How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Colorado?

Start with the funders already giving to education in Colorado, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Colorado from out of state.

Who is the largest education funder in Colorado?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in Colorado, $283M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to education in Colorado?

$4.1B reached 1,795 education organizations in Colorado, from 5,356 funders. 40% came from funders also based in Colorado.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Colorado · Education

Who funds education in Colorado

$4.1B reached 1,795 education organizations in Colorado, from 5,356 funders, with no single one dominating.

$4.1B

granted

1,795

organizations

40%

from in-state

The short version

5,356 funders gave $4.1B to 1,795 education organizations in Colorado across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
40% of that came from funders also based in Colorado; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of education in Colorado is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $283M.
The education organization drawing the most is Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, at $824M.

Largest funders of education in Colorado

The funders giving the most to education organizations in Colorado, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$283M 2Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$184M 3The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$157M 4Gates Foundation$146M 5Walton Family Foundation Inc$129M 6Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$102M 7The Colorado Health Foundation$76M 8The Denver Foundation$75M 9National Philanthropic Trust$75M 10Silicon Valley Community Foundation$73M

Education organizations in Colorado that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,785 other education organizations$1.9B

Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund$824M University of Colorado Foundation$472M American Indian College Fund$196M University of Denver$160M Alliance for Choice in Education$158M Colorado State University Foundation$148M The Colorado College$97M

How to find education funders in Colorado

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Start with the funders already active in Colorado
The funders giving the most to education in Colorado are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc. A funder already writing education checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the education organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
60% of education money in Colorado comes from funders elsewhere, so national education funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Colorado.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Colorado?: Start with the funders already giving to education in Colorado, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Colorado from out of state.
Who is the largest education funder in Colorado?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in Colorado, $283M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to education in Colorado?: $4.1B reached 1,795 education organizations in Colorado, from 5,356 funders. 40% came from funders also based in Colorado.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.