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THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION

THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$136k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$145k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What The Nick Bales Btr Foundation does

Program

  1. To provide teenage mental health awarness and teen suicide prevention

    $81,522 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($24k) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2021 Revenue 124 ($30k) Expenses 268 ($15k) Net assets 143 ($50k)2022 Revenue 72 ($17k) Expenses 148 ($8k) Net assets 169 ($59k)2023 Revenue 176 ($43k) Expenses 575 ($32k) Net assets 199 ($69k)2024 Revenue 321 ($78k) Expenses 988 ($56k) Net assets 262 ($91k)2025 Revenue 560 ($136k) Expenses 1449 ($82k) Net assets 418 ($145k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (560)Expenses (1449)Net assets (418)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 2024 to 2025, from $91k to $145k (+59%).

$35k
$50k
$59k
$69k
$91k
$145k
202020212022202320242025
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed334444
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION’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 NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve2.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION: 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 NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION?
THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,500 in grants to THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION?
Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION 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 3 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