Colorado · Nonprofit
SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC
SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038 to it, the largest being EL POMAR FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Space Infrastructure Foundation Inc does
Mission
Education on, development of, and advocacy for open technical standards for space systems for the betterment of humanity. Education, development and advocacy promote the application of open standards for space systems and their use.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
SIF supports the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the Office of Space Commerce and industry at large in the development of open space standards. In 2024 emphasis was for Space Exploration, Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO), On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) and future space science programs. NASA DARPA, DoD, DoC and industry believe RPO and OOS, and open standards are emergent commercial mission areas and that the US can become a dominant commercial provider. SIF provides expertises on the standards development process within national and international standards development organizations, and recommends consensus positions in the development of industry consensus with US and international industry.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThrough he Office of Space Commerce and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, SIF has accepted a Grant. The purpose of the Grant is to conduct research on the utility of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) Reference Architecture for Space Data Systems (RASDS), updated and published in December 2024.
$24,493 spentof which $24,493 as grants100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,493.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $129 to $18k (+13762%).
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.
5% of SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Frederick A Slane
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION 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
SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 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
SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 479 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Department of Commerce$200k
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 SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC: 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 INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC?
- SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038 to it, the largest being EL POMAR FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,038 in grants to SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION INC?
- EL POMAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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