· Public charity
New Era Colorado Foundation
New Era Colorado Foundation Organizes young people to participate in the political process, develop as leaders, and find a political home.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cobalt Foundation | $350,000 |
| Alliance for Youth Organizing | $250,000 |
| New Era Colorado Action Fund | $150,000 |
| Coloradans For Protecting Rep | $100,000 |
| United for New Economy | $35,000 |
| CO Immigrant Rights Coalition | $10,000 |
| Soul 2 Sisters | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NENew Era Colorado Action Fund4× · 2019–2024 · $580k · revenue +164% · 32% of their budget
- UFUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue -58%
- S2SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS2× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue -13%
Funded once
- AAABORTION ACCESS FOR ALLone grant, 2020 · $145k
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +54%
- CFColoradans For Protecting Repone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact
To protect, defend, and extend the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Colorado through litigation, education, and advocacy
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Une action builds people power for racial and economic justice so all coloradans thrive. we do this by organizing in our communities across race, winning bold policy solutions for all, and building a multiracial voting majority that…
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…
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.
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
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.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
New Era Colorado Foundation Organizes young people to participate in the political process, develop as leaders, and find a political home.
We mobilize coloradans to engage their public officials to protect the colorado way of life. we advocate for public policy that embraces the colorado values of fairness, responsibility, opportunity and freedom.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom and the most unlike its peers is Project Voyce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds New Era Colorado Action Fund ↗
- Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds ABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds COLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER GROUP ↗
- Who funds COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Project VOYCE ↗
- Who funds Young African Americans for Social and Political Activism ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Impactassetsinc · Chinook Fund Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · Merle Chambers Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization New Era Colorado Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.