How much does Colorado Bar Foundation give?

Colorado Bar Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $223,946, out of $396,996 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Colorado Bar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (48%), Human Services (9%), Youth Development (3%).

Who are Colorado Bar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation ($175k), Colorado Access to Justice Commission ($60k), Colorado Bar Association ($49k).

Does Colorado Bar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Bar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.

Where is Colorado Bar Foundation based?

Colorado Bar Foundation is based in CO.

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Colorado · Public charity

Colorado Bar Foundation

To promote & advance the jurisprudence system and administration of justice in the state of colorado through education, scientific research, & the dissemination of education information to practicing attorneys in the state of colorado and to the members of the general public.

$397k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 22
Itemized grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $224k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $7,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 12; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Colorado Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	22	$224k	50%
FY2024	12	$228k	50%
FY2022	7	$139k	29%
FY2021	7	$128k	57%
FY2020	7	$133k	n/a

93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$407kHuman Services$75kYouth Development$26kHealth$19kEducation$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation	$175,207	5	2%
Colorado Access to Justice Commission	$59,500	2	3%
Colorado Bar Association	$48,500	4	0%
Forge Evolution	$26,000	4	2%
Crossroads Safehouse Inc	$25,000	4	0%
Tri-County Health Network	$19,000	3	0%
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network	$16,500	2	0%
Children's Advocacy Center for the Pikes Peak Region Inc	$13,500	2	0%
Rocky Mountain Veterans Advocacy Project Inc	$13,000	2	1%
Advocates of Lake County Inc	$12,621	2	0%

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All grantees of Colorado Bar Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation	$175,207	5	2%
Colorado Access to Justice Commission	$59,500	2	3%
Colorado Bar Association	$48,500	4	0%
Forge Evolution	$26,000	4	2%
Crossroads Safehouse Inc	$25,000	4	0%
Tri-County Health Network	$19,000	3	0%
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network	$16,500	2	0%
Children's Advocacy Center for the Pikes Peak Region Inc	$13,500	2	0%
Rocky Mountain Veterans Advocacy Project Inc	$13,000	2	1%
Advocates of Lake County Inc	$12,621	2	0%
Companeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center	$10,500	2	0%
Rocky Mountain Legal Center	$10,000	2	3%
Better Tomorrow	$8,000	1	n/a
Bright Future Foundation for Eagle County	$7,500	1	n/a
Law SchoolYes We Can	$7,500	1	3%
Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice	$7,250	1	20%
Family Tree Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Project Safeguard	$6,000	1	0%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$6,000	1	n/a
Colorado Poverty Law Project	$6,000	1	0%
A Woman's Place Incorporated	$6,000	1	n/a
The Family Resource Center	$6,000	1	n/a
Court Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc	$6,000	1	2%
Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance	$5,500	1	0%
Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County	$5,250	1	1%
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence	$5,050	1	n/a
Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center	$5,000	1	0%
Hispanic Affairs Project	$5,000	1	1%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($323k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Colorado Bar Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO37.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Boettcher Foundation · The Colorado Trust

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.

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About Colorado Bar Foundation

How much does Colorado Bar Foundation give?: Colorado Bar Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $223,946, out of $396,996 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Colorado Bar Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (48%), Human Services (9%), Youth Development (3%).
Who are Colorado Bar Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation ($175k), Colorado Access to Justice Commission ($60k), Colorado Bar Association ($49k).
Does Colorado Bar Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Bar Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
Where is Colorado Bar Foundation based?: Colorado Bar Foundation is based in CO.