2023 ANNUAL REPORT GRANTEES
EQUITY & DEMOCRACY
| The 19th News | General Support (Multi-Year) Independent nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, and policy |
$100,000 |
| Alliance for Youth Organizing | General Support (Multi-Year) Supporting a national network of leaders and organizations building the political power of young people |
$100,000 |
| American Independent Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) Nonprofit publication advancing progressive ideas and values through voter education and consistent, nonpartisan language about critical issues |
$50,000 |
| BISC Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) Strengthening democracy through research and public education about the ballot measure process |
$100,000 |
| The Bell Policy Center | General Support (Multi-Year) Public education, nonpartisan research, and policy development to create opportunities for individuals and families to attain economic mobility |
$150,000 |
| Center for Tech and Civic Life | General Support (Multi-Year) Connect Americans with the information they need to become and remain civically engaged |
$150,000 |
| Civic Nation | General Support (Multi-Year) National movement-building hub providing education, training, and resources for people organizing within their communities |
$100,000 |
| CLLARO | General Support (Multi-Year) Empowering Latinos through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research |
$50,000 |
| Cobalt Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) Public education and community organizing projects that promote access to reproductive rights and health care in Colorado |
$300,000 |
| Colorado Center on Law & Policy | General Support (Multi-Year) Research, litigation, and policy advocacy to ensure the well-being and economic security of Coloradans experiencing poverty |
$50,000 |
| Colorado Children’s Campaign | General Support (Multi-Year) Advocacy for and development of data-driven public policies that create financially secure, healthy, and safe families and communities across Colorado |
$75,000 |
| Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable | General Support (Multi-Year) Support for network organizations dedicated to achieving an inclusive, engaged, just, and equitable state for all Coloradans |
$100,000 |
| Colorado Fiscal Institute | General Support (Multi-Year) Fact-based, independent and accessible information and analysis of fiscal and economic issues facing Colorado |
$75,000 |
| Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition | General Support (Multi-Year) Creating a more immigrant-friendly Colorado through capacity building, nonpartisan civic engagement, advocacy, and rapid responses to human rights abuses |
$50,000 |
| Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) | General Support Strengthening high-quality local journalism, supporting civic engagement, and ensuring public accountability |
$2,500 |
| COLOR Latina | General Support (Multi-Year) Community-based advocacy for Latinx individuals and their families with a focus on reproductive justice |
$75,000 |
| Colorado Public Radio | General Support (Multi-Year) Strengthening public media and the delivery of fact-based, comprehensive news |
$40,000 |
| Community Resource Center | General Support (Multi-Year) Guidance, training, and support for advocacy and civic engagement efforts of human service nonprofits |
$75,000 |
| Denver Art Museum | Director of Equity and Employee Experience (Multi-Year) Underwriting for full-time, permanent Director of Equity and Employee Experience at the Museum |
$125,000 |
| Faith in Action Network | General Support (Multi-Year) National network of community-based advocates across faith traditions and spiritual beliefs working together to achieve social, political, and racial justice |
$25,000 |
| Faith in Public Life | General Support (Multi-Year) National movement of clergy and faith leaders united in the pursuit of justice, equality, and the common good |
$25,000 |
| Hopewell Fund | GALvanize USA (Multi-Year) Strengthening democracy through nonpartisan civic empowerment and building the knowledge, agency, and political confidence of women |
$100,000 |
| Hopewell Fund | Pipeline Education Fund (Multi-Year) |
$50,000 |
| Interfaith Alliance of Colorado | General Support (Multi-Year) Promoting justice, religious liberty, and interfaith understanding through relationship building in order to educate, advocate, and catalyze social change |
$30,000 |
| Issue One | General Support (Multi-Year) Strengthening American democracy through coalition-building, election protections, and investigative reporting and analysis |
$50,000 |
| Latina Initiative Colorado | General Support (Multi-Year) Multi-generational and culturally responsive communication, education, and support for the civic engagement of Latinas |
$50,000 |
| Mi Familia Vota Education Fund | General Support (Multi-Year) Working to unite the Latino community and its allies to promote social and economic justice through increased civic participation |
$25,000 |
| MomsRising Education Fund | General Support (Multi-Year) Advocacy and public education about the importance of advancing family economic security |
$100,000 |
| New Era Colorado Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) Advance progressive change in Colorado through multi-issue civic engagement, advocacy, and leadership development |
$75,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Americans for Tax Fairness (Multi-Year) Education, mobilization, and advocacy for comprehensive, progressive tax reform that results in greater federal revenue to reduce inequality and to meet America’s growing needs |
