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EIN 46-2634633

Colorado News Collaborative

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
2
City
Denver
State
Colorado
Year formed
2013
Most recent tax filings
2025-12-01
NTEE code, primary
A33: Printing, Publishing
Description
Colorado News Collaborative strengthens high-quality local journalism by powering collaboration among newsrooms, serving as a media resource hub and ideas lab that supports civic engagement and public accountability. It helps outlets work together to produce fair, accurate, fact-based, nonpartisan reporting—especially on elections and everyday public life—that communities can find and understand more easily. Through authentic community engagement and innovative business models, it advances trust-building reporting that holds power to account and reflects what communities care about.
Total revenues
$790,645
2025
Total expenses
$492,538
2025
Total assets
$474,431
2025
Num. employees
2
2025

Program areas at Colorado News Collaborative

Every Coloradan should have access to strong local News. News that is fair and accurate, that informs and educates, that holds power to account and illuminates the life of a local community. Colab exists to help make that access a statewide reality through Collaborative journalism, authentic community engagement and innovative business models. We are a nonprofit that helps News outlets all across Colorado build more fact-based News that makes a difference. We help communities build more trust with those News outlets. That makes for better News; that is, higher quality News that serves all coloradans.

Who funds Colorado News Collaborative

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Rose Community FoundationCapacity Building Support$146,000
Colorado Gives FoundationGeneral Purpose$98,675
Inasmuch FoundationGeneral Operating ($50,000)$50,000
...and 5 more grants received

Financials for Colorado News Collaborative

RevenuesFYE 12/2025
Total grants, contributions, etc.$688,257
Program services$99,194
Investment income and dividends$3,194
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$790,645

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Data update history
July 16, 2026
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025
May 24, 2026
Received grants
Identified 1 new grant, including a grant for $20,000 from Gates Family Foundation (GFF)
May 21, 2026
Updated personnel
Identified 2 new personnel
May 21, 2026
Used new vendors
Identified 2 new vendors, including , and
February 3, 2026
Received grants
Identified 2 new grant, including a grant for $50,000 from Inasmuch Foundation
Nonprofit Types
Grantmaking organizationsArts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsMedia and communications organizationsCharities
Issues
EducationArts, cultural, and humanitiesHuman services
Characteristics
Legally formed as corporationProvides grantsLobbyingState / local levelReceives government fundingCommunity engagement / volunteeringTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
Address
PO Box 40866
Denver, CO 80204
Metro area
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
County
Denver County, CO
Website URL
colabnews.co/ 
Phone
(303) 656-9973
IRS details
EIN
46-2634633
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
2013
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
A33: Printing, Publishing
NAICS code, primary
5111: Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers
Parent/child status
Independent
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