Colorado · Nonprofit
New Era Colorado Foundation
New Era Colorado Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,698,230 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($5,422,447). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What New Era Colorado Foundation does
Mission
New Era Colorado Foundation Organizes young people to participate in the political process, develop as leaders, and find a political home.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
New Era Colorado Foundation reinvents civic engagement for young people, mobilizingand empowering a new generation to make Colorado a better place for everyone. Throughour nonpartisan voter registration and GOTV efforts, we have registered over 200,000young people to vote. We've advocated for change on the issues young people careabout in Colorado, educated young people on the issues facing Colorado both locally and statewidethat affect them, and worked to gain critical protections for student loanborrowers, voter preregistration for 15 and 17 year olds, and guaranteed campus voterservice centers and drop boxes."_
$2,467,214 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,467,214.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $3.7M (+98%).
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.
96% of New Era Colorado Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Cody Ostenson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $552k → $1.8M.
25 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 New Era Colorado Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
New Era Colorado Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
50% 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 New Era Colorado Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 25% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 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
55% of New Era Colorado Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
New Era Colorado Foundation draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
New Era Colorado Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like New Era Colorado Foundation
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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
- New Era Colorado Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Era Colorado Foundation: 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 New Era Colorado Foundation?
- New Era Colorado Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,698,230 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($5,422,447). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Era Colorado Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $14,698,230 in grants to New Era Colorado Foundation, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Era Colorado Foundation?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,422,447 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Era Colorado Foundation 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 67 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