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Colorado · Nonprofit
POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS (Colorado) is funded by 13 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $433,493 in grants to it, the largest being EL POMAR FOUNDATION ($138,163). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS is better cushioned than half of the 6,736 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,736 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
100% of POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$13k from 1 funders in 2024, up from $31k and 2 in 2017.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 63% · 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 60% · 2022 35% · 2023 52% · 2024 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
36% of POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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.
POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS is locally rooted: 89% of its grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
100% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 13funders 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. view filing