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Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable

Colorado civic engagement is a national model for grassroots civic engagement where every individual has what they need to thrive and actively participate in our democracy.

$199k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Public Benefit$861kCommunity Improvement$223kCivil Rights$102kHealth$16kCrime & Legal$16k
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $194,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $199,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$15,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$824k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VODES UNIDAS DE LA MONTANAS$34,000
WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE$27,000
ONE COLORADO$23,000
COLORADO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM$16,000
COLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION$16,000
COBALT FOUNDATION$15,500
ACLU COLORADO$15,000
CITIZENS PROJECT$14,000
TOGETHER COLORADO$12,000
YOUNG INVINCIBLES$11,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$10,500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CITIZENS PROJECT: $14k → 9%ONE COLORADO: $23k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Protect Colorados Vote

To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact

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2
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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3
Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado

To protect, defend, and extend the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Colorado through litigation, education, and advocacy

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5
Progressnow Colorado

To promote citizen engagement in the formation of public policy

Education
6
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
8
Colorado Rising State Action

The organization is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

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9
Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable

Colorado civic engagement is a national model for grassroots civic engagement where every individual has what they need to thrive and actively participate in our democracy.

Civil Rights
10
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
11
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization

Empowering Latino communities through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is State Engagement Fund. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Era Colorado Foundation — $353,000 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado FoundationMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $152,750 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCIONCOLORADO CIVIC EDUCATION — $95,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO CIVIC EDUCATION+3 more — $41,500 · Civil Rights+3 morePROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $175,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDU…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $43,750 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTE…WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE — $27,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANC…TOGETHER COLORADO — $12,000 · Community ImprovementVISION 2020 — $139,989 · OtherVISION 2020COLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION — $16,000 · OtherCOLORADO CROSS…STATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $73,800 · Public BenefitSTATE ENGA…VOCES UNIDAS DE LAS MONTANAS — $34,000 · Public BenefitVOCES UNID…ONE COLORADO — $23,000 · Human ServicesCitizens Project — $14,000 · Human ServicesColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit — $16,000 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$642,250Community Improvement$257,750Other$155,989Public Benefit$107,800Human Services$37,000Crime & Legal$16,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $353,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $175,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $152,750 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIC EDUCATION — $95,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $73,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $43,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVOCES UNIDAS DE LAS MONTANAS — $34,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE — $27,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetONE COLORADO — $23,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION — $16,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit — $16,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCitizens Project — $14,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTOGETHER COLORADO — $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado TrustCommunity Foundation …Brett Family Foundati…Caring for Colorado F…New Venture FundMerle Chambers FundCaring for Colorado C…Gill Foundation
The Colorado Health FoundationCO27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Community Foundation Boulder County · Brett Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · New Venture Fund · Merle Chambers Fund · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Gill Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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