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Colorado League of Charter Schools

To improve student achievement by supporting colorado's charter schools, positively reshaping the public school landscape, and advancing opportunities for innovation and expanded high-quality public school choice.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$25,983
Largest grant, FY2025
$320,972
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
Total assets, FY2025
$4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Colorado League of Charter Schools funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2025still arriving17$1.1M71%
FY20246$306k83%
FY20235$366k80%
FY20224$744k50%
FY20212$156k100%
FY20206$118k83%
FY20195$51k60%
FY20186$73k83%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.8MFood & Nutrition$107kPublic Benefit$100kArts & Culture$19k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clcs Action$1,560,705547%
Denver School of Science and Technology Inc$182,85010%
Prospect Academy of Colorado$156,000258%
Rocky Mountain Preparatory Schools$154,6001n/a
Reach University$131,75010%
Jack Holmes LLC$103,5001n/a
50can Inc$56,00010%
University Preparatory Schools$51,42520%
Atlas Preparatory School Inc$50,17510%
Mountain Village Montessori Charter School$34,30221%
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All grantees of Colorado League of Charter Schools by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clcs Action$1,560,705547%
Denver School of Science and Technology Inc$182,85010%
Prospect Academy of Colorado$156,000258%
Rocky Mountain Preparatory Schools$154,6001n/a
Reach University$131,75010%
Jack Holmes LLC$103,5001n/a
50can Inc$56,00010%
University Preparatory Schools$51,42520%
Atlas Preparatory School Inc$50,17510%
Mountain Village Montessori Charter School$34,30221%
Spacious Skies Charter School$33,8202n/a
Nova Academy$28,7251n/a
KIPP Colorado Schools$28,22510%
Aurora Community School$27,50024%
Salida Montessori Charter School$25,98310%
American Indian Academy of Denver$25,000131%
The Wildflower Foundation$24,00010%
French American School of Denver$23,6251n/a
Georgetown Community School$21,25021%
Visions Performing Arts Company$18,8001n/a
Knowledge Quest Academy$15,00010%
AXIS International Academy$15,0002n/a
Monarch Classical School$15,0002n/a
Durango Schools of Choice Inc$13,20520%
Mountain Middle School$12,44010%
Compass Comm Collaborative$11,4201n/a
Pagosa Peak Open School$10,0001n/a
High Rockies Community School$10,00014%
Moonshot edVentures$9,50010%
Mark Ross Montessori Foundation$8,80012%
Vista Charter School$8,00010%
Southwest Open School$7,83010%
Bal Swan Demonstration School$7,0001n/a
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$6,00010%
The Hadanou Collective$5,5001n/a
5280 High School$5,2451n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Colorado League of Charter Schools supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClcs Action: $1,560,705 over 5y, 47% of budgetDenver School of Science and Technology Inc: $182,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProspect Academy of Colorado: $156,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetReach University: $131,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budget50can Inc: $56,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity Preparatory Schools: $51,425 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $50,175 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Village Montessori Charter School: $34,302 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKIPP Colorado Schools: $28,225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAurora Community School: $27,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSalida Montessori Charter School: $25,983 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Indian Academy of Denver: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetThe Wildflower Foundation: $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgetown Community School: $21,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKnowledge Quest Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDurango Schools of Choice Inc: $13,205 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMountain Middle School: $12,440 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHigh Rockies Community School: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMoonshot edVentures: $9,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMark Ross Montessori Foundation: $8,800 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVista Charter School: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthwest Open School: $7,830 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 23.

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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.

Gates Family Foundati…Daniels FundCharter Fund Inc D/B/…Colorado Gives Founda…Wend II IncThe Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…RootedLouis Calder Foundati…Mile High United Way …Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Walton Family Foundat…
Gates Family FoundationCO27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Wend II Inc · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rooted · Louis Calder Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc

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 League of Charter Schools

How much does Colorado League of Charter Schools give?
Colorado League of Charter Schools reported 17 itemized grants totaling $1,128,455, out of $1,231,851 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Colorado League of Charter Schools fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Food & Nutrition (4%), Public Benefit (3%).
Who are Colorado League of Charter Schools's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Clcs Action ($1.6M), Denver School of Science and Technology Inc ($183k), Prospect Academy of Colorado ($156k).
Does Colorado League of Charter Schools fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado League of Charter Schools?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Family Foundation, Daniels Fund, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund.
Where is Colorado League of Charter Schools based?
Colorado League of Charter Schools 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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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