Colorado · Nonprofit
USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC
USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,265 to it, the largest being HUGH AND MICHELLE HARVEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $290k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Used Car Dealers of Colorado Charity Fund Inc does
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations described under I.r.c. Section 501(c)(3). The corporation's purpose is to represent the goodwill of independent used car dealers to help all colorado communities with aid, scholarships and support in order to make a positive difference with families of colorado.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Eleven scholarships of $2,500 each paid to recipients attending aims community college, brown university, colorado state university, platt college, pueblo community college, tarleton state university, the university of texas at tyler, university of colorado boulder (2), western colorado university, and western texas college.
$27,500 spentof which $27,500 as grants16% of program spendingCash donations to colorado based 501(c)(3) entities
$106,850 spentof which $106,850 as grants60% of program spendingCash donations to individuals.
$42,500 spentof which $42,500 as grants24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,850.
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 $300k to $1.4M (+382%).
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.
94% of USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
David Cardella
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $106.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND 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
USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265 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
USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Independent Automobile Dealers Association of Colorado · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND 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 USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC?
- USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,265 to it, the largest being HUGH AND MICHELLE HARVEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,265 in grants to USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND INC?
- HUGH AND MICHELLE HARVEY FAMILY FOUNDATION 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 USED CAR DEALERS OF COLORADO CHARITY FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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