Colorado · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,403,885 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($8,234,130). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 159
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Special Olympics Colorado does
Mission
The mission of Special Olympics Colorado (soco) is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendships with their families, other special olympics athletes, and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Special Olympics Colorado (soco) is a chapter of special olympics, a global organization that uses the simple platform of sports to empower individuals with intellectual disabilities (id). Since 1969, soco has been strengthening families, athletes and our community through sport and healthy living opportunities and now serves more than 20,000 athletes across the state. Not included in program expenses are $5,224,418 in donated services and facilities. These donated services include day passes to ski resorts used in connection with soco's winter sports programs, as well as services donated by coaches and referees.
$2,866,628 spent$38,726 earned by the program57% of program spendingSoco's unified champion school strategy is a school-based program that changes school climates to be accepting and inclusive of all students and all differences through unified sports, youth leadership and engaging all students.
$1,198,432 spent24% of program spendingSoco's young athletes program is an innovative sports play program for children ages 2-7 with intellectual disabilities as well as their typically developing peers, designed to promote inclusion while introducing them to the world of sport, with the goal of preparing them for future participation in special olympics sports training and competition.
$342,988 spent7% of program spendingSoco's other programs include inclusive health, which focuses on improving the physical and socialemotional well-being of people with intellectual disabilities by broadening access and quality of care in health systems; the athlete leadership program, including alps university, which empowers soco's athletes to creative meaningful societal change; and our volunteer training and management program.
$621,149 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,029,197.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.0M to $9.4M (+35%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO’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. 0 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
Megan Scremin
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.5M.
20 of 159 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 159 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 56% · 2020 60% · 2021 64% · 2022 55% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,403,885 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($8,234,130). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 159 organizations giving $15,403,885 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,234,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO 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 159 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