· Public charity
Careerwise Colorado
Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young people.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAREERWISE NEW YORK | $1,051,554 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $257,483 |
| CHERRY CREEK SCHOL DISTRICT | $34,091 |
| DENVER HEALTH & HOSPITAL AUTHORITY | $28,928 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $25,000 |
| DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,065 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Careerwise Colorado’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CNCAREERWISE NEW YORK INC4× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +42%
- CCCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $375k · revenue +129% · 30% of their budget
- IPIndianapolis Private Industry Council3× · 2021–2024 · $327k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CCCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue -27%
- ECEAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CCCOMPASS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $35k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CAREERWISE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Private Industry Council ↗
- Who funds CITYWORKS DC ↗
- Who funds GRAND JUNCTION AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds KOSON Schools dba STEM School Highlands Ranch ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Colorado Early Colleges ↗
- Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds DENVER METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Education Initiative · Rose Community Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado · Denver Broncos Foundation · Jobs for the Future Inc · Round It Up America Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Careerwise Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Careerwise Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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