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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$350k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$836kCivil Rights$516kHealth$160kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$45kReligion$16kYouth Development$6k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Soul 2 Sisters$10,000
CO Immigrant Rights Coalition$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%United for New Economy: $35k → 10%United for New Economy: $10k → 10%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.
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$641k · 3 repeat orgs$989k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$641k
$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • NE
    New Era Colorado Action Fund
    4× · 2019–2024 · $580k · revenue +164% · 32% of their budget
  • UF
    UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue -58%
  • S2
    SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS
    2× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • AA
    ABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL
    one grant, 2020 · $145k
  • AF
    ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +54%
  • CF
    Coloradans For Protecting Rep
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado

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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4
Colorado People's Alliance

Colorado people's alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans…

Human Services
5
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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6
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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7
United for a New Economy Action

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…

Human Services
8
Aia Colorado

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…

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9
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
10
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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11
Colorado Doula Project

The colorado doula project is a grassroots non-profit organization that provides free logistical, financial, and emotional support for people accessing abortion in colorado. a network of volunteer abortion doulas that can help you access…

Health
12
Building a Better Colorado

To conduct research, promote community engagement, and provide an amalgamation of information to the citizens of colorado.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COBALT FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Civil RightsCOBALT FOUNDATIONALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $250,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZINGACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC+2 more: $16,250 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado Action Fund: $580,000 · Public BenefitNew Era Colorado Action FundABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL: $145,000 · OtherABORTION ACCESS FOR …COLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: $100,000 · OtherCOLORADANS FOR PROTE…Coloradans For Protecting Rep: $50,000 · OtherColoradans For Prote…+1 more: $6,250 · OtherUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $45,000 · Human ServicesSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS: $16,250 · ReligionTHE ARCHER GROUP: $15,000 · HealthProject VOYCE: $6,250 · Youth Development
Civil Rights$666,250Public Benefit$580,000Other$301,250Human Services$45,000Religion$16,250Health$15,000Youth Development$6,250

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

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
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.

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 Founda…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …The Colorado Health F…Caring for Colorado F…The Colorado TrustImpactassetsincChinook Fund IncThe Women's Foundatio…Mile High United Way …Merle Chambers Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Era Colorado Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Era Colorado Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 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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