Colorado · Nonprofit
The Bold Foundation Inc
The Bold Foundation Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,294,727 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($367,679). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $110k
What The Bold Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Bold Foundation Inc strives to give everyone access to higher education. It uses its online platform to connect donors and students to scholarship opportunities. The platform creates a seamless way for donors to launch their own scholarships and fundraisers with the goal of funding education for students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Bold Foundation Inc.'s primary program is to provide direct financial support to students through donor-funded scholarships and education-related awards. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the foundation facilitated scholarship awards to more than 2,300 students, helping reduce financial barriers to education and support students in pursuing secondary and post-secondary education. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, The Bold Foundation Inc. Expanded its program services to accept unrestricted charitable donations. These funds support the foundation's overall mission by strengthening operational capacity, scaling scholarship programs, and increasing access to educational funding for underserved student populations. The Bold Foundation Inc. Also operates donor-directed scholarship and fundraising programs that enable individuals, families, corporations, and foundations to create and fund scholarships. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, approximately 7,400 donors participated in the platform and helped launch over 1,300 scholarships and over 500 fundraising campaigns in support of student education.
$5,567,050 spentof which $5,562,050 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,567,050.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $4.1M (+50%).
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.
97% of The Bold Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $41k → $180k.
14 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 The Bold 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
The Bold Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 The Bold Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 76% · 2022 45% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
87% of The Bold Foundation Inc'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 $168k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
The Bold Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Bold 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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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
- Boldorg Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Bold 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 The Bold Foundation Inc?
- The Bold Foundation Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,294,727 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($367,679). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Bold Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,294,727 in grants to The Bold Foundation Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Bold Foundation Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $367,679 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Bold 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.
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 29 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