Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION
COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,695,637 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,800,637). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $950k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $2k
What Colorado Opportunity Foundation does
Mission
The Colorado Opportunity Foundation is organized exclusively for public educational purposes, performing research, modeling, analysis, and public education on government policies that expand and grow state and national economic conditions. The Colorado Opportunity Foundation serves as a resource providing practical research and information regarding theoretical and empirical evidence concerning the costs and effectiveness of state and local tax, spending, and regulatory policies. Public education is provided through sources that are available to the general public without restrictions or fees.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Colorado Opportunity Foundation made grants to other charitable organizations to support specific public education activities that are consistent with and advance Colorado Opportunity Foundation's mission and purpose. Colorado Opportunity Foundation's grants to other charitable organizations were limited to defined activities that support the same charitable purpose as Colorado Opportunity Foundation. Colorado Opportunity Foundation has policies and compliance controls in place to ensure recipient organizations: expend grant funding in a manner that is consistent with Colorado Opportunity Foundation purposes and priorities; do not have a family or business relationship with Colorado Opportunity Foundation or its directors; and keep proper financial records related to the amounts and purpose of grant distributions. Colorado Opportunity Foundation monitors the progress of activities achieved through grants.
$1,050,000 spentof which $1,050,000 as grants84% of program spendingThe Colorado Opportunity Foundation conducted research, analysis, and public education supporting policies and regulations impacting state economic growth, including programs that support state rights under the u.s. Constitution. Public education was made available to the general public without restriction through open access websites, published articles, and advertisements that are open and accessible to the general public.
$200,000 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,250,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $938k to $305k (−67%).
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 COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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
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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $1.6M.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION’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 OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 38% · 2022 43% · 2023 45% — 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 OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
70% of COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION'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 $2.6M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M 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.
Against its field
COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION's revenue fell 54% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: 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 OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,695,637 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,800,637). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $8,695,637 in grants to COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,800,637 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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