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Colorado Education Association

Promote quality public education and advocate the interest of public education employees.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$206k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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 FY2019–2024.

Employment$3.8MHuman Services$2.2MEducation$1.8MMembership Benefit$437kHealth$6k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
$112,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONDENVER UNISERV UNIT$205,757
CENTRAL ADAMS UNISERV UNIT$173,801
FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT$170,465
TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT$144,400
BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT$128,553
AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT$121,307
COLORADO FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATION$112,500
NORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT$88,673
JEFFCO EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION$85,897
SPANISH PEAKS UNISERV$79,342
WEST CENTRAL COLORADO UNISERV UNIT$69,281
PIKES PEAK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$68,395
COLORADO SPRINGS UNISERV UNIT$62,556
MAPLETON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$13,478
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEFFCO EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION: $86k → 7%FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT: $170k → 8%NORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT: $89k → 9%CENTRAL ADAMS UNISERV UNIT: $179k → 10%TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT: $144k → 12%SPANISH PEAKS UNISERV: $82k → 15%CLASSIFIED SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSOCJEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1: $81k → 7%FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT: $156k → 8%NORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT: $79k → 9%CENTRAL ADAMS UNISERV UNIT: $174k → 10%TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT: $138k → 12%COLORADO FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATION: $300k → 12%SPANISH PEAKS UNISERV: $79k → 15%CLASSIFIED SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSOCJEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1: $81k → 7%FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT: $153k → 8%NORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT: $79k → 9%CENTRAL ADAMS UNISERV UNIT: $161k → 10%TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT: $136k → 12%DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONDENVER UNISERV UNIT: $217k → 12%SPANISH PEAKS UNISERV: $75k → 15%FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT: $150k → 8%NORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT: $75k → 9%CENTRAL ADAMS UNISERV UNIT: $153k → 10%TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT: $135k → 12%DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONDENVER UNISERV UNIT: $206k → 12%FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT: $143k → 8%CENTRAL ADAMS UNISERV UNIT: $139k → 10%TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT: $123k → 12%DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $196k → 12%FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT: $127k → 8%CENTRAL ADAMS UNISERV UNIT: $130k → 10%TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT: $111k → 12%DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONDENVER UNISERV UNIT: $195k → 12%AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT: $121k → 8%BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT: $129k → 12%DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $186k → 12%AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT: $112k → 8%BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT: $126k → 12%DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $144k → 12%AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT: $109k → 8%BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT: $125k → 12%COLORADO FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATION: $113k → 12%AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT: $109k → 8%BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT: $124k → 12%AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT: $96k → 8%BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT: $121k → 12%AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT: $90k → 8%BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT: $112k → 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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.1M · 15 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$8.1M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+70%

Still filing today

93%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • DC
    DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +22%
  • CA
    CENTRAL ADAMS UNIVSERV UNIT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $936k · revenue +16% · 30% of their budget
  • FR
    FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $899k · revenue +19% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • BB
    BURTON BOND
    one grant, 2023 · $74k
  • AE
    AURORA EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +70%
  • TI
    TEACHorg Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +162%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Fairfield-Suisun Unified Teachers Association

Provide employment related beneftis for members.

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2
California Teachers Association

Contract negotiation for teachers

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3
Utah School Employees Association

Representing members in contract negotiations and assisting individuals with varius work related issues.

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4
Florida Education Association Putnam Federation of Teachers/United

Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.

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5
Connecticut Education Association

Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.

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6
East Williston Teachers Association

Labor union

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7
Bend Education Association

Unify efforts of teachers

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8
American Federation of Teachers

Teachers association

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9
Forest Lake Education Association % Dave Sauer

Collective bargaining unit for public school educators

Employment
10
California Teachers Association-Ssfcta South San Francisco Classroom Teachers

Labor union

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11
Columbus Education Association

Teacher representation

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12
Connecticut Education Association

The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Uniserv Unit and the most unlike its peers is Spanish Peaks Uniserv. 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

17 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. 17 of the 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOC — $1,143,929 · OtherDENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCFRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT — $899,191 · OtherFRONT RANGE UNISERV UNITBOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT — $736,093 · OtherBOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNITAURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT — $638,440 · OtherAURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNITSPANISH PEAKS UNISERV — $455,082 · OtherSPANISH PEAKS UNISERVNORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT — $450,790 · OtherNORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNITCOLORADO FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATION — $412,500 · OtherCOLORADO FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATIONWest Central Colorado UniServ Unit — $407,455 · OtherWest Central Colorado UniServ UnitPIKES PEAK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $386,988 · OtherPIKES PEAK EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONJEFFCO EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION — $383,235 · OtherJEFFCO EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATIONCOLORADO SPRINGS UNISERV UNIT — $356,823 · OtherCOLORADO SPRINGS UNISERV UNIT+6 more — $206,772 · OtherCENTRAL ADAMS UNIVSERV UNIT — $935,630 · EmploymentCENTRAL ADAMS UNIVSERV …TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT — $787,310 · EmploymentTWO RIVERS UNISERV UNITTEACHorg Inc — $50,000 · Education
Other$6,477,298Employment$1,722,940Education$50,000

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 budgetDENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOC — $1,143,929 over 6y, 14% of budgetCENTRAL ADAMS UNIVSERV UNIT — $935,630 over 6y, 30% of budgetFRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT — $899,191 over 6y, 27% of budgetTWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT — $787,310 over 6y, 66% of budgetBOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT — $736,093 over 6y, 33% of budgetAURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT — $638,440 over 6y, 46% of budgetSPANISH PEAKS UNISERV — $455,082 over 6y, 31% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT — $450,790 over 6y, 24% of budgetWest Central Colorado UniServ Unit — $407,455 over 6y, 43% of budgetPIKES PEAK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $386,988 over 6y, 20% of budgetJEFFCO EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION — $383,235 over 6y, 20% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS UNISERV UNIT — $356,823 over 6y, 22% of budgetAURORA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTEACHorg Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThompson Education Association — $30,191 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMAPLETON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $26,831 over 2y, 19% of budgetSEIU COLORADO STATE COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

  • Who funds DENVER CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ADAMS UNIVSERV UNIT ↗
  • Who funds FRONT RANGE UNISERV UNIT ↗
  • Who funds TWO RIVERS UNISERV UNIT ↗
  • Who funds BOULDER WESTMINSTER UNISERV UNIT ↗
  • Who funds AURORA LITTLETON UNISERV UNIT ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH PEAKS UNISERV ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO UNISERV UNIT ↗
  • Who funds West Central Colorado UniServ Unit ↗
  • Who funds PIKES PEAK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JEFFCO EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS UNISERV UNIT ↗
  • Who funds AURORA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TEACHorg Inc ↗
  • Who funds Thompson Education Association ↗
  • Who funds MAPLETON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SEIU COLORADO STATE COUNCIL ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

National Education As…
National Education Association of the United StatesDC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States

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 Education Association 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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