Colorado · Nonprofit
UNION COLONY SCHOOLS
UNION COLONY SCHOOLS (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016 to it, the largest being Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION ($825). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Union Colony Schools does
Mission
Union colony school provides a college preparatory public education to students grades k-12.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Union colony school involves students in educational experiences that prepare them to excel in college or other post secondary educational endeavors, by providing a cross disciplinary exchange of knowledge among core subject areas including fine arts, international languages, language arts, mathematics, science and social studies, along with a rigorous and challenging approach to thinking and learning, a strong focus on the processes and products of problem solving, and an environment which fosters connections with teachers, other students, and the community. Union Colony Schools served approximately 661 students in the 2024-2025 school year.
$9,143,100 spent$9,534,900 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,143,100.
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 2017 to 2018, from $14M to $25M (+84%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 12% · 2020 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 20% · 2024 14% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of UNION COLONY SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $57 → $580.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 UNION COLONY SCHOOLS’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
UNION COLONY SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
100% of UNION COLONY SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191 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.
Against its field
UNION COLONY SCHOOLS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNION COLONY SCHOOLS
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Union Colony Charter School Bldg Co · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION COLONY SCHOOLS: 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 UNION COLONY SCHOOLS?
- UNION COLONY SCHOOLS (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016 to it, the largest being Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION ($825). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION COLONY SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,016 in grants to UNION COLONY SCHOOLS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION COLONY SCHOOLS?
- Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION COLONY SCHOOLS 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