Colorado · Nonprofit
GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND
GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,640 to it, the largest being DENVER AREA EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSORTIUM DBA 35 MIL ($34,640). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Great Education Colorado Action Fund does
Mission
Great Education Colorado Action Fund is a nonpartisan, statewide, nonprofit dedicated to improving investment in public education in colorado. Through education empowerment, the organization reaches the most powerful voices in the state-the citizens and voters, the vocal united advocates, for more wiser investment in public education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Engaging indivudals or groups to advocate for or against specific legislation, policy initiatives or ballot initiatives, including preparing material for presentations, developing email communications and social media content.
$7,758 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,758.
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 2017 to 2018, from $130k to $10k (−92%).
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.
0% of GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Weil
Executive director
Board chair
Sue Catterall
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $575k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Great Education Colorado). These are real filings, and they are not money GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Great Education Colorado · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION 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 GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND?
- GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,640 to it, the largest being DENVER AREA EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSORTIUM DBA 35 MIL ($34,640). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34,640 in grants to GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND?
- DENVER AREA EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSORTIUM DBA 35 MIL is the largest funder on record, with $34,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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