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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.

$921k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$350,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations New Era Colorado Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23
Civil RightsHuman ServicesReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$905k57%
FY20234$225k75%
FY20221$180k0%
FY20206$220k100%
FY20191$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$836kCivil Rights$516kHealth$160kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$45kReligion$16kYouth Development$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of New Era Colorado Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Era Colorado Action Fund$580,000432%
Cobalt Foundation$350,00014%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$250,00012%
Abortion Access for All$145,00012%
Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom$100,00011%
ACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc$50,00012%
United for a New Economy$45,00024%
Soul 2 Soul Sisters$16,25021%
The Archer Group$15,00011%
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition$10,00010%
Project VOYCE$6,25010%
Young African Americans for Social and Political Activism$6,25011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

New Era Colorado Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Era Colorado Action Fund: $580,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetCobalt Foundation: $350,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAlliance for Youth Organizing: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAbortion Access for All: $145,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetColoradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUnited for a New Economy: $45,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSoul 2 Soul Sisters: $16,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Archer Group: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetColorado Immigrant Rights Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProject VOYCE: $6,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism: $6,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Rose Community FoundationCO23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About New Era Colorado Foundation

How much does New Era Colorado Foundation give?
New Era Colorado Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $920,775 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does New Era Colorado Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (51%), Civil Rights (32%), Health (10%).
Who are New Era Colorado Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: New Era Colorado Action Fund ($580k), Cobalt Foundation ($350k), Alliance for Youth Organizing ($250k).
Does New Era Colorado Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as New Era Colorado Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is New Era Colorado Foundation based?
New Era Colorado Foundation is based in CO.

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 14 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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