Colorado · Nonprofit
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,921 to it, the largest being StriveTogether Inc ($3,383,432). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $744k
What Rocky Mountain Partnership Cradle to Career does
Mission
Rmps mission is to unite the community to support children and young people up to age 35 in achieving critical milestones from cradle to career. Our vision is that every child and young person, no matter their background or circumstances, is thriving and contributing to a vibrant, inclusive economy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Rocky Mountain Partnership Cradle to Career (rmp) is a group of decision makers and community members who are working together to ensure that every young person across our region has the opportunity to embark on a successful journey toward upward mobility. Guided by a globally recognized framework and data, we strive to create impactful, large- scale solutions. We break down silos within existing efforts, optimize regional resources, and advance impactful policies and strategies. Through diligent goal setting, data monitoring and accountability, we ensure significant and lasting change. We are a place-based partnership in colorados north metro region including adams county, arvada, aurora and broomfield. Together, were on a mission to help 71,000 more young people reach key cradle to career milestones on their path to upward mobility by 2030. Our work centers around four core strategies: empower target champions-target champions are groups or organizations that set amd commit to specific, measurable goals aligned with at least one cradle to career milestone. They determine how many more children and young people will achieve these outcomes as a direct result of their efforts.…
$855,200 spent$209,981 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $855,200.
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 2017 to 2018, from $466k to $848k (+82%).
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: 2019 27% · 2021 19% · 2022 7% · 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lisandra Gonzales
CEO
Board chair
Randy Roberts
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $52k → $600k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER’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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 82% · 2019 36% · 2020 84% · 2021 69% · 2022 70% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $322k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER: 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER?
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,921 to it, the largest being StriveTogether Inc ($3,383,432). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,177,921 in grants to ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER?
- StriveTogether Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,383,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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