Colorado · Public charity
Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation
Funding of legal services, pro-bono, and legal education projects.
- $9.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,961,125
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $675k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $9.7M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $9.7M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $5.9M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $2.4M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $2.3M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $4.2M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $1.9M | 18% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Legal Services | $33,639,074 | 9 | 31% |
| Colorado Center on Law and Policy | $1,493,655 | 9 | 14% |
| Colorado Access to Justice Commission | $865,000 | 3 | 51% |
| Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network | $504,068 | 2 | 3% |
| Denver Bar Foundation | $399,700 | 4 | 84% |
| Pikes Peak Justice & Pro Bono Center | $358,650 | 9 | 39% |
| Uncompahgre Volunteer Legal Aid Inc | $296,000 | 9 | 55% |
| Alpine Legal Services Inc | $282,000 | 9 | 8% |
| The Hadanou Collective | $280,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center | $240,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Legal Services | $33,639,074 | 9 | 31% |
| Colorado Center on Law and Policy | $1,493,655 | 9 | 14% |
| Colorado Access to Justice Commission | $865,000 | 3 | 51% |
| Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network | $504,068 | 2 | 3% |
| Denver Bar Foundation | $399,700 | 4 | 84% |
| Pikes Peak Justice & Pro Bono Center | $358,650 | 9 | 39% |
| Uncompahgre Volunteer Legal Aid Inc | $296,000 | 9 | 55% |
| Alpine Legal Services Inc | $282,000 | 9 | 8% |
| The Hadanou Collective | $280,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center | $240,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Colorado Poverty Law Project | $220,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Weld County Legal Services Inc | $159,000 | 9 | 78% |
| Tessa | $152,334 | 2 | 3% |
| University of Denver | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Bar Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Larimer County Bar Association | $126,000 | 9 | 23% |
| Denver Bar Association | $125,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Pro Bono Project of Mesa County Inc | $119,500 | 8 | 21% |
| Colorado Juvenile Defender Center DBA Transformative Justice Proj of Colo | $110,000 | 2 | 8% |
| San Luis Valley Bar Association Pro Bono Project Inc | $86,350 | 9 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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.
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How this is measured
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About Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation
- How much does Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation give?
- Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $9,721,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (98%), Civil Rights (1%), Education (0%).
- Who are Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado Legal Services ($34M), Colorado Center on Law and Policy ($1.5M), Colorado Access to Justice Commission ($865k).
- Does Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation based?
- Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation is based in CO.
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