Colorado · Nonprofit
TELECOMPIONEERS
TELECOMPIONEERS (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,156 to it, the largest being AT&T FOUNDATION ($445,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $829k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Telecompioneers does
Mission
Pioneers is a network of volunteers who effect immediate, tangible change in local communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Telecompioneers provides tools for recruitment, development and retention of members. This included member recruitment drives, database (imis) to track membership, application (pals) to plan and conduct events, training, meetings and to plan projects, pioneers annual meetings, etc.
$10,342,381 spent99% of program spendingTelecompioneers provides volunteer community service projects in education, health and human services, environment, military, and life enrichment through thousands of volunteer hours in the community. Additionally, Telecompioneers provides grants to other nonprofit organizations throughout north america to support its mission.
$70,100 spentof which $70,100 as grants1% of program spendingAll other activities delivering immediate, tangible impact in the communities where we live.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,412,481.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $21M (+47%).
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 4% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of TELECOMPIONEERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Board chair
Patti Pace
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $77k → $49k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $4.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Telecompioneers Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TELECOMPIONEERS raised.
From the IRS filings of TELECOMPIONEERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
TELECOMPIONEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% 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 TELECOMPIONEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 82% · 2022 71% · 2023 91% — 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
40% of TELECOMPIONEERS'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
TELECOMPIONEERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $366k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TELECOMPIONEERS is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TELECOMPIONEERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $578 on record.
- NJ$508
- VT$70
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 TELECOMPIONEERS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Telecompioneers · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TELECOMPIONEERS: 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 TELECOMPIONEERS?
- TELECOMPIONEERS (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,156 to it, the largest being AT&T FOUNDATION ($445,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TELECOMPIONEERS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $829,156 in grants to TELECOMPIONEERS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TELECOMPIONEERS?
- AT&T FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TELECOMPIONEERS 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.
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 9 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