Charity Directory
At the core of the My Colorado experience are the nonprofit charitable organizations who strive to implement your interests regarding positive change. Each of the charities listed below is classified as a 501c3 organization by the Internal Revenue Service. Not only do your gifts to these organizations help them to accomplish their missions, but your gifts are also tax deductible as well.
The My Colorado charity list currently consists of 115 nonprofits in the Colorado community who work for positive change in one or more of the Cause Channel categories.
We recognize that your favorite nonprofit organization might not currently have a place on My Colorado. If you’d like to nominate a charity organization, please email admin@mycoloradoproject.org for more information.
Charity | Description | Subscribe |
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| 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women | We work to improve the workplace for women and strengthen the ability of low-wage working women to win economic justice and rights on the job. | Join |
| Adoption Exchange | We help hundreds of abused, abandoned, and neglected Colorado children in need of loving families for adoption. | Join |
| Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado | We build and sustain Jewish life in Colorado, Israel, and around the world. | Join |
| American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Colorado | We safeguard the freedoms and Constitutional civil rights and liberties of all Coloradans through public education, advocacy, and legal help when thos | Join |
| American Friends Service Committee | To promote a more just world, we organize citizen allies in support of immigrant rights. We also organize youth to oppose the poverty draft and the mi | Join |
| Art Students League of Denver | The Art Students League of Denver is the metro area's premier non-profit community resource for teaching, creating, selling, collecting, and supportin | Join |
| Association for Senior Citizens | We help low-income seniors with emergency financial assistance, information and referrals, food bank, “Friendly Visitor” program, warm clothing, and a | Join |
| Beacon Youth and Family Center | Beacon Center serves at-risk adolescents in residential care and community/home services, including individualized and group treatment, education, an | Join |
| Bicycle Colorado | Building a bicycle-friendly Colorado! Teaching bicycle safety, createing safe routes to school, protecting open space, and ensuring Coloradoans have f | Join |
| Big City Mountaineers | We provide meaningful mentoring experiences for urban, under resourced teens through team-mentoring outdoor trips. | Join |
| Carriage House | The Carriage House is a community for homeless individuals. We provide immediate survival needs and services which lead to employment, housing, stabi | Join |
| CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties | CASA recruits and trains community volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children in the court system, in the pursuit of safe, permanent ho | Join |
| Cat Care Society | We shelter cats in a cage-free environment, provide appropriate adoptions and community service programs, including a cat clinic for qualifying low-in | Join |
| Center for Work Education and Employment (CWEE) | We provide programs that help low-income adults prepare for, find, and keep permanent employment, enabling them to become economically self-sufficient | Join |
| Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores | Centro Humanitario promotes the rights and well-being of day laborers in Denver through education, job skill and leadership development, united action | Join |
| CHARG Resource Center | We are a community of Denver’s mentally ill citizens, partnering with professionals to run a drop-in center, psychiatric clinic, homeless outreach and | Join |
| Children's Outreach Project | We offer an integrated, quality early childhood and kindergarten education to typical, accelerated, and developmentally delayed children. | Join |
| Citizens Project | Educates and mobilizes people to strengthen the traditional American values of equal rights, individual freedoms, separation of church and state, civi | Join |
| Clínica Tepeyac | We are a community-based health clinic providing basic medical and prevention education to uninsured Latinos while encouraging youth to pursue futures | Join |
| Colorado Anti-Violence Program | We work to eliminate violence within and against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and ensure quality services are provided to the | Join |
| Colorado CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) | Colorado CASA advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the state by promoting volunteer mobilization and supporting CASA p | Join |
| Colorado Consumer Health Initiative | We work to ensure barrier-free access to quality, affordable health care for all Coloradans through consensus and statewide coalition building with ou | Join |
| Colorado Environmental Coalition | We are a statewide conservation organization of 3,400 individuals and 85 groups, committed to preserving and protecting Colorado’s environment and qua | Join |
| Colorado HAWKS (Hard at Work Kids) | We provide and foster the discipline necessary for at-risk, disadvantaged youth to achieve a college education through sports scholarships. | Join |
| Colorado Mountain Club | Colorado Mountain Club is a membership organization serving hikers and climbers in Colorado | Join |
