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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2020 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $194,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $199,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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.
$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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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 (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 its 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
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 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center Inc; 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 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. 16 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 Criminal Justice Reform Coalit: $16,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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
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 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

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 Civic Engagement Roundtable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    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 17 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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