Colorado · Nonprofit
The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs
The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,500 to it, the largest being Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau ($115,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $873k
What The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs does
Mission
Working to ensure that Downtown Colorado Springs serves as the economic, civic, and cultural heart of Colorado Springs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
More than 200 businesses and organizations were provided technical assistance, marketing support, and customized orientations, including the distribution of 36 press releases that reached out an estimated audience of nearly 90,000 through trusted local and regional media outlets.Hosted 11 ribbon cuttings to introduce new business to the Downtown community and elevate their visibility, building connections and early momentum.Connected with hundreds of stakeholders through engaging presentations about Downtown- building awareness and enthusiasm among diverse groups from real estate professionals to incoming Colorado College freshmen, civic groups, urban planning students, and K-12 learners.Downtown Partnership staff testified at the state capital in support of construction defects reform legislation and in opposition to proposals that would limit Enterprise Zone tax credits for businesses, while broadly advancing the Chamber & EDC's pro-business, pro-growth agenda.The 28th Annual Downtown Breakfast hosted for the fourth year on the floor at Ed Robson Arena at Colorado College reached full capacity with 700 attendees. Hosted a member forum that gave participants the opportunity to…
$1,094,313 spent$1,166,897 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,094,313.
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 $720k to $913k (+27%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2022 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs’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 Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Colorado Springs Community Ventures Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs: 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 Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs?
- The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,500 to it, the largest being Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau ($115,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $125,500 in grants to The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs?
- Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau is the largest funder on record, with $115,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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