Colorado · Nonprofit
Expunge Colorado
Expunge Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,498 to it, the largest being CLEAN SLATE INITIATIVE INC ($96,998). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $269k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Expunge Colorado does
Mission
Expunge Colorado is a women/BIPOC-led, 501c3 Colorado non-profit dedicated to serving justice impacted people and their communities by providing education, training, consultation and access to pro bono legal services for record sealing of eligible criminal cases in Colorado.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Clean Slate Law coalition statewide advocacy effort making necessary improvements to current CO Clean Slate Law which expanded eligibility and removed fees improving access to automated record sealing in CO. Provided community-informed expertise on the implementation of automated expungement/sealing, Activated and organizing directly impacted communities. Continue to share, advocate and amplify justice-impacted individuals' voices and their stories. Uploaded testimonials online to break the stigma and promote the need for further advocacy and education on record sealing in CO.
$33,547 spentof which $32,000 as grants30% of program spending7th Annual 2024 Record Sealing Clinic. Implemented a new intake application and process efficiencies to effectively serve Colorado's justice-impacted community making significant clinic improvements. Reviewed clinic participants' criminal history, determined eligibility, provided pro bono record sealing legal services and client communications, covering all processing fees providing beginning to end direct service. Second year in a row providing a limited spring program helping expand the frequency of our services and serve more people in need. Trained 30 legal volunteers and provided 2 CLE credits for attorney volunteers. Engaged local community partners and provided economic development resources: jobs, re-entry services and health and wellness. Beneficiaries: Participants: 66, Volunteers: 41, Staff: 2 Accomplishments: Most people served within this tax year, 2024-2025: 101 people and their criminal history reviewed and provided consultations, 78 cases successfully sealed, impacting clinic participants, their families and their communities by removing barriers to obtaining jobs, housing, financial aid and enabling people to move forward in life with dignity.
$77,781 spent70% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,328.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $115k to $135k (+17%).
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.
95% of Expunge Colorado’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $123k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Expunge Colorado’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
Expunge Colorado leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Expunge Colorado.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 41% — 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.
Where its funders are
Expunge Colorado draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k 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
Expunge Colorado's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Expunge Colorado
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Expunge Colorado: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Expunge Colorado?
- Expunge Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,498 to it, the largest being CLEAN SLATE INITIATIVE INC ($96,998). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Expunge Colorado have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $269,498 in grants to Expunge Colorado, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Expunge Colorado?
- CLEAN SLATE INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Expunge Colorado 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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