Colorado · Nonprofit
CAREERWISE COLORADO
CAREERWISE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,671,628 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($7,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Careerwise Colorado does
Mission
Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Careerwise is a pioneering nonprofit that catalyzes the development of business-led, modern youth apprenticeship programs and systems in communities, regions and states across the country. In just ten years, careerwise has not only successfully launched and grown a coalition of businesses and schools in its flagship locations who are redefining apprenticeship for the 21st century by implementing the model, but careerwise has also built the capacity to consult with and support other communities looking to do the same. Careerwise tools, technologies and processes, built and refined in colorado and new york, are now being leveraged by a growing national network of partner initiatives seeking to close the gap between education and employment to enable more equitable economic and educational outcomes. Combining paid, on-the-job training with continued classroom education at secondary and postsecondary institutions, careerwise's modern youth apprenticeships provide benefit to employers, students and society alike. Successful apprentices are equipped to succeed in career and/or college, widening the door to opportunity by multiplying their options and cultivating a more skilled workforce…
$10,226,958 spentof which $1,408,121 as grants$1,958,231 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,226,958.
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. 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 $7.3M to $15M (+111%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 4% · 2021 35% · 2022 17% · 2023 13% · 2024 28% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of CAREERWISE COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Noel Ginsburg
CEO and chai
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $480k → $13M.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CAREERWISE COLORADO’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
CAREERWISE COLORADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 CAREERWISE COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 66% · 2019 42% · 2020 44% · 2021 61% · 2022 37% · 2023 53% — 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
64% of CAREERWISE COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 FY2023, 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
57% of CAREERWISE COLORADO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CAREERWISE COLORADO's revenue grew 68% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CAREERWISE COLORADO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.5M on record.
- Department of Labor$10.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CAREERWISE 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Careerwise USA · exempt
- Careerwise New York Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAREERWISE 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 CAREERWISE COLORADO?
- CAREERWISE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,671,628 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($7,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAREERWISE COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $30,671,628 in grants to CAREERWISE COLORADO, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAREERWISE COLORADO?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $7,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAREERWISE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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