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THE MARIGOLD PROJECT

THE MARIGOLD PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,219 to it, the largest being PENINSULA ARTS GUILD ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$191k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$244k
Net assets
$104k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($221k) Expenses 100 ($221k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2019 Revenue 179 ($395k) Expenses 171 ($377k) Net assets 314 ($23k)2020 Revenue 117 ($259k) Expenses 97 ($214k) Net assets 915 ($68k)2021 Revenue 188 ($415k) Expenses 162 ($359k) Net assets 1677 ($125k)2022 Revenue 322 ($712k) Expenses 301 ($665k) Net assets 2307 ($171k)2023 Revenue 267 ($590k) Expenses 262 ($579k) Net assets 2500 ($186k)2024 Revenue 87 ($191k) Expenses 122 ($269k) Net assets 1403 ($104k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (87)Expenses (122)Net assets (1403)Peer revenue range

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 $229k to $104k (−54%).

$51k
$78k
$107k
$178k
$171k
$229k
$104k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Nathaniel Rateliff

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $27k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MARIGOLD PROJECT’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 MARIGOLD PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 MARIGOLD PROJECT.

72%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 93% — 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

THE MARIGOLD PROJECT draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.

CA
CO
TN
LA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

THE MARIGOLD PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Months of reserve4.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like THE MARIGOLD PROJECT

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

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04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MARIGOLD PROJECT: 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 MARIGOLD PROJECT?
THE MARIGOLD PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,219 to it, the largest being PENINSULA ARTS GUILD ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MARIGOLD PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $244,219 in grants to THE MARIGOLD PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MARIGOLD PROJECT?
PENINSULA ARTS GUILD is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MARIGOLD PROJECT 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 6 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