Colorado · Nonprofit
Zealous Schools
Zealous Schools (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,000 to it, the largest being THE HAROLD & MARY LOUISE SHAW FOUNDATION ($325,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $646k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $595k
- Net assets
- $-56730
What Zealous Schools does
Mission
Zealous Schools is a non-profit corporation and shall operate exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. Zealous Schools is an independent micro-school community founded in Eagle, Colorado.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
We enroll students in grades 6-8 who are seeking an alternative education experience. As such, many of our students have not found their full potential within the existing offerings of public, private, or charter schools. Zealous delivers this education with a 5:1 ratio of students to staff. Our staff are referred to as academic coaches, and facilitate the student journey through a blended model which harnesses the latest and most powerful online curricular resources.
$879,713 spentof which $86,217 as grants$627,745 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $879,713.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $167k to $28k (−83%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $130k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Zealous 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
Zealous Schools leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 Zealous Schools.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 53% · 2022 45% · 2023 85% — 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
93% of Zealous Schools's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k 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.
Organizations like Zealous 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Zealous 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 Zealous Schools?
- Zealous Schools (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,000 to it, the largest being THE HAROLD & MARY LOUISE SHAW FOUNDATION ($325,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Zealous Schools have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $595,000 in grants to Zealous Schools, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Zealous Schools?
- THE HAROLD & MARY LOUISE SHAW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Zealous 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), 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