Colorado · Public charity
Ready Colorado
READY COLORADO is an organization of conservatives working together to improve education in colorado. The touchstone of our education system should be choice; no one system of schooling should have a monopoly over opportunity. Parents should have the ability to send their kids to the school that will help their children thrive,…
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $410,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $141k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Ready Colorado funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $361k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $1.2M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $506k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $2.5M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $2.3M | 93% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ready Colorado Action Fund | $2,130,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Defend Colorado | $900,000 | 2 | 52% |
| Better Jobs Coalition | $890,000 | 3 | 43% |
| Colorado Rising State Action | $840,000 | 2 | 56% |
| Children's Enviromental Literacy Fdn | $591,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Better Jobs Coalition Iec | $584,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Learning Opportunities for Colorado's Kids | $525,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Advance Colorado | $500,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Colorado Dawn | $410,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Protecting Colorado's Future | $310,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 37 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ready Colorado Action Fund | $2,130,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Defend Colorado | $900,000 | 2 | 52% |
| Better Jobs Coalition | $890,000 | 3 | 43% |
| Colorado Rising State Action | $840,000 | 2 | 56% |
| Children's Enviromental Literacy Fdn | $591,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Better Jobs Coalition Iec | $584,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Learning Opportunities for Colorado's Kids | $525,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Advance Colorado | $500,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Colorado Dawn | $410,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Protecting Colorado's Future | $310,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Building Aurora Together | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Coloradians for Accountable Government | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Leaders Strong Schools | $125,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Senate Majority Fund | $111,125 | 5 | n/a |
| Colorado Opportunity Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Our Community Our Future | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Western Citizens Protecting Our Constitution | $100,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Make Colorado Affordable Again Iec | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Care Membership Organization LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Coloradians for Conservative Leadership Ie | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| No on Hh | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reasonable Districts Colorado | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unite for Colorado Action Iec | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leadership Program of the Rockies | $37,125 | 5 | 0% |
| Purple Label Government Solutions | $34,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Campaign for Jobs and Opportunity | $27,540 | 1 | n/a |
| Values First Colorado | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Accountability in El Paso County | $18,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Ready Colorado | $10,010 | 1 | 0% |
| New Day Colorado Fund | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Restore Colorado Leadership Fund Iec | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Strive Preparatory Schools | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fair Maps Colorado | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University Preparatory Schools | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Business Opportunity Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($528k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ready Colorado supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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: Unite for Colorado · Our Community Our Future · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ready Colorado
- How much does Ready Colorado give?
- Ready Colorado reported 9 grants totaling $1,165,675 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Ready Colorado fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Civil Rights (22%), Public Benefit (22%).
- Who are Ready Colorado's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Ready Colorado Action Fund ($2.1M), Defend Colorado ($900k), Better Jobs Coalition ($890k).
- Does Ready Colorado fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ready Colorado?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unite for Colorado, Our Community Our Future, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Ready Colorado based?
- Ready Colorado is based in CO.
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