| Colorado Open Lands | With Charity Navigator's highest rating for four consecutive years, we are a land conservation organization instrumental in protecting 190,000+ acres | Join |
| Colorado Preservation Inc. | Colorado Preservation, Inc. builds a future for historic buildings, landscapes, and communities through advocacy, education, and project assistance. | Join |
| Colorado Public Radio | Serves as an educational and cultural resource for Colorado by broadcasting both in-depth news and classical music 24-hours per day across the state. | Join |
| Colorado Reptile Humane Society | We promote a better life for reptiles and amphibians through humane care of neglected pet trade animals, permanent adoptive homes, husbandry education | Join |
| Colorado Wild | We work throughout the forested high country of the Southern Rocky Mountains to protect and restore the habitat of native plants and animals. | Join |
| Colorado Wildlife Federation | We promote the conservation, sound management, and sustainable use of Colorado’s wildlife and wildlife habitat through education and advocacy. | Join |
| Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation | Colorado’s wildlife foundation since 1989, working to ensure a wildlife legacy for Colorado today and tomorrow by securing and managing funds for wild | Join |
| Colorado Women's Agenda | A women's social justice network advocating statewide for economic security, political empowerment, and race equity through grassroots organizing, com | Join |
| Colorado Youth at Risk | We provide mentoring and drop-out prevention programs for youth at risk of academic failure, serving students 9th-12th grade. | Join |
| Colorado Youth Corps Association | CYCA supports youth conservation corps programs that engage youth throughout the state in conservation service projects to protect and enhance Colorad | Join |
| Colorado Youth Program | CYP connects underprivileged kids with nature and their communities with summer camps, after school volunteer projects, weekend recreation outings, mo | Join |
| CoLours TV | Focusing on America's culturally diverse audience, CoLours TV inspires and educates viewers by providing community-based and national programs address | Join |
| Community Resources Inc. | We work with community volunteers to provide thousands of classroom programs, family involvement events, mentorships and special events for at-risk st | Join |
| Community Shares Fund | Designations to the Shares Fund are divided among all Community Shares of Colorado member agencies. | Join |
| Community Shares of Colorado | Community Shares provides funding, raises awareness, and marshals resources for our 115 member nonprofits working to provide local solutions in our co | Join |
| Demo Charity | We provide support to the nonprofits of My Colorado | Join |
| Denver Hospice | We provide the most comprehensive hospice and palliative care services to members of our community with an unprecedented level of comfort, compassion, | Join |
| Denver International Program | We build understanding among people and nations through cross-cultural exchange, professional development, and internships supporting service agencies | Join |
| Denver SCORES | Denver SCORES uses the tools of soccer, poetry, and service learning to inspire and empower Denver's urban youth. | Join |
| Denver Urban Ministries | DenUM provides emergency services in Denver's most impoverished neighborhoods. Services include: food, weekly produce, rental and utility assistance, | Join |
| Denver Young Nonprofit Professionals Network | Denver YNPN creates a support, information sharing, and advocacy network for young nonprofit sector leaders. | Join |
| DenverWorks Inc. | DenverWorks equips the unemployed and low-income, including former offenders, to obtain and retain full-time, permanent, career-based jobs by providin | Join |
| Diana Price-Fish Cancer Foundation | Devoted to helping adult cancer patients and their families enjoy life by providing access to participation in enjoyable activities of their choice. | Join |
| Doctors Care | Provides health care for children and adults residing in South Metro Denver who cannot pay the full cost of their medical care. | Join |
| Domestic Violence Initiative for Women with Disabilities | We assist women with disabilities who have experienced domestic violence by providing referrals, peer support, education, and advocacy. | Join |
| Earthlinks, Inc. | We connect homeless and at-risk, low-income persons with nature, offering innovative programs, and support toward empowering life changes. | Join |
| Eco Cycle, Inc. | We are dedicated to expanding local recycling opportunities, building a model Zero Waste community and pioneering resource conservation | Join |
| El Centro Su Teatro | We are a multidisciplinary cultural arts organization that strives to preserve, develop, and promote Chicano and Latino art and culture. | Join |
| Ellicott Wildlife Rehabilitation Center | We provide compassionate care to sick, injured, and orphaned wild bird and small mammals for the purposes of release and education. | Join |
| Empowerment Program | We provide services to women who are homeless, work as prostitutes, have a mental illness, and/or live with HIV/Aids. | Join |
| Environment Colorado | We protect Colorado’s air, water, and open spaces by promoting renewable energy, smart growth, and forest preservation. | Join |
| Environmental Learning for Kids - ELK | ELK is a community-based organization dedicated to providing science education, mentoring, career development, and stewardship programs to low-income, | Join |
| Family Star | Family Star Montessori provides childcare and education for kids 0-6. We offer dual language programs encouraging community diversity. | Join |
