Colorado · Public charity
Community Shares of Colorado Inc
We connect coloradans to the charities and causes they care about most. Our purpose is to raise and allocate money to the member organizations, increase public visibility of member organizations, promote cooperation between member organizations, and to provide a forum for diverse organizations to network.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2023
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $987k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $9,809
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $197,197
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 80
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 4
- Total assets, FY2023
- $2.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Community Shares of Colorado Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 42 | $987k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $1.2M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.1M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $1.5M | 9% |
| FY2018 | 80 | $3.1M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caring Connection | $1,106,990 | 5 | 62% |
| Chc Creating Healthier Communities | $1,000,941 | 4 | 1% |
| Mile High United Way Inc | $986,492 | 7 | 1% |
| Community Health Charities Of | $923,970 | 3 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $807,835 | 7 | 0% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $617,387 | 7 | 0% |
| Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc | $551,456 | 7 | 1% |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $477,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $264,348 | 7 | 0% |
| ACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc | $235,332 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 132 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Shares of Colorado Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Boettcher Foundation
How this is measured
About Community Shares of Colorado Inc
- How much does Community Shares of Colorado Inc give?
- Community Shares of Colorado Inc reported 42 itemized grants totaling $986,756, out of $1,483,397 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Shares of Colorado Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (26%), Animals (16%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Community Shares of Colorado Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Caring Connection ($1.1M), Chc Creating Healthier Communities ($1.0M), Mile High United Way Inc ($986k).
- Does Community Shares of Colorado Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Shares of Colorado Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Community Shares of Colorado Inc based?
- Community Shares of Colorado Inc is based in CO.
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