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CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC

CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,500 to it, the largest being Rose Community Foundation ($29,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$4.8M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$3.0M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Continuing Legal Education in Colorado Inc does

Mission

To provide an organized, sustained program of continuing education for the colorado legal profession.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provides education through the lectures and classes of instruction on various legal and other topics of importance to legal professionals to assist in the continuing development of their professional expertise. Approximately 12,669 attorneys and other professionals attended the organization's programs in 2024.

    $2,895,639 spentof which $12,987 as grants$3,819,190 earned by the program
    74% of program spending
  2. Provides legal education through online videos, mp3s and audios credited for home study, and legal reference books and publications.

  3. Publishes legal reference books and publications for the benefit of the legal community.

    $1,043,651 spent$699,927 earned by the program
    26% of program spending
  4. Other program expenses include online expenses and facilities expenses when in-person. Revenue includes shipping revenue and other revenues.

    $103,979 earned by the program

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,939,290.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($4.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 100 ($5.0M) Expenses 106 ($5.0M) Net assets 99 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 102 ($5.1M) Expenses 119 ($5.6M) Net assets 69 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 87 ($4.3M) Expenses 81 ($3.8M) Net assets 97 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 85 ($4.2M) Expenses 75 ($3.6M) Net assets 137 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 86 ($4.3M) Expenses 90 ($4.3M) Net assets 127 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 91 ($4.5M) Expenses 87 ($4.1M) Net assets 155 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 97 ($4.8M) Expenses 96 ($4.6M) Net assets 168 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (97)Expenses (96)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.9M to $5.5M (+94%).

$2.9M
$5.5M
$4.4M
$4.6M
$5.2M
$4.8M
$5.2M
$5.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$252k
’17
−$17k
’18
−$549k
’19
$520k
’20
$679k
’21
$12k
’22
$404k
’23
$259k
’24
10
months of
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

Daniel A Sweetser

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1819191914161515
Joined·+5+4+5+3+3+3+3
No longer listed·4458143
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $6k.

Funder
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total
Rose Foundationunclassified
$8k
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC’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

CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC.

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.

“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

79% of CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve10.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Colorado Bar Association · exempt
  • Denver Bar Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC?
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,500 to it, the largest being Rose Community Foundation ($29,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $37,500 in grants to CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC?
Rose Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $29,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN COLORADO INC 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 2 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