Colorado · Nonprofit
SHADES OF BLUE
SHADES OF BLUE (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Janus Henderson Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $-27392
What Shades of Blue does
Mission
To inform youth of aerospace and aviation careers in the stem/steam fields.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
2025 accomplishments: on 02/21/25, Shades of Blue (sobi) attended the pin-on wings ceremony at united airlines sobi student member f/o mychol alexander. We also attended the women in aviation conference on 03/29/25, with over 500 young women working to become future pilots. 4/09/25 captain willie lee daniels ii was invited to speak to educators for the teacher liaison program at the national space symposium educator event at the discovery center in colorado springs. 05/03/25 sobi hosted 130 students from philadelphia. Maryland eastern shore and the dc, maryland, and virginia area at the martin state airport in maryland. 05/21/25 sobi hosted 75 students from verdugo hills and northridge high school at the lax flightpath museum with the united airlines lax chief pilots office, porpoise robotics. Texas instruments and quantum drones. 05/30/25 attended the astronaut hall of fame induction ceremony for astronauts dr bernard harris and dr. Peggy whitson at the kennedy space center. 07/12/25 huntsville, alabama, induction ceremony of lieutenant commander diallo wallace into the space camp hall of fame. 08/06/25 sobi hosted a booth at the organization of black aerospace professionals…
$6,209 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,209.
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 2022 to 2023, from $10k to $60k (+486%).
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.
58% of SHADES OF BLUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SHADES OF BLUE’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 SHADES OF BLUE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SHADES OF BLUE has grown faster than half of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SHADES OF BLUE
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.
Public support
100%
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 SHADES OF BLUE: 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 SHADES OF BLUE?
- SHADES OF BLUE (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Janus Henderson Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHADES OF BLUE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to SHADES OF BLUE.
- Who is the largest funder of SHADES OF BLUE?
- The Janus Henderson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHADES OF BLUE 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