Colorado · Nonprofit
THE COLORADO COLLEGE
THE COLORADO COLLEGE (Colorado) receives grants from 349 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,577,523 to it, the largest being SSB Charitable Foundation ($10,475,000). 217 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $304M
- Funders on record
- 349
- Grants received
- $98M
- Net assets
- $1.4B
What The Colorado College does
Mission
At colorado college our goal is to provide the finest liberal arts education in the country. Drawing upon the adventurous spirit of the rocky mountain west, we challenge students, one course at a time, to develop those habits of intellect and imagination that will prepare them for learning and leadership throughout their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide undergraduate and master-of-arts in teaching degree programs to approximately 2,100 students
$226,155,173 spentof which $60,636,960 as grants$183,712,855 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $226,155,173.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2B to $1.4B (+17%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of THE COLORADO COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% 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.
Board chair
Jeff Breakenridge Keller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 101 funders to 139 funders, grant income rose $6.1M → $9.8M.
52 of 349 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COLORADO COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 349 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 COLORADO COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% 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
29% 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 COLORADO COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 21% · 2019 14% · 2020 11% · 2021 35% · 2022 15% · 2023 14% — 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
47% of THE COLORADO COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
THE COLORADO COLLEGE draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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 COLORADO COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding THE COLORADO COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.8M on record.
- Department of Education$5.7M
- National Science Foundation$4.2M
- Department of Energy$410k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$272k
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
- Department of Defense$71k
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 THE COLORADO COLLEGE
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
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Dale Street Properties LLC · disregarded
- A Barney Trust · exempt
- Carlton Trust · exempt
- Faculty Salary Fund - Hawley · exempt
- Jackson Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COLORADO COLLEGE: 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 COLORADO COLLEGE?
- THE COLORADO COLLEGE (Colorado) receives grants from 349 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,577,523 to it, the largest being SSB Charitable Foundation ($10,475,000). 217 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLORADO COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 349 organizations giving $97,577,523 in grants to THE COLORADO COLLEGE, 217 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLORADO COLLEGE?
- SSB Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLORADO COLLEGE 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 349 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