Colorado · Nonprofit
STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,239,441 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($10,301,662). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What State Higher Education Executive Officers Association does
Mission
The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (sheeo) is a national nonprofit organization formed in 1954 and incorporated in 1981 to assist state higher education executives and the states as they seek to develop and sustain excellent systems of higher education. Sheeo fulfills its mission by sponsoring national convenings, including an annual meeting, producing publications, and performing grant and project activities. Regular membership is open to the executive officers of statewide boards of post-secondary education. Sheeo is supported primarily through federal state dues and private foundation grants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grants: sheeo receives funds from granting agencies to provide work in higher education policy. During the fiscal year ending september 30, 2025, sheeo received grants from ecmc foundation supporting postsecondary data systems and a noncredit mobility academy. Gates foundation provided funding to create data communities of practice and to support fafsa simplification. Ascendium education solutions provided grants in support of noncredit mobility and justice-impacted students. Lumina foundation supported state authorization and mental health initiatives. Additional project support was provided by joyce foundation, kresge foundation, pwc charitable foundation, and strada education network.
$5,272,318 spent$529,322 earned by the program77% of program spendingSheeo projects: sheeo performs planned and ad hoc research on higher education policy to support sheeo member agencies. This includes travel expenses to attend national meetings and salaries to sheeo staff members working on higher education policy.
$1,023,638 spent15% of program spendingConferences: sheeo holds annual conferences for sheeo members and other leaders in higher education policy. Sheeo's annual meeting is tailored to support chief executives of state higher education systems. Sheeo's higher education policy conference is a policy and professional development meeting that brings together over 600 state executive officers, academic officers, finance officers, communications officers, information officers, and others working in higher education policy positions.
$593,864 spent$814,482 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,889,820.
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.
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 $7.0M to $9.6M (+37%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $534k → $3.3M.
1 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $18k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Association of Colleges and Universities). These are real filings, and they are not money STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION’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
STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 67% · 2019 67% · 2020 44% · 2021 36% · 2022 62% · 2023 23% — 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
44% of STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION'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
STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.
Organizations like STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
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
87% 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 1 related entity
- St Higher Education Policy Center · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION?
- STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,239,441 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($10,301,662). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $26,239,441 in grants to STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,301,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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