Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC
COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,000 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ($868,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Ready Coloradoshared fundersportfolio match
- Colorado Opportunity Foundationshared funders
- Education Reform Now Advocacy Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $218k → $150k.
From the IRS filings of COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC’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
COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC'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.
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.
- Ready Coloradoshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Opportunity Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Education Reform Now Advocacy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium Dba 35 Milportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brett Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boettcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lawrence N Greenleaf Masonic Building Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ronald And Carol Moore Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC: 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 COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC?
- COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,000 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ($868,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $913,000 in grants to COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC?
- INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $868,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADANS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES INC 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 2019–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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