$50,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Campaign for Our Shared Future (Multi-Year) Supporting equitable, anti-racist programs, practices, and policies that sustain schools and ensure opportunity for every child and a brighter future for us all |
$50,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Center for Secure and Modern Elections (Multi-Year) Policy solutions and resources to help all eligible voters participate in our democracy |
$500,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Trusted Elections Fund (Multi-Year) Pooled fund undertaking efforts to strengthen American institutions against challenges to free and fair elections |
$250,000 |
| Panorama Global | Run for Something Civics (Multi-Year) Nonprofit, nonpartisan resources and training for young people of diverse backgrounds interested in becoming public servants at all levels |
$150,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains | General Support (Multi-Year) Comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services, advocacy, and educational programs in the Rocky Mountain region |
$100,000 |
| Political Research Associates | General Support (Multi-Year) Social justice research and strategy center supporting organizations, journalists, civic leaders, and social sectors that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society |
$100,000 |
| ProgressNow Colorado Education | General Support (Multi-Year) Advancing progressive solutions to critical community issues in Colorado |
$75,000 |
| RepresentWomen | General Support (Multi-Year) Strengthening democracy by advancing reforms that break down barriers to gender-balanced representation at all levels of public service |
$50,000 |
| Rewire News Group | General Support (Multi-Year) National publication exclusively dedicated to reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice |
$50,000 |
| State Leadership Project | General Support (Multi-Year) Increasing resources for state-based infrastructure supporting social change |
$500,000 |
| State Voices | General Support (Multi-Year) Backbone organization for network of nonpartisan state coalitions of grassroots organizations breaking down barriers to civic participation |
$250,000 |
| States United Democracy Center | General Support (Multi-Year) Nonpartisan nonprofit organization advancing free, fair, and secure elections |
$100,000 |
| Supermajority Education Fund | General Support (Multi-Year) Gender equity through leadership training and the civic and community engagement of women, particularly young women and women of color |
$100,000 |
| Take Back the Court Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) Research and public education about the viability of expanding the Supreme Court |
$100,000 |
| Tesseract Research Center Inc | General Support (Multi-Year) Promoting public policies based on equal representation, a guaranteed living wage for all working citizens, and a fair tax system in order to build a more stable, prosperous, and inclusive nation |
$35,000 |
| Tides Foundation | Advance Native Political Leadership Education Fund (Multi-Year) Building power in Indigenous communities to protect tribal sovereignty, and advance policies, resources, and leadership to ensure future generations are protected and self-determined |
$25,000 |
| Together Colorado | General Support (Multi-Year) Nonpartisan, multiracial, multi-faith community organizing to place human dignity at the center of public life |
$75,000 |
| United for a New Economy | General Support (Multi-Year) Multiracial community organization building people power and developing leaders in the cities and counties surrounding Denver to create a thriving economy in Colorado |
$80,600 |
| United for a New Economy | Transformative Leadership for Change (Multi-Year) Fellowship for BIPOC executive directors and senior leaders of social justice organizations in Colorado |
$100,000 |
| Voces Unidas de las Montañas | General Support (Multi-Year) Advocacy, leadership, and civic engagement by and for the Latinx community living in the Garfield-Eagle-Pitkin tri-county area |
$75,000 |
| VoteAmerica Inc | General Support (Multi-Year) Public education programs, open platform technology, and access to trusted information to empower everyone to vote |
$100,000 |
| Voter Formation Project | General Support (Multi-Year) Increase underrepresented communities’ participation in civic life through digital communication, experimentation, and knowledge-sharing |
$100,000 |
| Voter Registration Project | General Support (Multi-Year) Nonprofit, nonpartisan voter registration and mobilization of under-represented ethnic and socioeconomic groups in the United States |
$250,000 |
| Windward Fund | Heartland Fund (Multi-Year) Connecting rural leaders with national and regional funders to build permanent civic engagement, issue advocacy, communications, and organizing infrastructure in small towns, small cities, and rural areas of the United States |
$100,000 |
| Women Donors Network | Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund (Multi-Year) Rapid-response resources to build the emergent and emergency infrastructure required to ensure access to abortion care for as many Americans as possible. |
$150,000 |
WOMEN’S ECONOMIC SECURITY
| 9to5 Colorado | General Support (Multi-Year) Advance public policies that strengthen working women’s ability to achieve economic justice and equal opportunities |
$75,000 |
| The Aspen Institute | Ascend at the Aspen Institute (Multi-Year) Catalyst and convener for diverse leaders working across systems and sectors to build intergenerational family prosperity and well-being |
