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Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,388,157 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($962,149). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $650k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $203k
What Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization does
Mission
Empowering Latino communities through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research: a Community participatory research on older Latinos in Colorado addressing problems, aspirations, preferences, and social isolation. b Examination of income transfer strategies for low-income single-parent families. c Survey of emerging issues and concerns in Latino communities in Colorado.
$211,749 spent37% of program spendingAdvocacy Programs: Public policy advocacy network addresses concerns of Latinos throughout the State
$202,423 spent35% of program spendingCapitol Fellows Program trains and places college-level interns with state legislators.
$158,821 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $572,993.
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 2020 to 2021, from $475k to $1.2M (+154%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Mike Cortes
President & CEO
Board chair
Bruno Meli
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $30k → $759k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
44% 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 Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 70% · 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 32% — 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
67% of Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
92% of Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $838k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization: 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 Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization?
- Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,388,157 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($962,149). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,388,157 in grants to Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $962,149 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization 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 31 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