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Colorado Education Association

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

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$112,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$205,757
Organizations funded a year
12 to 19
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Colorado Education Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$1.5M0%
FY202319$1.5M32%
FY202213$1.3M0%
FY202114$1.6M14%
FY202012$1.2M0%
FY201912$1.1Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Employment$3.8MHuman Services$2.2MEducation$1.8MMembership Benefit$437kHealth$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Denver Classroom Teachers Assoc$1,143,929614%
Central Adams Univserv Unit$935,630630%
Front Range Uniserv Unit$899,191627%
Two Rivers Uniserv Unit$787,310666%
Boulder Westminster Uniserv Unit$736,093633%
Aurora Littleton Uniserv Unit$638,440646%
Spanish Peaks Uniserv$455,082631%
Northern Colorado Uniserv Unit$450,790624%
Colorado Fund for Children and Public Education$412,5002n/a
West Central Colorado UniServ Unit$407,455643%
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All grantees of Colorado Education Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Denver Classroom Teachers Assoc$1,143,929614%
Central Adams Univserv Unit$935,630630%
Front Range Uniserv Unit$899,191627%
Two Rivers Uniserv Unit$787,310666%
Boulder Westminster Uniserv Unit$736,093633%
Aurora Littleton Uniserv Unit$638,440646%
Spanish Peaks Uniserv$455,082631%
Northern Colorado Uniserv Unit$450,790624%
Colorado Fund for Children and Public Education$412,5002n/a
West Central Colorado UniServ Unit$407,455643%
Pikes Peak Education Association$386,988620%
Jeffco Education Support Professionals Association$383,235620%
Colorado Springs Uniserv Unit$356,823622%
Burton Bond$73,5001n/a
Aurora Education Association$50,000114%
TEACHorg Inc$50,00011%
Thompson Education Association$30,19134%
Mapleton Education Association$26,831219%
Seiu Colorado State Council$20,00013%
University Physicians Incorporated$6,2501n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Colorado Education Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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 →

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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.

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About Colorado Education Association

How much does Colorado Education Association give?
Colorado Education Association reported 14 grants totaling $1,528,440 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Colorado Education Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (46%), Human Services (27%), Education (22%).
Who are Colorado Education Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Denver Classroom Teachers Assoc ($1.1M), Central Adams Univserv Unit ($936k), Front Range Uniserv Unit ($899k).
Does Colorado Education Association fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Education Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Education Association of the United States.
Where is Colorado Education Association based?
Colorado Education Association is based in CO.

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

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