Colorado · Nonprofit
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,308 to it, the largest being HOWARD P COLHOUN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($485,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $397k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $250k
What Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc does
Mission
To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Catapult, our longest-running program, is an investment of capacity building support to help create mighty changes inside the investee nonprofits with which we work. The investment is determined by the needs of the selected nonprofit. Our support can consist of cash grants, consulting, training, resources, and more. Since 2001, dozens of nonprofit organizations have completed our catapult program. The engagements have lasted from 1-5 years and have consisted of countless volunteer consulting hours and 1.7 million in cash grants. In 2022 we shifted our investment focus to bipoc led organizations who also serve those communities. We will be adding additional focus areas annually to support those organizations and communities who are traditionally underfunded.
$94,793 spentof which $36,500 as grants43% of program spendingBoulder county is home to thousands of organizations that support our community in countless ways. To ensure that local nonprofits have the help they need to thrive, our partner driven resource teams support short-term consulting projects that are tailored to both the nonprofits needs and our partners areas of expertise. Our resource teams include board development and recruitment strategies, fundraising/development strategies, leadership development, technology, and strategic planning.
$88,133 spent$56,512 earned by the program40% of program spendingDesigned for nonprofit leaders, invested leaders sessions are facilitated peer to peer discussion groups intended to promote knowledge development, and cultivate and deepen relationships. Designed for nonprofit leaders, invested leaders sessions are facilitated peer to peer discussion groups intended to promote knowledge development, and cultivate and deepen relationships.
$39,170 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,096.
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 2019 to 2020, from $141k to $210k (+49%).
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.
86% of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jorge Mendez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $118k → $193k.
11 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY 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
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 38% · 2019 30% · 2020 28% · 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 39% — 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
57% of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
64% of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC'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. Of the $548k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $979k 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.
Against its field
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC?
- SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,308 to it, the largest being HOWARD P COLHOUN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($485,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,526,308 in grants to SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC?
- HOWARD P COLHOUN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $485,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY 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 2017–2025), 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