Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado
Solicits, receives, and distributes funds in cooperation with the Colorado Legal Services program, which provides civil legal aid to low-income persons.
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado at a glance
In short: Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado gave $2.0M across 2 grants in 2025 (avg $1.0M), mostly in Colorado. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $2,012,000
- +0.6% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 2
- +100.0% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $1,006,000
- -49.7% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $1,006,000
- Total assets
- $3,759,404
- -14.0% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Colorado (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
Who Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 2 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Colorado Legal Services ($2.0M). Together the top 2 received $2.0M.
Grant Size Distribution
7 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was in the $1–5M range: 5 grants of 7 (71%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 2 itemized grants.
States
Cities
How Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado gives
- Giving held roughly steady from 2022 to 2025 (+15%). Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $1.7M (2021) to $2.0M (2025). In 2025 it made 2 grants totaling $2.0M.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado Legal Services Denver, CO | Program support | $2,006,000 |
| Colorado Lawyers Committee Denver, CO | Program support | $6,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $3,759,404 | $2,577,828 | $2,414,683 | $2,012,000 | 2 | $118,007 |
| 2024 | $4,373,562 | $2,303,135 | $2,303,153 | $2,000,000 | 1 | $117,289 |
| 2023 | $3,090,660 | $3,326,642 | $2,204,201 | $1,915,810 | 1 | $85,210 |
| 2022 | $1,833,865 | $2,357,593 | $2,008,041 | $1,750,000 | 1 | $23,567 |
| 2021 | $1,608,146 | $2,361,977 | $1,981,726 | $1,734,700 | 2 | $31,773 |
| 2020 | $1,227,996 | $1,846,370 | $1,996,894 | $1,750,000 | 1 | $27,132 |
| 2019 | $1,299,335 | $2,199,101 | $2,146,280 | $1,905,000 | 1 | $28,564 |
About Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado
Based on IRS filings
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado is a public charity focused on Crime & Legal Related, based in Denver, CO. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $3.8M in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 2 grants totaling $2.0M. Net investment income was $118K.
Focus Areas
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado is led by Jordan Bates-Rogers, Executive Director on every filing since 2024; 1 of 42 officers listed in 2025 is compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Jordan Bates-Rogers
Executive Director
On filings since 2024
20 hrs/week
$121K (2025)
Chalyse Robinson
Chairperson
Director → Vice Chairperson, 2024
Vice Chairperson → Chairperson, 2025
On filings since 2021
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jennifer L Parker
Director
Executive Officio → Director, 2022
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Giovanni M Ruscitti
Director
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Joseph L Lambert
Director
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Paul W Hurcomb
Director
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Kenneth F Rossman IV
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jerremy M Ramp
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Reagan Larkin
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Sheela Stack
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Yuefan Wang
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Josh W Mack
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Kathryn L Raffensperger
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Matthew R Baca
Director
Executive Officio → Director, 2024
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Patricia Y Ho
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Qusair Mohamedbhai
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Stephan J Marsh
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Timothy M Reynolds
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Allison K Kostecka
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Douglas BR Baer
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Heather R Hanneman
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
John Wharton
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Kirsten Stewart
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Monique B DuPont
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
R Reeves Anderson
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Suzanne J Marsh
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Tina Van Bockern
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Catherine Chan
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Charles Willman
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
James R Henderson
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jennifer Knies
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Lisa M Saccomano
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Lucy Walker
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Nelson Boyle
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Patrick Brayton
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Shaye Maetzold Anderson
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Heather C Perkins
Past-Chairperson
Vice Chair → Chairperson, 2022
Chairperson → Past-Chairperson, 2024
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jacqueline V Roeder
Secretary
Director → Secretary, 2024
On filings since 2020
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jerome H Sturhahn
Past-Chairperson
Vice Chair → Chairperson, 2024
Chairperson → Past-Chairperson, 2025
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Dimitri Adloff
Treasurer
Director → Treasurer, 2025
On filings since 2022
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Franz Hardy
Vice Chairperson
Director → Vice Chairperson, 2025
On filings since 2022
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Diane Hazel
Secretary
New on the 2025 filing
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (53)
- Former: Diana M. Poole (2019–2024) — Executive Director
- Former: Jeffrey S Hurd (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Stanley L Garnett (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Timothy R Macdonald (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Jonathan B Boonin (2020–2024) — Director
- Former: Nathanael A Koch (2022–2024) — Treasurer
- Former: A Nathaniel Baca (2024) — Director
- Former: Mary E Hershewe (2024) — Director
- Former: David H. Miller (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Elizabeth Sharrer (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Eric R. Olson (2019–2023) — Past Chair
- Former: Erik F. Walser (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: John D. W. Partridge (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Lawrence R. Katzin (2019–2023) — Secretary
- Former: Melissa J. Sullivan (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Nancy Lipson (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Roger E. Clark (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Troy A. Eid (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Andrew Lw Peters (2021–2023) — Executive Officio
- Former: Thomas J. Overton (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Ty Gee (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Amanda M. Peek (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: J. Ryann Peyton (2023) — Executive Officio
- Former: Brent E. Rychener (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Christopher Montville (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Jonathan D. Asher (2019–2022) — Executive Officio
- Former: Lindsey K. S. Nicholson (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Matthew R. Ellsworth (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Sarah A. Klahn (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Holly K. Leeser (2022) — Ex-Officio
- Former: Joi G. Kush (2022) — Executive Officio
- Former: Cheryl C. Walton (2019–2021) — Treasurer
- Former: Julie E. Gifford (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Linda J. Chalat (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Matthew A. Pring (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Natalie Hanlon-Leh (2019–2021) — Past Chair
- Former: Steve N. Levine (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Warren D. Thomas (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Jessica Brown (2021) — Executive Officio
- Former: Anthony L. Giacomini (2019–2020) — Secretary
- Former: Daniel N. Recht (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Diane S. King (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Josh I. Berry (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Sarah B. Wallace (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Elizabeth A. Och (2020) — Ex-Officio
- Former: Kathleen Hearn Croshal (2020) — Ex-Officio
- Former: Christopher W. Ford (2019) — Past Chair
- Former: Heidi C. Potter (2019) — Director
- Former: John M. Vaught (2019) — Executive Officio
- Former: Jonathan W. Rauchway (2019) — Director
- Former: Michael E. Miner (2019) — Director
- Former: Rebecca Anderson Fischer (2019) — Director
- Former: Tamara F. Goodlette (2019) — Director
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $121K, to Jordan Bates-Rogers (Executive Director).
Frequently asked questions about Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado
How much does Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado give each year?
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado gave $2.0M across 2 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $2.0M across 1 grant.
How large is Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado?
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado reported $3.8M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $2.6M.
What is Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado?
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado is a public charity focused on Crime & Legal Related, based in Denver, CO. It holds $3.8M in total assets as of 2025.
Where does Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado operate?
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado has awarded grants in Colorado.
What is Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado's EIN?
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 74-2182277. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS April 10, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS May 12, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 9, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS May 9, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS December 26, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS November 19, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS November 7, 2025)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2025
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