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Colorado Lawyers Committee
Colorado Lawyers Committee (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $648,312 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($387,892). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $504k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $648k
- Net assets
- $579k
What Colorado Lawyers Committee does
Mission
To provide legal assistance and increase opportunities for children and other disadvantaged communities through advocacy, negotiation and litigation. Volunteer attorneys dedicate time to improve the quality of life for these causes while providing attorneys the ability to meet their professional responsibility of pro bono service to less advantaged segments of the community. Through this, the committee not only meets an obligation to the disadvantaged, it also helps build the future of Colorado and its people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide legal assistance in the areas of foster care, family futures, voting rights, housing, education, and immigration to the poor and other disadvantaged communities.
$292,485 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $292,485.
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 2020 to 2021, from $559k to $647k (+16%).
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: 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Colorado Lawyers Committee’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $62k → $58k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado). These are real filings, and they are not money Colorado Lawyers Committee raised.
From the IRS filings of Colorado Lawyers Committee’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
Colorado Lawyers Committee leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Lawyers Committee.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 63% · 2019 40% · 2020 72% · 2021 78% · 2022 64% · 2023 50% — 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
33% of Colorado Lawyers Committee'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
72% of Colorado Lawyers Committee'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 $181k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $467k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Colorado Lawyers Committee holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Colorado Lawyers Committee
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 Lawyers Committee: 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 Lawyers Committee?
- Colorado Lawyers Committee (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $648,312 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($387,892). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Colorado Lawyers Committee have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $648,312 in grants to Colorado Lawyers Committee, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colorado Lawyers Committee?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $387,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colorado Lawyers Committee 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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