Colorado · Nonprofit
SPACE FOR HUMANITY
SPACE FOR HUMANITY (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,185,717 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($1,565,199). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $929k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $869k
What Space for Humanity does
Mission
A social impact non-profit, Space for Humanity serves purpose-driven leaders through a sponsored spaceflight experience to create a profound shift in perspective, so that each citizen astronaut returns with a grander perspective to address our most intractable challenges and their solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Citizen astronaut program overview Space for Humanity believes that seeing earth from space can change how people think, lead, and act. This powerful shift in perspectiveknown as the overview effecthas inspired astronauts to create positive change on earth. Our goal is to make this experience accessible to more people, so it can benefit humanity and our planet. Through the worlds first citizen astronaut program, we sponsor exceptional leaders from around the globe to participate in a spaceflight experience. The program is open to applicants worldwide. Our leadership, community development, and impact (lcdi) program prepares participants before their flight, supports them as they process the experience, and trains them after they return. Citizen astronauts learn how to turn their spaceflight perspective into meaningful community leadership and advocacy on earth. In 2022, Space for Humanity sponsored two individuals who completed the program and successfully traveled to space.
$485,673 spent100% of program spendingThe inclusion council Space for Humanity is deeply committed to inclusion across all of humanity. Our inclusion council brings together a diverse group of leaders who help guide equitable practices across the organization, with a particular focus on the citizen astronaut program. In 2025, we evolved the structure of the inclusion council to be more action-oriented. Each year, council members work collaboratively on defined projects over a full calendar year, producing reports and recommendations that directly inform our programs and decision-making. Projects in 2025 include an audit on recruitment and selection for the citizen astronaut program and an internal dei audit of our organization helping ensure our work reflects best practices in equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. Also in 2025, Space for Humanity sponsored universal inclusion, a podcast dedicated to amplifying diverse voices across the space sector.
Ambassador program overview in 2025, Space for Humanity launched the overview ambassador program. Overview ambassadors are astronauts who have personally experienced the overview effect through their own spaceflight. They serve as advocates for Space for Humanitys mission by sharing their perspectives on space travel and the importance of expanding access to the overview effect for more people. Overview ambassadors help amplify the message of why citizen access to space matters and how the overview effect can inspire positive change on earth. This program is distinct from the citizen astronaut program. While Space for Humanity sponsors and prepares participants for spaceflight through the citizen astronaut program, the organization does not coordinate or sponsor the spaceflights of overview ambassadors. As of 2025, Space for Humanity has welcomed four exceptional individuals into the overview ambassador program.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $485,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $49k to $3.3M (+6555%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of SPACE FOR HUMANITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Ryan Kriser
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $225k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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: $1.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Club for the Future). These are real filings, and they are not money SPACE FOR HUMANITY raised.
From the IRS filings of SPACE FOR HUMANITY’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
SPACE FOR HUMANITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 SPACE FOR HUMANITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 70% · 2022 72% · 2023 44% — 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
25% of SPACE FOR HUMANITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
90% of SPACE FOR HUMANITY'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 $306k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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
SPACE FOR HUMANITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SPACE FOR HUMANITY
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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SPACE FOR HUMANITY: 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 SPACE FOR HUMANITY?
- SPACE FOR HUMANITY (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,185,717 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($1,565,199). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPACE FOR HUMANITY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,185,717 in grants to SPACE FOR HUMANITY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPACE FOR HUMANITY?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $1,565,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPACE FOR HUMANITY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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