Colorado · Nonprofit
ADVANCE COLORADO
ADVANCE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,986,271 to it, the largest being COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,640,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Advance Colorado does
Mission
Advance Colorado is a charitable non-profit organization that serves a public education mission. Advance Colorado educates citizens on principles to enhance and strengthen active citizenship in a democracy. Specific public education issues include: government fiscal responsibility; government transparency and accountability; limited government; free enterprise; lower taxes, strong public safety, and an accountable education system. Advance Colorado makes public education materials available to the general public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Through its website, which is open to the general public, Advance Colorado provided hundreds of public educational materials related to the organization's mission. These public educational materials included podcasts, citizen guides, white papers, research and analysis, issue-based polling, and newsletters. These materials provided fact-based answers to issues that are critical to sustaining and supporting free and open democracy in the united states. In addition, representatives of Advance Colorado accepted all invitations to speak to citizen groups across colorado about these issues.
$4,581,577 spentof which $2,424,300 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,581,577.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $529k to $1.2M (+124%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of ADVANCE COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $3.0M.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADVANCE COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVANCE COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVANCE COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 85% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ADVANCE COLORADO's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADVANCE COLORADO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ADVANCE COLORADO
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCE COLORADO: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVANCE COLORADO?
- ADVANCE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,986,271 to it, the largest being COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,640,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCE COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $8,986,271 in grants to ADVANCE COLORADO, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCE COLORADO?
- COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,640,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCE COLORADO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing