Colorado · Nonprofit
UNAVCO INC
UNAVCO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,554 to it, the largest being EARTHSCOPE CONSORTIUM ($17,809). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $0
What Unavco Inc does
Mission
Unavco, a non-profit university-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Unavco operates a science support facility that advances academic research and education, specific to applications of modern geodesy to the geosciences. With core funding primarily from the national science foundation and also from nasa, services include provision of services to academic scientists and educators. These include (1) construction and engineering of gnss and borehole geophysics networks that also serve as a platform for other, colocated geophysical observations, (2) gnss and lidar geodetic instrumentation for shorter-term fielddeployments, (3) development and testing services to support integration of emerging geodetic technologies, (4) data management and access systems for gnss, lidar and synthetic aperture radar (sar), and (5) education and outreach services including short courses to support investigators using new technologies, support for integration of new geodetic applications into undergraduate curricula, student support, and outreach via social media.
$15,353,543 spentof which $480,800 as grants$841,557 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,353,543.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.2M to $0 (−100%).
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 94% · 2018 95% · 2019 93% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Ronni Grapenthin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of UNAVCO INC’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
UNAVCO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 UNAVCO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 77% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
UNAVCO INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
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.
Government funding UNAVCO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $99.6M on record.
- National Science Foundation$95.9M
- Department of the Interior$2.8M
- Department of Commerce$571k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$337k
- Department of Defense$96k
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 UNAVCO INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNAVCO INC: 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 UNAVCO INC?
- UNAVCO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,554 to it, the largest being EARTHSCOPE CONSORTIUM ($17,809). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNAVCO INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,554 in grants to UNAVCO INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNAVCO INC?
- EARTHSCOPE CONSORTIUM is the largest funder on record, with $17,809 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNAVCO INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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