· Public charity
Ready Colorado
READY COLORADO is an organization of conservatives working together to improve education in colorado.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
- $250k+2 grants · $720k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO DAWN | $410,000 |
| PROTECTING COLORADO'S FUTURE | $310,000 |
| READY COLORADO ACTION FUND | $150,000 |
| COLORADIANS FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT | $150,000 |
| COLORADIANS FOR CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP IE | $75,000 |
| PURPLE LABEL GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS | $34,600 |
| SENATE MAJORITY FUND | $13,625 |
| LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF THE ROCKIES | $7,500 |
| NEW DAY COLORADO FUND | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $987k 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
- RCREADY COLORADO ACTION FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M
- DCDefend Colorado2× · 2020–2022 · $900k · revenue -73% · 52% of their budget
- BJBETTER JOBS COALITION3× · 2020–2022 · $890k · revenue -93% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- CEChildren's Enviromental Literacy Fdngraduatedone grant, 2018 · $591k · revenue +137%
- LOLEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLORADO'S KIDSone grant, 2021 · $525k
- ACADVANCE COLORADOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +244% · 30% of their budget
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.
To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact
To conduct research, promote community engagement, and provide an amalgamation of information to the citizens of colorado.
Educate the general public about important policy issues.
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.
To research and distribute information to citizens concerning the general affordability of life, of the economy, and of the environment and advocating for workers and a strong jobs market in colorado.
Promoting a strong state economy with limited government taxes and regulation.
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…
Clear information colorado conducts research, writing, online publication and citizen education on policies that will strengthen the united states of america. these activities will primarily be focused on the following four subject areas:…
The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.
A non-partisan coalition of business leaders committed to improving the state's education system.
To research and distribute information to citizens advocating for workers and a strong jobs market in colorado
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Leadership Program of the Rockies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 43 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 Defend Colorado ↗
- Who funds BETTER JOBS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Rising State Action ↗
- Who funds Children's Enviromental Literacy Fdn ↗
- Who funds LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLORADO'S KIDS ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DAWN ↗
- Who funds GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY OUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CITIZENS PROTECTING OUR CONSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Program of the Rockies ↗
- Who funds READY COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Strive Preparatory Schools ↗
- Who funds FAIR MAPS COLORADO ↗
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: Unite for Colorado · Our Community Our Future · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ready Colorado 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.
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Find your warmest path to Ready Colorado through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.