Colorado · Nonprofit
TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO
TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,274,875 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,160,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Towards Justice of Colorado does
Mission
Towards justice is a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic equity and worker power through impact litigation, strategic policy advocacy, and collaboration with organizers and public agencies. We were founded in response to the high volume of wage theft complaints that were not being addressed in colorado, but have since broadened our scope to take on cases that dismantle the power imbalances that undermine the value of work and diminish worker rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Towards justice is a non-profit law firm that attacks economic inequality with a focus on workplace economic injustice. We use impact litigation to advance human and civil rights supplemented with targeted and strategic policy advocacy and collaboration with workers and communities to attack systemic injustices that undermine the power of workers-in particular, immigrant workers and workers of color-to obtain fair wages and decent working conditions. Towards justice is not a leader of the movement to build worker power, but we are proud to be a lawyer for that movement. From our on-the-ground legal intake program that connects with individuals and helps them assess legal- strategies, to our support drafting and fighting for legislation developed with community groups, to our class actions empowering individuals to represents groups of workers that are too fearful to come forward, we provide the legal tools to help community build power and grow their voice.
$1,803,783 spent$450,743 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,803,783.
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 2018 to 2019, from $183k to $3.4M (+1766%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $467k → $540k.
9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 TOWARDS JUSTICE OF 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
TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
64% 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 TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 74% · 2019 71% · 2020 30% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 39% — 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
63% of TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
57% of TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO's revenue grew 121% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TOWARDS JUSTICE OF 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOWARDS JUSTICE OF 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO?
- TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,274,875 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,160,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,274,875 in grants to TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,160,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOWARDS JUSTICE OF 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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