Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE
COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,912,735 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,502,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Colorado People's Alliance does
Mission
Colorado People's Alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. Copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans through leadership development, organizing and alliance building.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We are spearheading the battle for climate, immigrant, economic and racial justice locally and across the nation. We work so that: - all community members have a clean, safe and healthy environment and local polluters are held accountable. - every coloradan is provided equitable opportunites for economic prosperity, and is able to live and work with dignity. - the human rights of all people in colorado are protected, regardless of citizenship status.
$1,326,938 spentof which $8,750 as grants$75,571 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,326,938.
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 $2.3M to $3.7M (+59%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Jose Torres-Vega
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income rose $214k → $774k.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $33k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Colorado People's Action). These are real filings, and they are not money COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
48% 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 PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 33% · 2021 46% · 2022 35% · 2023 36% — 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
39% of COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Colorado People's Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: 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 PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE?
- COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,912,735 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,502,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $6,912,735 in grants to COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,502,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing