Colorado · Nonprofit
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $124 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($124). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $124
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library does
Mission
The Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library is an educational and literacy organization that has been established to (1) promote and facilitate the pursuit of stamp collecting as a hobby at all levels (2) provide a location for a central depository of philatelic literature and related items to be available for research by all intersted people (3) to serve as an information center for philately and postal history in the rocky mountain region (4) to provide, or arrange for, basic instruction in the hobby of philately and/or instruction in the more specialized areas of stamp collecting using local expertise (5) to serve as a depository for philatelic slide or video programs for use by local stamp clubs also to provide a card reference file of good programs available to clubs by local philatelists (6) to serve as a resource for educational institutions interested in the hobby of stamp collecting (7) to serve as a place where those interested in stamps or postal history can meet to discuss common
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Publication of newsletter (scribblings) on a semi-monthly basis, provides a central depository of philatelic literature for research by students and collectors (approximately 2,400 visitors annually), monthly seminars on all phases of philately for public school classes and scout units
$164,268 spentof which $10,000 as grants$128,429 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,268.
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 2023 to 2024, from $974k to $1.8M (+83%).
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.
90% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $32 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PHILATELIC LIBRARY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124 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.
Against its field
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY: 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 PHILATELIC LIBRARY?
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $124 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($124). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $124 in grants to ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $124 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILATELIC LIBRARY 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 1 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