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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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $223,946, the rows itemized in this filing. The $396,996 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $173,050 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $97k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION$40,000
COLORADO ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION$36,000
COLORADO BAR ASSOCIATION$20,500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK (RMIAN)$9,000
BETTER TOMORROW$8,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN VETERANS ADVOCACY PROJECT$8,000
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION$7,500
CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC$7,500
FORGE EVOLUTION$7,500
BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY$7,500
TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK$7,000
ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC$6,696
FAMILY TREE INC$6,500
A WOMAN'S PLACE$6,000
COLORADO POVERTY LAW PROJECT$6,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BETTER TOMORROW: $8k → 6%FAMILY TREE INC: $7k → 7%ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $7k → 11%COMPAEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $5k → 12%THE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 15%ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $6k → 11%COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%COURT CARE FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC: $6k → 9%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$748k · 13 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$748k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthEducationOther
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

  • CL
    Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +398%
  • CB
    COLORADO BAR ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +3%
  • FE
    Forge Evolution
    4× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • LS
    Law SchoolYes We Can
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • LE
    LEGAL ENTREPRENEURS FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    COLORADO CAMPAIGN FOR INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -99%
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 Lawyers Committee

To provide legal assistance and increase opportunities for children and other disadvantaged communities through advocacy, negotiation and litigation. Volunteer attorneys dedicate time to improve the quality of life for these causes while…

Crime & Legal
2
Justice for the People Legal Center

Justice for the People Legal Centers mission shall include but not be limited to the provision of legal services, grassroots organizing, and education to people and communities who have historically endured harm and trauma caused by our…

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3
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
4
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
5
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado

Solicits, receives, and distributes funds in cooperation with the Colorado Legal Services program, which provides civil legal aid to low-income persons.

Crime & Legal
6
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition

To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.

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7
Medical Legal Partnership Colorado

To provide direct pro-bono legal services for eligible patients at salud family health centers throughout central and northern front range communities.

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8
Colorado Civil Justice League

Colorado Civil Justice League is an advocacy organization established to foster a balanced and efficient civil justice system for the benefit of all.

Community Improvement
9
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
10
Casa of the Continental Divide

Court-appointed trained volunteers advocate in court for the best interest of children who are victims of abuse and neglect in the 5th judicial district of colorado in order to find them safe and permanent homes.

Civil Rights
11
Colorado Juvenile Defender Center Dba Transformative Justice Proj of Colo

Ensuring excellence in juvenile defense

Human Services
12
Colorado People's Alliance

Colorado people's alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Forge Evolution. 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

27 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. 27 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $318,460 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLORADO BAR ASSOCIATION: $48,500 · OtherCOLORADO BAR ASSOCIATIONCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC+6 more: $48,750 · Other+6 moreColorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation: $175,207 · Crime & LegalColorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundatio…COLORADO ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION: $59,500 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSIONForge Evolution: $26,000 · Crime & LegalForge EvolutionCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC: $13,500 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $22,500 · Crime & Legal+4 moreADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $12,621 · Human ServicesCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $10,500 · Human ServicesBETTER TOMORROW: $8,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6,000 · Human ServicesCourt Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $5,000 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $16,500 · Civil RightsIMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY: $5,250 · Civil RightsCOLORADO CAMPAIGN FOR INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE: $5,050 · Civil RightsTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $19,000 · HealthLaw SchoolYes We Can: $7,500 · Education
Other$440,710Crime & Legal$296,707Human Services$60,621Civil Rights$26,800Health$19,000Education$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation: $175,207 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION: $59,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOLORADO BAR ASSOCIATION: $48,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetForge Evolution: $26,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $19,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN VETERANS ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $12,621 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN LEGAL CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLaw SchoolYes We Can: $7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLEGAL ENTREPRENEURS FOR JUSTICE: $7,250 over 1y, 20% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SAFEGUARD: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO POVERTY LAW PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCourt Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHILD ADVOCACY ALLIANCE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY: $5,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN VICTIM LAW CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…The Colorado Health F…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationMile High United Way …Rocky Mountain Health…Rose Community Founda…Latino Community Foun…The Women's Foundatio…Boettcher FoundationThe Colorado Trust
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 30 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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