Colorado Lions Foundation

Analysis

Colorado Lions Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Pueblo, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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 June 2024, Colorado Lions Foundation reported income of $154k and spending of $167k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $76k to $154k (+101%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Colorado Lions Foundation sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Downtown Farmville ($154k), Corner Community Center Inc ($154k) and Mundelein Community Connection ($154k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $716k, net assets of $2.1m.