Colorado · Nonprofit
BETTER JOBS COALITION
BETTER JOBS COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,240,000 to it, the largest being READY COLORADO ($890,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $0
What Better Jobs Coalition does
Mission
Better Jobs Coalition engages in social welfare activities by educating the general public on federal and state policies by supporting forums, educational materials, and directing resources to support and improve colorado's economic environment and job market. Better Jobs Coalition does this by focusing on education reform, safe and drug free communities and workplaces, and creating a forum through which ideas on these important issues can be freely exchanged.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Better job coalition provides education to employers and the public on education reform, safe and drug free communities and workplaces, and education about the u.s. Constitution.
$185,946 spentof which $46,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $185,946.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $97k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Rick Enstrom
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $479k → $280k.
From the IRS filings of BETTER JOBS COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BETTER JOBS COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 BETTER JOBS COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 90% · 2019 88% · 2020 98% · 2021 60% · 2022 64% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of BETTER JOBS COALITION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of BETTER JOBS COALITION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like BETTER JOBS COALITION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER JOBS COALITION: 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 BETTER JOBS COALITION?
- BETTER JOBS COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,240,000 to it, the largest being READY COLORADO ($890,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER JOBS COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,240,000 in grants to BETTER JOBS COALITION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER JOBS COALITION?
- READY COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $890,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER JOBS COALITION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing