Colorado · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC
SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,387 to it, the largest being NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE ($175,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $373k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Southwest Improvement Council Inc does
Mission
Health and human services, housing counseling, youth education and recreation, elder services and minority outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Older adults, age 60+ programming: daily (m-f) activities include games, exercise and educational opportunities designed to increase overall health and well being, as well as to develop new skills in areas that increase older adults ability to live active lives and age in place. Activities and educational topics include technology, plant care, woodworking, arts, sewing and crafts, while exercise instruction centers on low-impact yoga and targeted movement. All programming is focused on enhancing social, emotional, and physcial well-being. A nutritious hot lunch is also provided m-f which creates additional opportunities for socialization. This program area includes a monthly gathering of area native american elders, as well as asian american older adults where a nutritious hot meal is served, along with the opportunity to share in traditional cultural activities and socialization. Numbers served in 2025 = 8,000.
$446,641 spent$172,891 earned by the program83% of program spendingIn collaboration with government agencies, swic provides housing counseling to assist individuals with creating financial plans, assessing loan programs and also assist with home retention loan modification for clients at risk of foreclosure. In addition, home buyer education classes are offered monthly to assist potential buyers in understanding mortgages, homeownership and options for down-payment assistance. Numbers served in 2025 = 400.
$91,139 spent$42,901 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $537,780.
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 $349k to $2.7M (+665%).
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: 2017 62% · 2018 62% · 2019 60% · 2020 54% · 2021 53% · 2022 47% · 2023 12% · 2024 43% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Donna Zimmerman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $0 → $195k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Southwest Neighborhood Housing Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 54% · 2022 64% · 2023 67% — 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
20% of SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
88% of SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Swic Properties LLC · disregarded
- Southwest Neighborhood Housing · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC?
- SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,387 to it, the largest being NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE ($175,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $373,387 in grants to SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC?
- NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL 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.
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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 10 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