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SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC

SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,739,883 to it, the largest being DANIELS FUND ($601,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$4.4M
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado Inc does

Mission

Seeds of hope of northern colorado, inc. Exists to cultivate minds and hearts for christ by striving to make a transformative catholic education financially accessible to any family who seeks it. Continued on schedule o.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Mission: seeds of hope (soh) is dedicated to making transformative catholic education financially accessible to low-income families. Believing that education is the key to a brighter future, soh provides "hope scholarships" to help families overcome financial barriers and send their children to k-8 catholic schools. Through tuition assistance, grants, and operating support, soh supports catholic k-8 schools and serves low-income, high- minority populations within the archdiocese of denver in northern colorado. See schedule o for continuation.

    $3,198,839 spentof which $2,815,890 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,198,839.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($736k) Net assets 100 ($750k)2019 Revenue 154 ($2.3M) Expenses 289 ($2.1M) Net assets 123 ($926k)2020 Revenue 196 ($2.9M) Expenses 290 ($2.1M) Net assets 230 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 200 ($3.0M) Expenses 320 ($2.4M) Net assets 316 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 207 ($3.1M) Expenses 341 ($2.5M) Net assets 394 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 326 ($4.9M) Expenses 346 ($2.5M) Net assets 707 ($5.3M)2024 Revenue 213 ($3.2M) Expenses 455 ($3.3M) Net assets 688 ($5.2M)2025 Revenue 181 ($2.7M) Expenses 494 ($3.6M) Net assets 590 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (494)Net assets (590)

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 $3.0M to $5.3M (+79%).

$823k
$953k
$1.9M
$2.4M
$3.0M
$5.3M
$5.2M
$4.7M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$763k
’18
$176k
’19
$798k
’20
$643k
’21
$590k
’22
$2.3M
’23
−$161k
’24
−$922k
’25
8.1
months of
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.

Board chair

John Zimmerman

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1413151615151414
Joined·+2+2+2+2+2+1+1
No longer listed·3013221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $29k → $708k.

12 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC’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

SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

58% 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 SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC.

22%
largest funder
46%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 39% · 2020 43% · 2021 32% · 2022 23% · 2023 32% — 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

45% of SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

57% of SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MN
NY
CO
MO
VA
AZ

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 6%Fundraising 6%

Governance

13
board members
85%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Archdiocese of Denver · exempt
  • Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC?
SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,739,883 to it, the largest being DANIELS FUND ($601,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,739,883 in grants to SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC?
DANIELS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $601,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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