Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND
COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($7,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Colorado Schools Fund does
Mission
The organization's mission is to support new, outstanding public schools that meet the needs of historically underserved children and aspirations of families across colorado.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our grantmaking is targeted in several areas:-school growth: grants to high-quality public charter schools and other innovative public schools to support successful launch and expansion.-talent & incubation support: grants to organizations and schools to strengthen talent pipelines, including training programs for school founders.-innovative schools strategy: grants for innovative public schools and fellowships to support aspiring school founders-enabling growth and quality: grants to organizations to support strategic planning and quality improvement
$3,965,518 spentof which $3,420,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,965,518.
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
Lydia Hoffman
CEO
Board chair
Jill Anschutz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SCHOOLS FUND’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 SCHOOLS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 SCHOOLS FUND.
“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
99% of COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SCHOOLS FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND: 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 SCHOOLS FUND?
- COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($7,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $10,000,000 in grants to COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND?
- CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 7 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