Colorado · Nonprofit
Small Choices Foundation
Small Choices Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,511 to it, the largest being ELLEN BRACKEN WIESE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $45k
What Small Choices Foundation does
Mission
The Small Choices Foundation is dedicated to improving the cancer journey for adult patients and their caregivers by empowering them with the ability to choose the kind of help they need during their hospital stay and providing the opportunity to join others facing similar paths. Our programs include Isolation Relief; bringing in groceries and lunches and doing laundry to those inpatient with no support Survival Kits; patients can chose from items to make inpatient stay easier; Outpatient support gift cards for gas and groceries and providing blankets and toiletries for those facing a surprise admission Hospital support supplying patient comfort items to inpatient and outpatient cancer floors Patient gatherings and Holiday support fulfilling the wish lists of patients with families over the holidays.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Survival Kits: providing a duffel bag complete with blanket hat socks toiletries activities and water bottle and allowing selected participants to select giftcards and items from our patient website totaling $500. 125 participants.
$0 spentOutpatient supplies; includes $100 gift cards for gas or groceries to select patients PICC sleeves and shower covers blankets and toiletries for unexpected admissions headphones sleep masks and water supplements. 230 participants
$0 spentInpatient supplies; extra clothing night lights blankets toiletries drink supplements and pillowcases for 2 hospital BMT units totaling 60 beds throughout the year
$0 spentQuarterly patient gatherings. Holiday gift bags distributed to 100 patients in addition to 15 families with Christmas lists fulfilled. Welcome boxes placed ont the beds BMT beds with silk pillowcase and dazbog gift cards
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $74k to $54k (−27%).
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.
100% of Small Choices Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jessica Markus
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $181 → $2k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Small Choices Foundation’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
Small Choices Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 Small Choices Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
Small Choices Foundation draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Small Choices Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Small Choices Foundation
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Small Choices Foundation: 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 Small Choices Foundation?
- Small Choices Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,511 to it, the largest being ELLEN BRACKEN WIESE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Small Choices Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $25,511 in grants to Small Choices Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Small Choices Foundation?
- ELLEN BRACKEN WIESE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Small Choices Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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