Colorado · Public charity
Colorado Thrives
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
- $7k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $135k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Colorado Thrives funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $141k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Hybrid College | $125,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 9% |
| The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Entrepreneurship for All Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Ai Forum | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Colorado Thrives
- How much does Colorado Thrives give?
- Colorado Thrives reported 1 grants totaling $7,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Colorado Thrives fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Crime & Legal (29%), Community Improvement (19%).
- Who are Colorado Thrives's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Denver Hybrid College ($125k), Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc ($85k), The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center ($26k).
- Does Colorado Thrives fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Thrives?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Colorado Thrives based?
- Colorado Thrives is based in CO.
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