What are Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs)?
Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) are non-profit 501(c)(3) entities that receive donations to provide educational scholarships to eligible K-12 students. While they have traditionally operated through state-level programs, the recent “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) introduced a new federal tax credit for contributors, significantly expanding their impact.
Colorado
Current Colorado SGOs (Currently NOT a part of the Federal program, SGOs will be appointed by the Governor by Jan. 2027)
- ACE Scholarships: Operate nationally, providing need-based scholarships to lower-income families in states such as Colorado, Kansas, and Louisiana. ACE Scholarships have provided scholarships to private schools accredited by the Association of Classical Christian Schools, listed on the Turning Point Education Association website. The Association of Classical Christian Schools was founded by Doug Wilson in 1993.
- Parents Challenge: Primarily serving the Pikes Peak region, this organization recently expanded to include Teller and Pueblo Counties.
- Seeds of Hope: Provides tuition assistance to low-income families specifically for students attending Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Denver.
Colorado Articles
- Billionaires Pave the Way for Trump’s Federal Vouchers in the School Privatization Movement | CTR
- Colorado governor plans to opt into Trump-endorsed initiative that some fear will lead to voucher program | Colorado Sun
- Coalition aims to bring private school vouchers to Mass.
- At the meeting Wednesday, which served as a sort of Coalition launch, former Education Commissioner Riley joined Democrats for Education Reform founder Kevin Chavous and Nicholas Hernandez, founder of the Colorado-based group Transform Education Now, for a panel discussion on the local effort to bring the tax credit to Massachusetts.
- Colorado lawmakers won’t pursue bill to place state limits on Trump-backed education tax credit program
- Concerns Over Colorado’s Federal Education Freedom Tax Credit Program
- Democratic governors facing push from Jewish groups to embrace education tax credits
- In The Know: School Vouchers | Bell Policy Center
- Opinion: Take note, Gov. Polis: Coloradans have repeatedly said no to school vouchers
- Polis all in on Trump’s tax-credit scholarship while other Dem governors wait and see
Resources
- Advocacy Toolkit | Public Funds Public Schools
- Federal Voucher Program | Public Funds Public Schools
- More Tools from ELC to Convince Governors to Just Say No to Federal Vouchers! | ELC
- The New Federal Voucher Program Fact Sheet | In the Public Interest
Additional Articles
- A New Federal Voucher Program Poised to Ramp Up School Segregation
- Why a new federal school choice program may require a massive marketing budget
- Federal Voucher Scheme Uses Misleading Information to Lure States into Defunding Public Schools
- Trump Law Would Also Direct Voucher Money to Public Schools
- Education Privatization Propaganda Worsening
- Kelly, Hirono Lead Bill to Repeal Federal Private School Voucher Program, Keep Public Dollars in Public Schools
- Other Democratic governors are wary of new Trump school funding program. Not Polis.
- Gov. Andy Beshear: Here’s why I proudly vetoed the backdoor school voucher bill
- Inside Trump’s Stealth School Voucher Program: What’s At Stake
- A Backdoor School Voucher Scheme That Sidesteps Civil Rights and Undermines Public Oversight
- American Federation for Children Ready To Cash In On Federal Vouchers | Curmudgucation
- Private Equity Is Set to Profit From New School Vouchers
- Trump’s national school voucher program could mean a boom in Christian education | Hechinger Report
- A Conservative Argument Against Federal School Vouchers | The Education Report
- A Revenue Impact Analysis of the Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 | Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy
- Coalition aims to bring private school vouchers to Mass.
- IRS, Treasury Start Process of Implementing New Federal School Choice Program
- Inside the Push to Privatize Education in a New Gilded Age | Inside Philanthropy
- Shelter Skelter: How the Educational Choice for Children Act Would Use Tax Avoidance to Fuel School Privatization | Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy
- States Should Reject Federal School Voucher Scheme | The Progressive
- 3 waves of school vouchers: A history of expansion and exclusion | Brookings
- The ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill Creates a $5 Billion Tax Shelter for Private School Donors | Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy
- The OBBBA’s tax-credit scholarship program is a mess that might be worth opting into anyway | Brookings
- This isn’t school ‘choice.’ It’s public money siphoned off for private education. | Colorado Newsline
- Three Ways that the Reconciliation Bill’s School Voucher Program Hurts Public Schools
- Voucher Boondoggle: House Advances Plan to Give the Wealthy $1.20 for Every $1 They Steer to Private K-12 Schools | Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy
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