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THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC

THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,439,295 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($603,436). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2024
98
Funders on record
$4.4M
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
62/98 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 132 ($2.0M) Expenses 114 ($1.5M) Net assets 132 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 198 ($3.0M) Expenses 138 ($1.9M) Net assets 181 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 150 ($2.3M) Expenses 160 ($2.2M) Net assets 197 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 152 ($2.3M) Expenses 180 ($2.4M) Net assets 191 ($3.4M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (152)Expenses (180)Net assets (191)

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 27% · 2021 17% · 2022 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$174k
20
$472k
21
$1.2M
22
$132k
23
$124k
24
2.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $278k → $788k.

19 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)42% 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 BUDDY PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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

THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

46% 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 BUDDY PROGRAM INC.

14%
largest funder
27%
top three
~21
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 22% · 2019 13% · 2020 10% · 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 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

52% of THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

57% of THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
AL
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 98 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 10%Fundraising 23%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BUDDY PROGRAM 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC?
THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,439,295 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($603,436). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC have?
IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $4,439,295 in grants to THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC?
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $603,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BUDDY PROGRAM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 98funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing