Colorado · Nonprofit
PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY
PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,022,664 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,277,189). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Pikes Peak United Way does
Mission
To enhance youth success and family stability in the pikes peak region by leading and lifting the most vulnerable in our community with mentorship, life resources and real job opportunities. Our signature programs (continued on sch o) (continued) and partner agencies intently focus on connecting youth and their families to resources at the beginning of their life journey to ensure access to fundamental needs of food, shelter and learning resources for all. #strongertogether
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community investment - ppuw's community investment fund awards grants to local non-profits that are most efficiently and effectively addressing the issues most pressing to our community. In the last year, we provided grants totaling $550,000 to 27 programs at 27 local agencies. Funded agencies provide us with detailed financial information as well as program results which our volunteers review to ensure Pikes Peak United Way funds are being used effectively. We have a separate fund that also provides grants to local non-profits that have experienced some form of unanticipated emergency that will have a significant impact on their ability to serve the public if they do not receive some form of relief. In the last year, we have provided $63,000 of emergency funds to local non-profits. (continued on sch o)(continued) as part of our funds distribution processes, we also use information from our 211 service to help inform our decisions on what programs are most needed in the community. In addition to awarding local grants we also disburse donor contributions to non-profits that have been selected specifically by donors for support. For the year ended june 2025, donors contributed over…
$1,934,330 spentof which $1,892,504 as grants51% of program spendingFamily success center - the mission of the Pikes Peak United Way family success center is to serve the entire family and empower community members to become financially stable, grow, and accomplish their goals.the family success center is a new initiative, partnering with harrison school district 2 in southeast colorado springs, and using the former pikes peak elementary school to provide a common space that brings together families looking to improve their lives with local non-profits and services that can provide them the support and training they need to accomplish that goal. The programs that will be established include job readiness and training programs, ged/esl adult education classes, financial readiness for children and adults, (continued on sch o) (continued) a health clinic and benefits enrollment services, parenting classes, summer camp programming for children, career navigation, a child care center for drop in child care, entrepreneur mentorship, life coaching to increase family stability, utilities, rent and mortgage assistance and eviction prevention, free after school sports, and a free grocery store. For the year ended june 2025, the family success center…
$1,126,826 spentof which $29,338 as grants$84,146 earned by the program30% of program spending211 information and referral - our 2-1-1 program is an essential part of our community, whether you need helpfinding food, housing, utility assistance, filing your taxes, childcare, crisis counseling or substance abuse treatment. For the year ended june 2025, 2-1-1 provided referrals to over 34,000 contacts who reached out for assistance in our 12-county service area including el paso, teller, alamosa, conejos, costilla, chaffee, cheyenne, lincoln, mineral, park, rio grande, and saguache counties. Our 2-1-1 team also answered almost half of the state's total vita (volunteer income tax assistance) calls, ensuring that most families were able to file their taxes for free in order to get their qualified refund for some much-needed financial relief. (continued on sch o)(continued) 2-1-1 helps residents from the 12 counties not only to access lifesaving resources, but also serves as the extended arm of colorado springs and el paso county during a disaster response, coordinating with the pikes peak region office of emergency management to provide information and referral resources to local individuals in the event of emergencies.
$469,522 spent$203,445 earned by the program12% of program spendingCommunity impact - impact our impact department addresses a number of needs in el paso and teller counties through several different initiatives; dolly parton imagination library provides books to youth 0-5 years old with 1 age-appropriate book mailed each month to the child's mailing address. There are currently over 7,400 children enrolled in the program and we have distributed over 640,000 books during the life of this program. Our food distribution program provides healthy meals to low-income individuals and families needing food assistance, staffing a distribution site at mitchell high school. In the last year we served over 7,000 families with over 300,000 pounds of healthy, free groceries in el paso county. We also run a vita program (volunteer income tax assistance) that provides free federal and state tax income preparation for individuals earning less than $66,000 annually. Last year our vita volunteers contributed over 4,000 hours in federal and state tax return preparation. We prepared almost 2,000 income tax returns, and filed over $3,000,000 of refunds due to our clients. We also manage a volunteer program that aligns volunteers with local opportunities, including…
$228,009 spent$5,149 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,758,687.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.9M to $11M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 4% · 2023 23% · 2024 36% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dan Nordberg
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $422k → $1.0M.
17 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.7M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mile High United Way Inc); $25k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Pikes Peak United Way). These are real filings, and they are not money PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY raised.
From the IRS filings of PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 22% · 2019 32% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 29% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
49% of PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.9M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
- Department of the Treasury$48k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY?
- PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,022,664 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,277,189). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $6,022,664 in grants to PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,277,189 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing