Colorado · Nonprofit
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,738,982 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,013,667). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center does
Mission
Improve the lives of people with ms and their families through care, support, education and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kadep: the king adult day enrichment program (kadep) serves younger adults who have moderate to severe disability caused by neurological illnesses or trauma. Kadep is designed to enhance wellness, maintain or improve functional status, and provide opportunities for socialization, personal development and enjoyment.
$1,308,304 spent$1,161,171 earned by the program56% of program spendingCommunity care and support: the rocky mountain ms center joined together with the university of colorado anchutz medical campus and university of colorado hospital authority (uchealth)to form the rocky mountain ms center at university of colorado partnership. Together, we serve the rocky mountain region through state-of-the-art patient care provided by ms fellowship-trained neurologists, education, support, and research. Ms center physicians also provide care to ms patients at the veterans administration hospital and denver health. --------------------- continued on schedule o ------------------------
$520,860 spentof which $21,161 as grants$750 earned by the program22% of program spendingEducation: the ms center conducts a variety of programs to educate those with multiple sclerosis, their families, the general public, and professionals providing services and care for individuals with ms. The ms center conducts a variety of public seminars and webinars, produces educational materials, and maintains an informative website at www.mscenter.org. The ms center publishes a quarterly magazine, "informs", which is available in both print and electronic versions, and distributes an electronic newsletter, "ems news", which features research information, opportunities to participate in ms clinical research, and information on upcoming events.
$300,666 spent$70,900 earned by the program13% of program spendingResearch: clinical trials: the ms center, through its partnership with rmmsc@cu, supports a variety of research projects designed to improve the lives of individuals living with multiple sclerosis and related neurological conditions. Faculty initiated clinical research fuels the search for safer and more effective treatments and combination therapies to treat ms. Brain and tissue bank: the ms center, through its partnership with rmmsc@cu, administers one of the world's largest fresh brain tissue banks. The tissue is retrieved, stored and provided to ms researchers from around the world, and is essential to the global effort to find the cause of and cure for ms. The ms center raises funds for research at the university of colorado. This research applies the clinical knowledge gained over the last 20 years and actively moves us toward improved therapies and earlier diagnosis.
$195,590 spentof which $67,756 as grants$9,600 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,325,420.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.0M to $4.4M (+11%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 9% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Gina Hensrud
CEO
Board chair
Michael Persichitte
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $582k → $361k.
18 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 22% · 2019 52% · 2020 36% · 2021 49% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — 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
40% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
54% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER'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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M 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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 390 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER?
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,738,982 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,013,667). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $4,738,982 in grants to ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,013,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER 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 69 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing