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COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION

EIN 84-4409670 ENGLEWOOD, CO

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Revenue 2024
$950,000
Expenses 2024
$1,253,352

Program services were 99.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R05
Classification
1000
Street
6501 E BELLEVIEW AVE STE 375

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

6 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 375). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION IS ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, PERFORMING RESEARCH, MODELING, ANALYSIS, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION ON GOVERNMENT POLICIES THAT EXPAND AND GROW STATE AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. THE COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION SERVES AS A RESOURCE PROVIDING PRACTICAL RESEARCH AND INFORMATION REGARDING THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE CONCERNING THE COSTS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF STATE AND LOCAL TAX, SPENDING, AND REGULATORY POLICIES. PUBLIC EDUCATION IS PROVIDED THROUGH SOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS OR FEES.

  • COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION MADE GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTIVITIES THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH AND ADVANCE COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION'S MISSION AND PURPOSE. COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION'S GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS WERE LIMITED TO DEFINED ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT THE SAME CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION. COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION HAS POLICIES AND COMPLIANCE CONTROLS IN PLACE TO ENSURE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATIONS: EXPEND GRANT FUNDING IN A MANNER THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION PURPOSES AND PRIORITIES; DO NOT HAVE A FAMILY OR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OR ITS DIRECTORS; AND KEEP PROPER FINANCIAL RECORDS RELATED TO THE AMOUNTS AND PURPOSE OF GRANT DISTRIBUTIONS. COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION MONITORS THE PROGRESS OF ACTIVITIES ACHIEVED THROUGH GRANTS.

    Expenses $1,050,000 · Grants $1,050,000

  • THE COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION CONDUCTED RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORTING POLICIES AND REGULATIONS IMPACTING STATE ECONOMIC GROWTH, INCLUDING PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT STATE RIGHTS UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. PUBLIC EDUCATION WAS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITHOUT RESTRICTION THROUGH OPEN ACCESS WEBSITES, PUBLISHED ARTICLES, AND ADVERTISEMENTS THAT ARE OPEN AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

    Expenses $200,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michael Fields

    PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sean Tonner

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Luke Ragland

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $950,000
    Expenses
    $1,253,352
    Contributions
    $950,000
    Grants paid
    $1,050,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $950,000
    Expenses
    $1,253,352
    Contributions
    $950,000
    Grants paid
    $1,050,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,700,000
    Expenses
    $3,332,008
    Contributions
    $2,700,000
    Grants paid
    $3,088,250
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,425,000
    Expenses
    $2,225,001
    Contributions
    $2,425,000
    Grants paid
    $1,985,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,525,000
    Expenses
    $2,210,851
    Assets (EOY)
    $737,507

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,045,662
    Expenses
    $1,622,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $423,358

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.