Colorado · Nonprofit
CLCS ACTION
CLCS ACTION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,464,705 to it, the largest being Colorado League of Charter Schools ($1,560,705). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CLCS ACTION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 432 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 432 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rootedshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationshared funders
- Ready Coloradoportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of CLCS ACTION’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $225k → $306k.
From the IRS filings of CLCS ACTION’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
CLCS ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 CLCS ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 44% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — 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
CLCS ACTION draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you typical among the 398 organizations that share them.
- Rootedshared funderslocalportfolio matchCO · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 59 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationshared fundersTN · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Ready Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium Dba 35 Milportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Colorado Education Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Alliance for Public Charter Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stand for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yes Every Kid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brett Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyraportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Education Fund Incshared fundersTN · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CLCS ACTION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Clcs Action Iec · exempt
- Clcs Action 527 · exempt
- Clcs Action Sdc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLCS ACTION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CLCS ACTION?
- CLCS ACTION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,464,705 to it, the largest being Colorado League of Charter Schools ($1,560,705). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLCS ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,464,705 in grants to CLCS ACTION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLCS ACTION?
- Colorado League of Charter Schools is the largest funder on record, with $1,560,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLCS ACTION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing