Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Endowment Fund

Analysis

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Endowment Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Colorado SPGS, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending April 2024, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Endowment Fund reported income of $1.3m and spending of $443k, leaving 67% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2024, income grew from $1.2m to $1.3m (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 209%. Over the whole period it spent 31% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Endowment Fund sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Four Way Community Foundation ($1.3m), South Lake County Community Services Inc ($1.3m) and United Way of Decatur and Mid Illinois ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. At year end it held assets of $10.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $10.3m.