Colorado · Nonprofit
CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER
CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,170,141 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,550,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $52k
What Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center does
Mission
To defend human and civil rights secured by law, including but not limited to laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability, race, gender, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Continued monitoring compliance with curb remediation requirements imposed on 5 municipalities as a result of our earlier litigation, enforced the public records requirements and obtained critical records from federal agencies, continued monitoring of agreement with a school district to ensure continued access to special education programs and filed an appeal to court's decision holding that the state could not be sued to ensure compliance by school districts with state consitutional protections. Continued litigating two cases challenging police practices that resulted in the death of a disabled individual and the unlawful incarceration of another. --------------- more detail on schedule o --------------------
$1,110,519 spent$725,019 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,110,519.
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 2019 to 2020, from $667k to $2.4M (+265%).
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: 2021 8% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $75k → $350k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER’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
CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 57% · 2021 58% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% — 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
29% of CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k 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
CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER: 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 CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER?
- CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,170,141 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,550,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,170,141 in grants to CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER 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.
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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 15 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