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Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc

Education reform now advocacy, inc.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$190k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$14MCivil Rights$289kHealth$100kEmployment$50kEnvironment$40kHuman Services$25k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $919,747, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,579,725 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $659,978 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $810k
$35,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DFER DC IEC$190,000
DFER GA PAC$184,747
BLUE RISING TOGETHER$100,000
CITIZENS FOR A GREAT DENVER$100,000
DENVER STUDENTS FAMILIES AND TEACHERS UNITED FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS$85,000
COLORADO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ACTION$50,000
THE COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS FOR K-12 STUDENTS$50,000
DFER MA PAC$50,000
COLLECTIVE FUTURE$35,000
LEGACY 44$15,000
LOUISIANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY$10,000
TEXAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY$10,000
VOTE TO LIVE ACTION FUND$10,000
PENNSYLVANIA 2024$10,000
TEXAS JUSTICE FUND$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ONE COLORADO: $25k → 12%EQUAL CITIZENS US: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 28 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
51

Total granted

$10M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+2%

Still filing today

25%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $479k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BE
    BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +58%
  • CC
    COLORADO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ACTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $91k · revenue +273%
  • LV
    LATINO VICTORY PROJECT
    2× · 2020–2022 · $70k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • GJ
    GOOD JOBS COLORADO
    one grant, 2018 · $650k
  • AB
    A BRIGHTER HEALTHIER FUTURE FOR COLORADOS KIDS
    one grant, 2020 · $535k
  • CF
    COLORADANS FOR PROSPERITY
    one grant, 2019 · $400k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Protect Colorados Vote

To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact

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2
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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3
Colorado League of Responsible Voters

To educate and inform voters

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4
Coloradans for Local Communities

To oppose statewide ballot measures that would restrict local district revenue and support statewide ballot measures that would protect local district revenue.

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5
Colorado Rising State Action

The organization is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

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6
Unite for Colorado

To promote the common good and general welfare of americans by promoting public policy that strengthens the economy, promotes job growth, and supports fair and reasonable business regulations.

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7
Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights
8
Defend Colorado

The mission of the organization is to conduct research and analysis of conditions affecting the Colorado state economy and promote policies that strengthen the state economy.

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9
Colorado Civic Education

Educate the general public about important policy issues.

Civil Rights
10
Colorado Ethics Institute

The colorado ethics institute (cei) was founded to protect the general public by ensuring that public officials comply with ethics codes, transparency rules, and that they follow their oaths of office. cei frequently communicates with the…

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11
Brighter Future for Colorado

Social welfare.

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12
Coloradans for Food Justice

Coloradans for food justice is building community power by making sure that every eater in colorado has a voice to make transformative change that represents a more just food system by mobilizing values-driven voters statewide.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Values Project; the most unlike its peers is Texas Justice Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 88 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/36
Grantees still filing
18/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DFER DC IEC: $2,674,642 · OtherDFER DC IECRAISING COLORADO: $1,500,000 · OtherRAISING COLORADOBETTER COLORADO ALLIANCE: $1,170,000 · OtherBETTER COLORADO ALLIANCEALL TOGETHER COLORADO: $780,000 · OtherALL TOGETHER COLORADOGOOD JOBS COLORADO: $650,000 · OtherOUR COLORADO VALUES: $551,000 · OtherA BRIGHTER HEALTHIER FUTURE FOR COLORADOS KIDS: $535,000 · OtherSTRONG COLORADO FOR ALL: $500,000 · Other+68 more: $5,945,097 · Other+68 moreCLCS ACTION: $75,000 · Public BenefitNew Era Colorado Action Fund: $25,000 · Public BenefitOne Main Street Colorado: $10,000 · Public BenefitCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Civil RightsFAIR DEMOCRACY: $15,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO DEMOCRACY NETWORK: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY: $6,500 · Civil RightsFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $25,000 · EducationPROGRESSNOW COLORADO: $25,000 · EducationONE COLORADO: $25,000 · Human ServicesEQUALCITIZENSUS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerica Votes: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$14,305,739Public Benefit$110,000Civil Rights$81,500Education$50,000Human Services$35,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADANS FOR PROSPERITY: $400,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCOLORADO VALUES PROJECT: $331,750 over 3y, 35% of budgetLEAD COLORADO: $150,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetVOTO LATINO INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: $125,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetBLUE RISING TOGETHER: $100,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ACTION: $91,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetCLCS ACTION: $75,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetLATINO VICTORY PROJECT: $70,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDENVER COMMITS TO KIDS: $55,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICA WORKS USA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Era Colorado Action Fund: $25,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESSNOW COLORADO: $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetONE COLORADO: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetStory Network Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO COMING TOGETHER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOLDLY FORWARD COLORADO: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOne Main Street Colorado: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO DEMOCRACY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA 2024: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetINCS ACTION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPROTECT COLORADOS RECOVERY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREBUILD LOUISIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALCITIZENSUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetTHIRD WAY: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of 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.

  • Who funds A BRIGHTER HEALTHIER FUTURE FOR COLORADOS KIDS ↗
  • Who funds COLORADANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO VALUES PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LEAD COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds VOTO LATINO INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RISING TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ACTION ↗
  • Who funds CLCS ACTION ↗
  • Who funds LATINO VICTORY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DENVER COMMITS TO KIDS ↗

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesAmerican Federation o…Planned Parenthood of…Future Forward USA Ac…Way to Win Action Fun…Brighter Future for C…Conservation ColoradoStand for Children IncCampaign for Great Pu…Green Advocacy ProjectOur American Future A…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC57.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Action Fund Inc · Future Forward USA Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Brighter Future for Colorado · Conservation Colorado · Stand for Children Inc · Campaign for Great Public Schools · Green Advocacy Project · Our American Future Action

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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