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The Colorado Education Initiative

See schedule o.cei's mission is to champion, empower, and ignite colorado leaders to deliver on the promise of public education to develop thriving young people and flourishing communities.

$88k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$2.9MEnvironment$590kScience & Tech$163kCommunity Improvement$142kArts & Culture$111kHealth$104kYouth Development$68kEmployment$36kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $37,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $88,465 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,965 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANON CITY SCHOOLS$15,000
DURANGO SCHOOL DISTRICT 9R$15,000
COLORADO ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ADMINS AND SUPERINTENDENTS$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO: $25k → 15%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $30k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 13% of The Colorado Education Initiative’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Colorado Education Initiativelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 25 repeat orgs$890k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
49

Total granted

$3.3M
$882k

Still filing today

0%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CE
    COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $579k
  • CS
    COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11
    6× · 2017–2022 · $437k
  • SF
    SANTA FE TRAIL BOCES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $283k

Funded once

  • MS
    MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $88k
  • CS
    Colorado Succeedsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $67k · revenue +150%
  • BV
    BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    2× · 2018–2024 · $53k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ascend College Prep

Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…

Education
2
Colorado Association of School Executives

Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education

3
Pikes Peak School of Expeditionary Learning

Provide education for students in Pre-K through 8th grade, benefitting approximately 415 students.

Education
4
Public Education & Business Coalition

Every child deserves a great educator. pebc works across the nation to prepare outstanding new teachers, help practicing teachers and leaders become exceptional, and shape systems and policies in order to foster vibrant growth and lasting…

Education
5
Agile Learner Fund

The Agile Learner Fund is a nonprofit organization of Colorado Succeeds. As a supporting organization, ALF exists for the express purpose of supporting activities that benefit Colorado Succeeds' mission, vision, and core strategies. More…

Education
6
Goal Academy

GOAL Academy is an alternative education online blended high school serving students across the state of Colorado. GOAL's mission statement is "to develop productive members of society". GOAL's vision statement is "to help all students…

Education
7
Colorado Early Colleges

Every student regardless of background or skill level will achieve mastery and will demonstrate that they can succeed in high school in college and in their chosen career. no exceptons no excuses.

Education
8
The Colorado Education Initiative

See schedule o.cei's mission is to champion, empower, and ignite colorado leaders to deliver on the promise of public education to develop thriving young people and flourishing communities. cei's long-term vision is that all young people…

Arts & Culture
9
Ilearn Collaborative

ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…

Education
10
Southwest Colorado Education Collaborati

The Southwest Colorado Education Collaborative strengthens diverse communities byproviding pathways in career readiness and higher education for students to build21st-century skills and economically viable futures.

Education
11
Great Education Colorado

Great education colorado harnesses the power of grassroots activism and diverse, inclusive networks to guarantee that public schools in every colorado community are welcoming and adequately, equitably, and sustainably funded

Education
12
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Early Milestones Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Co-Alas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health & Behavior…Early Childhood Care CentersTeacher Unions and Educatio…Arts & Culture InstitutionsPolicy Research and AdvocacyLegal Services and Policy A…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%11%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%36%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr12%4%35–55yr13%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%45%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr12%9%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/86
the rest of the field
13%
3,629/27,249

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

33 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE — $578,594 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICECOLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11 — $436,812 · OtherCOLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11SANTA FE TRAIL BOCES — $282,500 · OtherSANTA FE TRAIL BOCESTHOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT — $250,861 · OtherTHOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICTMESA COUNTY VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 51 — $235,258 · OtherMESA COUNTY VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 51San Juan BOCES — $226,402 · OtherSan Juan BOCESWeld County School District 6 — $217,848 · OtherWeld County School District 6ADAMS 12 FIVE STAR SCHOOLS — $157,500 · OtherJEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $138,839 · Other+44 more — $1,225,147 · Other+44 moreMOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC — $87,500 · EducationColorado Succeeds — $66,886 · EducationGRAND BEGINNINGS — $20,000 · EducationAXIS International Academy — $15,000 · EducationCompass Academy — $15,000 · EducationSUMMIT54 — $15,000 · Education5280 HIGH SCHOOL — $14,650 · EducationAtlas Preparatory School Inc — $11,950 · Education+7 more — $60,000 · EducationEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO — $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE POWERHOUSE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTEAM UP — $35,000 · PhilanthropyPROWERS ECONOMIC PROSPERITY INC — $11,500 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,749,761Education$305,986Human Services$55,000Arts & Culture$40,000Philanthropy$35,000Community Improvement$21,500Youth Development$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetColorado Succeeds — $66,886 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE — $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEAM UP — $35,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND BEGINNINGS — $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAXIS International Academy — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCompass Academy — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMIT54 — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc — $11,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROWERS ECONOMIC PROSPERITY INC — $11,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetStrive Preparatory Schools — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpower Community High School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMoonshot edVentures — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontessori del Mundo Charter School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCO-ALAS — $7,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHigh Point Academy — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMB HIGHER COLORADO — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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 MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds Colorado Succeeds
  • Who funds THE POWERHOUSE
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County
  • Who funds TEAM UP
  • Who funds EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC
  • Who funds GRAND BEGINNINGS
  • Who funds You Be You Early Learning
  • Who funds AXIS International Academy
  • Who funds Compass Academy

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.

The Denver FoundationCO54× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Caring for Colorado Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Round It Up America Inc

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 The Colorado Education Initiative 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $489k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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