| Flatirons Habitat for Humanity | We build simple, decent, and affordable homes in partnership with low-income families and volunteers | Join |
| Four Corners School of Outdoor Education | We provide eduction about the outdoors and the need to preserve natural and cultural treasures in the Southwest and around the world. | Join |
| Front Range Earth Force | We work with teachers to empower student leaders to solve real issues in their schools, communities, and the environment. | Join |
| Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of Colorado | we offer youth support, crisis intervention, health programs, community events, legal and social justice advocacy for GLBT people. | Join |
| Global Response | We collaborate with communities worldwide to stop environmental destruction through effective citizen letter campaigns. | Join |
| Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary | Greenwood rehabilitates injured, sick, and orphaned wildlife and releases them into the appropriate habitat. | Join |
| Habitat for Humanity Metro Denver | We are a homeownership program for hard-working families in need of a decent, safe, and affordable home. | Request membership |
| Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver | We build decent and affordable houses in partnership with low-income families and volunteers. | Join |
| Harrison Memorial Animal Hospital | offering discounted veterinary services to disabled and low income pet owners and affordable spay and neuter services to the general public | Join |
| Hospice Care of Boulder and Broomfield Counties | We provide the highest possible quality of life for patients and services for family, friends, and the community regarding end-of-life situations. | Join |
| Human Fund | George Castanza's charity from the Seinfeld episode. | Join |
| Humane Society of Boulder Valley | We are a community-supported open-door facility providing shelter, medical care, and behavioral rehabilitation to more that 8,000 animals annually. | Join |
| Indigo Nature Center | We are a wildlife conservation and education facility providing permanent sanctuary to captive-born wildlife and exotic animals in need. | Join |
| Invest in Kids | We partner with communities to improve the health and well-being of Colorado's children through advancing programs with proven effectiveness. | Join |
| Jefferson County Library Foundation | We provide financial and program support for children's literacy programs and services not available to the community through the Library. | Join |
| Judi's House | We provide peer support groups for grieving children/teenagers and educate the community about children's grief. | Join |
| Junior Achievement Rocky Mountains | The Denver and Nothern Colorado Branch of Junior Achievement | Join |
| KBDI, Channel 12 PBS | A multi-media company serving the Colorado Front Range and beyond; providing a unique civic resource through eight weekly public affairs programs. | Join |
| KGNU 88.5FM & 1390AM Independent Community Radio | We are an independent, volunteer powered, non-commercial radio station.KGNU broadcasts diverse, alternative news and information and eclectic music | Join |
| KUVO 89.3, Denver Educational Broadcasting | We are a Hispanic-controlled radio station combining mainstream and Latin jazz, blues, and specialty music interspersed with news and information. | Join |
| KVNF, Mountain Grown Public Radio | KVNF is grassroots, creative, volunteer based, community oriented public radio serving Western Colorado since 1979. | Join |
| Little Voice Productions | Little Voice uses video, technology, and grassroots outreach to raise awareness of social issues and inspire positive social change. | Join |
| Longmont Humane Society | We promote the bond between people and animals, through pet adoptions, humane education, and sheltering lost and homeless animals. | Join |
| Minority Enterprise & Educational Development, Inc. | MEED provides scholarships for minority and disadvantaged students in Denver Public middle schools and provide opportunities for their parents. | Join |
| NARAL Pro-choice Colorado Foundation | We support a woman's right to make reproductive choices through the conduct of education, training, and public policy initiatives. | Join |
| Native American Multicultural Education School Inc. (NAMES) | A school serving Native American and other struggling disadvantaged minority populations providing adult education and GED preparation | Join |
| Native American Rights Fund (NARF) | NARF provides legal representation to Native American tribes, organizations, and individuals to protect sovereign and human rights guaranteed them. | Join |
| New Foundations Nonviolence Center | We provide the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) in Colorado neighborhoods and institutions to help curb societal violence. | Join |
| Partners of Delta, Montrose Youth Services, Inc. | We develop positive changes in troubled youth by creating and supporting mentoring relationships with adult volunteers. | Join |
| PFLAG Denver | We promote opportunities for dialogue regarding sexual orientation and gender identity through support, education, and advocacy | Join |
| Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers | We promotes community safety by increasing public awareness of crime and providing monetary incentives and anonymity for reporting criminal activity. | Join |
| Pikes Peak Gay & Lesbian Community Center | Providing advocacy, resources and support in the Pikes Peak region and throughout Southern Colorado. Proudly serving the interests of lesbian, gay, bi | Join |