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Associated General Contractors of Colorado at a glance

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Associated General Contractors of Colorado

To provide members a competitive edge through excellence in advocacy, collaboration, leadership, networking, workforce development, and services.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$775k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.0MEmployment$1.7MHousing & Shelter$12k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $287k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$223,197
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION COLORADO$774,557
CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION$461,446
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$286,778
COLORADO SUCCEEDS$223,197
COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$64,089
TRIMBLE INC$40,000
MB BIM SOLUTIONS INC$12,030
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TRIMBLE INC: $40k → 7%LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOL: $7k → 8%CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION COLORADO: $775k → 9%COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $64k → 12%MB BIM SOLUTIONS INC: $12k → 8%CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION COLORADO: $189k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%University of Colorado Foundation: $11k → 12%EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%COLORADO SUCCEEDS: $223k → 12%COLORADO SUCCEEDS: $66k → 12%CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $461k → 12%Construction Education Foundation: $441k → 12%Construction Education Foundation: $318k → 12%CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $187k → 12%CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $163k → 12%CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $158k → 12%Colorado Education Foundation: $125k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 6 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$3.6M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+35%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CE
    CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +562% · 38% of their budget
  • CI
    Careers in Construction Colorado
    2× · 2024–2025 · $964k · revenue 0%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $380k

Funded once

  • D
    DRONEDEPLOY
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • CM
    COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +35%
  • LP
    Littleton Public Schools
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado State University- Pueblo Foundation

The foundation was established to promote colorado state university-pueblo and account for contributions from the general public for the benefit of the university. the foundation assists with approved fundraising activities, collects…

Education
2
Columbus State University Foundation Inc

The Columbus State University Foundation supports educational excellence and the expansion of educational opportunities at Columbus State University. The Foundation attracts, receives, invests, manages, and expends gifts and other…

Education
3
Cuesta College Foundation

The cuesta college foundation supports the excellence of cuesta college by engaging the community and building philanthropic resources. the funds raised and managed by the foundation strengthen college programs, provide educational…

Education
4
Colorado School of Mines Foundation

To support the university, its academic programs, and its students, and to foster alumni relations. see schedule o.

Education
5
Central Community College Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to advance opportunities for quality educational services in nebraska-based institutions.

Education
6
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
7
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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8
Contra Costa College Foundation

To develop resources and relationships that provide financial support to contra costa college students through student scholarships, student programs and services, instructional supplies and facility improvements.

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9
Community College of Denver Fdn

The foundation's purpose is to develop a sustainable source of revenue to support community college of denver, its students, faculty, staff and programs.

Education
10
Colorado Association of School Executives

Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education

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11
University of Northern Colorado Foundation

The foundation is entrusted to provide support and steward donations for the university of northern colorado.

Education
12
Coconino Community College Foundation

The mission of the coconino community college foundation is to promote the purpose and goals of coconino community college and to enhance the opportunities of coconino county residents.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Succeeds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $1,853,609 · EducationCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADOColorado Succeeds: $288,742 · EducationColorado Succeeds+5 more: $172,656 · Education+5 moreCareers in Construction Colorado: $963,978 · EmploymentCareers in Construction Color…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $380,326 · OtherREGENTS OF THE…DRONEDEPLOY: $40,000 · OtherDRONEDEPLOYTRIMBLE INC: $40,000 · OtherTRIMBLE INC+2 more: $19,030 · Other
Education$2,315,007Employment$963,978Other$479,356

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $1,853,609 over 7y, 38% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado: $963,978 over 2y, 12% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $288,742 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $64,089 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55,067 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Denver FoundationDaniels FundColorado Gives Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Denver FoundationCO15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Associated General Contractors of Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Associated General Contractors of Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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