Colorado · Nonprofit
SOS OUTREACH
SOS OUTREACH (Colorado) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,782,892 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,393,306). 59 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
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Sos Outreach does
Mission
Sos Outreach changes young lives, building character and leadership in underserved kids through mentoring outdoors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sos Outreach is a youth development non-profit that uses year-round, outdoor sports to engage underserved students in long-term mentor based relationships. Sos's curriculum integrates outdoor experiential learning, character development, community service, values-based leadership development, social justice advocacy, and peer mentoring. Through each of our programs, sos participants are encouraged to transform themselves and others for the better using our six core values of courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom, compassion, and humility. During the fiscal year, sos served 3,258 participants across 15 communities and 25 mountain resorts.
$157,158 spent$99,435 earned by the program8% of program spendingSos Outreach is a youth mentorship nonprofit that utilizes the power of skiing and snowboarding to connect youth to opportunity. Since 1993, we've created access & opportunity for 80,000+ kids, ensuring that every child, regardless of socioeconomic barriers, can thrive. Sos' multi-year curriculum integrates outdoor experiential learning, character development, community service, values-based leadership development, social emotional learning, and peer mentoring. Through each of our programs, sos participants are encouraged to discover their full potential using our six core values of courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom, compassion, and humility. During the fiscal year, sos served 3,483 participants across 15 communities and 23 mountain resorts. Sos Outreach received $5,547,037 in-kind donations of lift tickets, rental equipment, and instruction from mountain resorts nationally to provide programs for 3,483 participants. Participants complete programs from the one-day snowcore experience to the multi-year, mentor program through these donations.
$1,820,618 spent$112,376 earned by the program92% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,977,776.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+42%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 41% · 2020 47% · 2021 52% · 2022 35% · 2023 22% · 2024 45% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SOS OUTREACH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Seth Ehrlich
CEO
Board chair
Tod Francis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $212k → $1.1M.
20 of 88 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 SOS OUTREACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 funders by total. 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
SOS OUTREACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
77% 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 SOS OUTREACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 46% · 2019 21% · 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% — 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
51% of SOS OUTREACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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 SOS OUTREACH'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
SOS OUTREACH is better cushioned than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOS OUTREACH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Justice$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOS OUTREACH
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOS OUTREACH: 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 SOS OUTREACH?
- SOS OUTREACH (Colorado) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,782,892 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,393,306). 59 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 SOS OUTREACH have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $6,782,892 in grants to SOS OUTREACH, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOS OUTREACH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,393,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOS OUTREACH 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 88 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing