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Raptor Education Foundation

Raptor Education Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,296 to it, the largest being LANCE RAMSAY RAYMOND FOUNDATION ($15,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$182k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$-154769
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Raptor Education Foundation does

Mission

Support Education of raptors to the publ

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Preservation of ecological diversity; lectures and consulting plus related printing, photography, and production costs of promotional and educational material.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($104k)2018 Revenue 130 ($142k) Expenses 112 ($116k)2019 Revenue 116 ($126k) Expenses 118 ($123k)2020 Revenue 110 ($120k) Expenses 110 ($115k)2021 Revenue 137 ($149k) Expenses 94 ($98k)2022 Revenue 114 ($125k) Expenses 179 ($186k)2023 Revenue 93 ($101k) Expenses 147 ($153k)2024 Revenue 158 ($173k) Expenses 152 ($158k)2025 Revenue 166 ($182k) Expenses 155 ($162k)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (155)Peer revenue range

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 $59k to $5k (−92%).

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$6k
$55k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Raptor Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$25k
’18
$4k
’19
$6k
’20
$52k
’21
−$61k
’22
−$52k
’23
$15k
’24
$20k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $8k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Raptor Education Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Raptor Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 60% — 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.

Where its funders are

94% of Raptor Education Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MN
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Raptor Education Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Raptor Education Foundation: 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 Raptor Education Foundation?
Raptor Education Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,296 to it, the largest being LANCE RAMSAY RAYMOND FOUNDATION ($15,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Raptor Education Foundation have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $33,296 in grants to Raptor Education Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Raptor Education Foundation?
LANCE RAMSAY RAYMOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Raptor Education Foundation 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.

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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 4 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