Colorado · Public charity
Colorado Community College System Foundation
To support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $56,915
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $913,013
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Colorado Community College System Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $3.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $3.1M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $914k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $884k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community College of Aurora | $3,388,174 | 7 | n/a |
| Front Range Community College Foundation | $1,693,799 | 8 | 17% |
| Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc | $1,552,017 | 8 | 15% |
| Community College of Denver Fdn | $1,365,092 | 8 | 17% |
| Community College of Aurora Foundation | $1,160,573 | 8 | 17% |
| Pueblo Community College Foundation | $1,000,395 | 8 | 6% |
| Arapahoe Community College Foundation Inc | $840,333 | 8 | 9% |
| Red Rocks Community College Foundation | $795,077 | 8 | 9% |
| Morgan Community College Foundation | $439,642 | 8 | 11% |
| Northeastern Junior College Found | $245,719 | 8 | 6% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community College of Aurora | $3,388,174 | 7 | n/a |
| Front Range Community College Foundation | $1,693,799 | 8 | 17% |
| Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc | $1,552,017 | 8 | 15% |
| Community College of Denver Fdn | $1,365,092 | 8 | 17% |
| Community College of Aurora Foundation | $1,160,573 | 8 | 17% |
| Pueblo Community College Foundation | $1,000,395 | 8 | 6% |
| Arapahoe Community College Foundation Inc | $840,333 | 8 | 9% |
| Red Rocks Community College Foundation | $795,077 | 8 | 9% |
| Morgan Community College Foundation | $439,642 | 8 | 11% |
| Northeastern Junior College Found | $245,719 | 8 | 6% |
| Trinidad State College Foundation Inc | $234,742 | 8 | 4% |
| Otero College Foundation | $188,948 | 8 | 50% |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $146,277 | 3 | 1% |
| Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation | $143,718 | 7 | 10% |
| Lamar Community College Foundation | $140,485 | 8 | 5% |
| Pikes Peak Community College | $106,972 | 1 | n/a |
| Front Range Community College | $53,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Technical College of the Rockies | $7,710 | 2 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Colorado Community College System Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Roof F T Char · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Colorado Community College System Foundation
- How much does Colorado Community College System Foundation give?
- Colorado Community College System Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $3,294,572, out of $3,506,595 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Colorado Community College System Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%).
- Who are Colorado Community College System Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community College of Aurora ($3.4M), Front Range Community College Foundation ($1.7M), Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Colorado Community College System Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Community College System Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roof F T Char, Daniels Fund, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Colorado Community College System Foundation based?
- Colorado Community College System Foundation is based in CO.
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