$50,000 |
| Center for African American Health | General Support (Multi-Year) Provide culturally responsive resources for Metro Denver’s African American and Black communities to overcome root causes of health problems |
$25,000 |
| Global Fund for Women | General Support (Multi-Year) International flexible funding in support of grassroots gender justice leaders and movements to create lasting meaningful change |
$50,000 |
| National Women’s Law Center | General Support (Multi-Year) Driving solutions to gender inequity through legal and policy advocacy, research, analysis and public education |
$100,000 |
| New Venture Fund | Women Effect Fund (Multi-Year) Collaborative donor fund supporting programs to achieve economic equity for women and families |
$200,000 |
| Soul 2 Soul Sisters | General Support (Multi-Year) Black Womxn-centered education, organizing, and leadership development with a focus on reproductive justice, and a faith-based response to anti-Black violence in the US |
$25,000 |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | General Support for the Debt Collective (Multi-Year) Support for the operational and educational efforts of the Debt Collective |
$100,000 |
| The Women’s Foundation of Colorado | General Support (Multi-Year) | |
| Catalyzing community to advance and accelerate economic opportunities for Colorado women and their families | $100,000 |
| 2023 Annual Luncheon | $5,000 |
WOMEN’S FUNDS INITIATIVE GRANTSOperating support to expand women’s philanthropy and provide a permanent resource for women and girls in the states where the Chambers family oil business operated. Additionally, Chambers Fund partnered with the Women’s Foundation of Montana to complete its endowment challenge matching campaign; and the Wyoming Women’s Foundation to build its advocacy capacity. |
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| Women’s Foundation of Oklahoma | Operating Support (Multi-Year) |
$50,000 |
| Women’s Foundation of Montana | Operating Support (Multi-Year) |
$50,000 |
| WFM Endowment Challenge Match and Campaign Support (Multi-Year) |
$415,000 |
| Wyoming Women’s Foundation | General Support and Operating Support (Multi-Year) |
$100,000 |
EXCEPTIONAL EXIT GRANTS
| The Bell Policy Center| General Support (Multi-Year) Capacity building and long-term organizational sustainability strategies |
$500,000 |
| Cleo Parker Robinson Dance| General Support (Multi-Year) Capacity-building and long-term sustainability strategies in support of CPRD’s residency program |
$250,000 |
| Colorado Public Radio| General Support (Multi-Year) Support for Colorado’s only statewide media organization with a full-time DC-based correspondent |
$100,000 |
| Communities Foundation of Oklahoma| Women’s Fund Endowment (Multi-Year) Increase the Women’s Foundation of Oklahoma endowment |
$500,000 |
| Denver Art Museum| Fellowship Endowment Fund (Multi-Year) Restricted endowment to support the Museum’s Fellowship Programs, with an emphasis on providing underrepresented candidates opportunities and resources for skill development and cohort learning to increase their potential to attain future jobs |
$500,000 |
| North Shore Country Day School| Scholarship Support (Multi-Year) Merle Catherine Chambers Scholarship Fund |
$20,000 |
| Political Research Associates| General Support (Multi-Year) Support for strategic plan implementation, including capacity-building and long-term sustainability strategies |
$250,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media| General Support (Multi-Year) Sustaining Colorado Voices programming highlighting first-person perspectives from underrepresented communities in Colorado, including rural and indigenous voices |
$12,500 |
| The Women’s Foundation of Colorado| General Support (Multi-Year) WINcome Expansion to establish and/or support direct cash assistance coalition and policy working group in Colorado to advance policies that move resources to individuals earning low or no incomes |
$350,000 |
| Wyoming Community Foundation| Women’s Fund Endowment (Multi-Year) Increase the Wyoming Women’s Foundation endowment |
$500,000 |
HONORED COMMITMENTS
| Alphi Phi Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) | $1,000 |
| Aspen Music Festival and School | General Support (Multi-Year) | $5,000 |
| Central City Opera House Association | General Support (Multi-Year) | $1,000 |
| Cleo Parker Robinson Dance | General Support (Multi-Year) | $10,000 |
| Colorado Ballet | General Support (Multi-Year) | $10,000 |
| Colorado Symphony Association | General Support (Multi-Year) and Honorary Support | $111,000 |
| North Shore Country Day School | General Support (Multi-Year) | $2,000 |
| Opera Colorado | General Support (Multi-Year) | $10,000 |
| Save Venice, Inc. | General Support (Multi-Year) | $10,000 |
| UC Berkeley Foundation| General Support (Multi-Year) | $2,000 |
| UC Law SF Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) | $2,000 |
| University of Denver | General Support (Multi-Year) | $500 |
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
| Compassion & Choices | The Jaren Drucker Colorado Access and Protection Fund (Multi-Year) | $750 |
| Forgotten Felines Rescue | General Support | $500 |
| Goodwill of Colorado | General Support (Multi-Year) | $2,500 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | General Support (Multi-Year) | $500 |
| Memberships | COFIE, Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, Philanthropy Colorado, DFN-Political Violence Working Group | $19,110 |
| Honorary and Memorial Gifts | $2,000 |
| Matching Gifts | $2,500 |
TOTAL 2023 GRANTS |
$10,332,960 |