Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$1,755,322

Total expenses

$1,695,374

Contributions and grants received

$0

Grants paid

$710,000

Program service revenue

$1,680,566

Investment income

$74,756

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$2,802,639

Total liabilities, end of year

$799,899

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,002,740

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,684,201

Management and general expenses

$11,173

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,684,201

Program services were 99.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• 2025 ACCOMPLISHMENTS: IN 2025 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER (RMC) GAINED 212 NEW MEMBERS AND 17 NEW CORPORATE MEMBERSHIPS, FURTHERING THE CHAPTER'S COMMITMENT TO INCREASE ITS PRESENCE IN THE COMMUNITY. THE 2025 ROCKY MOUNTAIN CYBERSPACE SYMPOSIUM RAISED OVER 560K, WHICH ALLOWED THE CHAPTER TO MAKE AN ENORMOUS IMPACT IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY BY DONATING 500K FOR STEM SCHOLARSHIPS, TEACHER GRANTS AND OTHER STEM-RELATED COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES. THIS INCLUDED: DONATING 50K IN STEM SCHOLARSHIPS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-COLORADO SPRINGS (UCCS), WHICH BENEFITS 20 STUDENTS EACH YEAR WITH OVER A THIRD BEING VETERANS. CHAPTER AWARDS FOR OUR PREMIER PROGRAM, THE MIKE VARNER STEM TEACHER GRANTS, INCREASED FROM TO 189K, PROVIDING SUPPORT TO 72 ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS, RESULTING IN AWARDS TO 39 TITLE 1 SCHOOLS. ADDITIONALLY, WE SUSTAINED OUR STRONG PARTNERSHIP WITH UCCS IN 2025 BY COMMITTING 15,000 AS THE PRINCIPAL SPONSOR FOR THREE UCCS RURAL TEACHER GRANTS; TO DATE, RMC HAS PLACED 9 TEACHERS IN COLORADO RURAL SCHOOLS. WE ALSO SPONSOR THE UCCS MATH CLINIC IN WHICH NINETEEN INTERNS WERE FUNDED FOR PROJECTS WITH THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND ACADEMY SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE CHAPTER ALSO PROVIDED A TOTAL OF 103K TO CONTINUE THE GROWTH OF ROBOTICS PROGRAM ACROSS SOUTHERN COLORADO BY FUNDING THE PIKES PEAK ROBOTICS 501 (C)(3) CHARITY OPERATIONS. RMC AFCEA CONTINUES TO BE THE LARGEST NATIONWIDE SUPPORTER OF THE SCRIPPS HOWARD "IF YOU GIVE A CHILD A BOOK" PROGRAM. THE RMC DONATED 65K, PROVIDING 10 BOOKS TO OVER 1,700 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AT 7 TITLE 1 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH GOODWILL OF COLORADO CONTINUED WITH 50K FOR 20 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THEIR LIFT IT SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM THAT HELPS FILL A CRITICAL NATIONAL SHORTAGE OF CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS. ADDITIONALLY, THE RMC DONATED 2K FOR THE MOUNTAIN WEST CYBER CHALLENGE AND AN ADDITIONAL 1K FOR UCCS MIDDLE SCHOOL CYBER CAMPS AS OUR PARTNERING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO BUILD GREAT STEM PROGRAMS TOGETHER CONTINUES. 2026 GOALS: 1) INCREASE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP BY AT LEAST ONE PERSON 2) INCREASE CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP BY 1 COMPANY 3) ESTABLISH AN AFCEA HEADQUARTERS HOSTED WEBSITE OR MAINTAIN AN EXISTING ONE 4) RAISE AT LEAST 175K THROUGH CHAPTER FUNDRAISING EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR 5) HOLD A QUARTERLY SMALL BUSINESS NETWORKING EVENT 6) DONATE 500K TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY FOR STEM-RELATED EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 7) ATTRACT OVER 2,000 ATTENDEES TO RMCS25 8) HOLD AT LEAST TWO SOCIAL EVENTS DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR FOR EMERGING LEADERS 9) SUBMIT AT LEAST 2 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR

  Expenses $1,684,201 · Grants $710,000 · Revenue $1,680,566

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• AFCEA ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION

  $700,000

  PROGRAM EXP

• OUR COMMUNITY SALUTES

  $10,000

  GENERAL SUPPORT

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

24 August 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.0

Source object

202632369349300873

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