Colorado · Public charity
Colorado Succeeds
Colorado Succeeds is a nonpartisan, business-led organization working to improve education and workforce outcomes. Through policy and advocacy, the organization advances changes intended to improve learner outcomes and strengthen connections between education and employment. Through its employer-led talent strategy work, Colorado…
- $850k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2025
- $850,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 83% of the organizations Colorado Succeeds funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 1 | $850k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $90k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $90k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $150k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $130k | 86% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $127k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agile Learner Fund | $850,000 | 1 | 97% |
| Jt District 28-J | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Third Future Schools | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Springs School District 11 | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cherry Creek Schools Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Cube | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mile High Montessori Early Learning Cent | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Youth Congress | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wyatt Academy | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agile Learner Fund | $850,000 | 1 | 97% |
| Jt District 28-J | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Third Future Schools | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Springs School District 11 | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cherry Creek Schools Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Cube | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mile High Montessori Early Learning Cent | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Youth Congress | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wyatt Academy | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Vrain Valley Schools | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver School of Science and Technology Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thomas MacLaren School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Leadership Academy Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hadanou Collective | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Compass Community Collaborative School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain Preparatory Schools | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Resource Center of the Roaring Fork Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Murphy Creek PTO Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Loveland Classical Schools | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($379k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Colorado Succeeds supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Daniels Fund · Early Milestones Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Education Initiative · Mile High United Way Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Foundation for Educational Excellence · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado
How this is measured
About Colorado Succeeds
- How much does Colorado Succeeds give?
- Colorado Succeeds reported 1 grants totaling $850,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Colorado Succeeds fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), International (3%), Health (3%).
- Who are Colorado Succeeds's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Agile Learner Fund ($850k), Jt District 28-J ($20k), Third Future Schools ($15k).
- Does Colorado Succeeds fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Succeeds?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Colorado Succeeds based?
- Colorado Succeeds is based in CO.
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