Colorado · Nonprofit
THE PEAK SCHOOL
THE PEAK SCHOOL (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,768 to it, the largest being THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ($76,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $-44062
What The Peak School does
Mission
The Peak School seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their roles as local and global citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The academic environment at The Peak School is challenging, thought provoking, engaging, and authentic. We aim to prepare students to think critically to analyze information, to communicate clearly, and to question themselves and others. Our dynamic faculty pushes students to consider knowledge in new ways and to reach beyond the usual in their demonstrations of concept mastery. At peak, we accomplish this goal in four primary ways: essential questions. Each year, The Peak School's curriculum is guided by one central question. This question unites the disciplines, providing a framework for students to understand concepts across mutiple subject areas. Immersion projects. Students complete in-depth research, technology, portfolio, or service learning projects at three distinct points in their peak school career, earning their movement from one division to the next. These projects encourage intellectual risk-taking, project management, and strength in communication skills. Integrated teaching. At the middle-school level, The Peak School teachers use critical thought through multi-subject teaching in their area of expertise. Students spend longer periods of time in each class.…
$1,306,928 spentof which $350,354 as grants$1,588,436 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,306,928.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $3.1M (+8%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of THE PEAK SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $19k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 PEAK SCHOOL’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 PEAK SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 PEAK SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 60% · 2022 49% · 2023 52% — 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
86% of THE PEAK SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PEAK SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PEAK SCHOOL
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PEAK SCHOOL: 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 PEAK SCHOOL?
- THE PEAK SCHOOL (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,768 to it, the largest being THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ($76,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE PEAK SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $192,768 in grants to THE PEAK SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PEAK SCHOOL?
- THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $76,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PEAK SCHOOL 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 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