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Defend Colorado

EIN 83-3211413 Centennial, CO

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Revenue 2024
$904,533
Expenses 2024
$910,803

Program services were 99.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
9615 E County Rd B-294

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of the organization is to conduct research and analysis of conditions affecting the Colorado state economy and promote policies that strengthen the state economy.

  • General education and ligitation program opposing state legislation and policies that negatively impact the Colorado state economy.

    Expenses $907,272 · Grants $244,271

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Katie Kennedy

    Director

    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
    $904,533
    Expenses
    $910,803
    Contributions
    $904,204
    Grants paid
    $244,271
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,994,012
    Expenses
    $3,221,696
    Contributions
    $2,992,700
    Grants paid
    $2,962,875
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,441,184
    Expenses
    $3,380,082
    Contributions
    $1,440,000
    Grants paid
    $2,310,739

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
    $3,309,614
    Expenses
    $1,338,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,195,227

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

  • DEFEND IEC

    $1,316,250

    2022 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • UNITE FOR COLORADO

    $994,489

    2022 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • AURORANS FOR SAFE AND PROSPEROUS

    $626,000

    2023 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • VOTER APPROVAL ON PROPRTY TAX INC

    $600,000

    2023 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • NO ON HH

    $600,000

    2023 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • UNITE FOR COLORADO

    $525,000

    2023 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP

    $465,000

    2023 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • Unite for Colorado

    $109,271

    2024 General Assistance

  • CITIZENS FOR PROTECTING OUR WATER

    $100,000

    2023 GENERAL ASSISTANCE

  • Safety and Justice for All PA

    $95,000

    2024 General Assistance

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.