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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Uniserv Unit; 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 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. 17 of the 20 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 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 →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colorado Education Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Education Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    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 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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