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Colorado News Collaborative

To be a local media resource hub and ideas lab that serves all coloradans by strengthening high-quality local journalism, supporting civic engagement, and ensuring public accountability.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
$19,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$474k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BACK2BASICS$96,686
COLORADO HISPANIC MULTIMEDIA$46,548
BIZZY BEE ENTERPRISES$20,838
CONFETTI EVENTS MANAGER$19,649
ALPENGLOW PUBLISHERS$19,291
COLORADO TIMES LLC$19,000
ZEPOL MEDIA PARTNERS$10,915
ESTES VALLEY VOICE$10,324
DENVER WESTWORD$8,330
TELETRENDS$7,203
FRONT PORCH NE DENVER LLC$5,825
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ALPENGLOW PUBLISHERS: $19k → 7%CONFETTI EVENTS MANAGER: $20k → 8%BACK2BASICS: $97k → 10%ESTES VALLEY VOICE: $10k → 11%TELETRENDS: $7k → 12%ZEPOL MEDIA PARTNERS: $11k → 17%COLORADO TIMES LLC: $19k → 8%BIZZY BEE ENTERPRISES: $21k → 10%FRONT PORCH NE DENVER LLC: $6k → 12%COLORADO HISPANIC MULTIMEDIA: $47k → 12%DENVER WESTWORD: $8k → 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 field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2025–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2025 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 11 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BACK2BASICS: $96,686 · OtherBACK2BASICSEl Comercio De Colorado: $46,548 · OtherEl Comercio De ColoradoDenver Urban Spectrum: $20,838 · OtherDenver Urban SpectrumCONFETTI EVENTS MANAGER: $19,649 · OtherCONFETTI EVENTS MANAGERALPENGLOW PUBLISHERS: $19,291 · OtherALPENGLOW PUBLISHERSCOLORADO TIMES LLC: $19,000 · OtherCOLORADO TIMES LLCZEPOL MEDIA PARTNERS LLC: $10,915 · OtherESTES VALLEY VOICE: $10,324 · Other+3 more: $21,358 · Other+3 more
Other$264,609

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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.

Rose Community Founda…
Rose Community FoundationCO19.5× affinity7 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.

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 11 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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