· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+6 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO DAWN | $2,710,000 |
| UNITE FOR COLORADO ACTION IEC | $2,700,000 |
| READY COLORADO | $560,000 |
| COLORADO TAXPAYER ADVOCATE FUND | $400,000 |
| WESTERN CITIZENS PROTECTING OUR CONSTITUTION | $250,000 |
| ACCOUNTABILITY COLORADO ACTION COMMITTEE | $250,000 |
| RECALL PRIOLA ACTION COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| RESTORE COLORADO LEADERSHIP FUND IEC | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k 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
- UFUNITE FOR COLORADO ACTION IEC2× · 2020–2022 · $4.3M
- DCDefend Colorado3× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue -73% · 86% of their budget
- CDCOLORADO DAWN4× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M · revenue ×18 · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCOMMITTEE FOR SPENDING TRANSPARENCYone grant, 2021 · $1.3M
- CPCUT PROPERTY TAXESone grant, 2021 · $875k
- PTPublic Trust Instituteone grant, 2020 · $310k · revenue -80% · 41% 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 conduct research, promote community engagement, and provide an amalgamation of information to the citizens of colorado.
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:…
Our mission is to expand solar and storage markets and to generate jobs and prosperity for the people of Colorado. Together with hundreds of solar and storage business members we work to advance clean energy policies, remove market…
Educate the general public about important policy issues.
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…
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.
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.
The Colorado Energy Foundation was incorporated in 2019 as a 501(c)(3) supporting organization of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and seeks to amplify existing philanthropic efforts of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and develop…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Western Way Action. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 22 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 COLORADO DAWN ↗
- Who funds READY COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO TAXPAYERS' ADVOCATE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds Public Trust Institute ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN POLICY GROUP ↗
- Who funds Protect Colorados Vote ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CITIZENS PROTECTING OUR CONSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PRFRS ↗
- Who funds Colorado Rising State Action ↗
- Who funds BETTER JOBS COALITION ↗
- Who funds COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC ↗
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: Ready Colorado · Colorado Opportunity Foundation · Our Community Our Future
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 Unite for 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.