Columbine Community Foundation for Grand County

Analysis

Columbine Community Foundation for Grand County is a registered charity in United States, based in Winter Park, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1997, 29 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 publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Columbine Community Foundation for Grand County reported income of $2.9m and spending of $2.0m, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $2.9m (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Columbine Community Foundation for Grand County sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Burton Family Foundation ($2.9m), Tiferet Rabbi Akiva Inc ($2.9m) and Northern Nevada Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc ($2.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $100k (5.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $121k. At year end it held assets of $10.5m against liabilities of $5.9m, net assets of $4.6m. It reported 6 employees.