Colorado does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. Colorado's own Articles of Organization already keep member and manager names off the public record — the organizer/filer is the only public name, so route that role through a formation service rather than yourself. A Wyoming parent above a Colorado LLC is mainly about layering Wyoming's stronger charging-order protection on top. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$50
Articles of Organization filing fee
Organizer only
No member/manager name on the Articles of Organization
$25/yr
Periodic Report due in anniversary month
§ 7-80-703
Charging order available, foreclosure permitted
Colorado is more privacy-friendly on its own filing than it sometimes gets credit for. Its Articles of Organization ($50), filed under C.R.S. § 7-80-204, ask for the LLC's name, address, registered agent, and a member-managed/manager-managed designation — but not an actual member or manager name. The one name that becomes public is the organizer, whoever delivers the filing, which is why a formation service typically fills that role rather than the owner. Because Colorado's own record doesn't force an owner's name into the public database, a Wyoming holding LLC above a Colorado LLC is less about hiding ownership and more about strengthening it: Colorado's charging-order statute (C.R.S. § 7-80-703) is comparatively weak, so a Wyoming parent adds real asset-protection value even where it isn't fixing a privacy gap Colorado already has.
Colorado's Articles of Organization, filed under C.R.S. § 7-80-204, require the LLC's name, principal address, registered agent, and a statement of whether it is member-managed or manager-managed — but not the actual name of any member or manager. The one name that becomes public is the organizer: whoever causes the Articles to be delivered for filing. That information is searchable at mybiz.colorado.gov. Colorado does not hide ownership as completely as Wyoming (which discloses nothing), but it is meaningfully closer to that end of the spectrum than to disclosure states like Illinois or Texas that print a governing person's name.
Because Colorado's Articles of Organization don't ask for a member or manager name — only whether the LLC is member- or manager-managed — there's no member/manager field for a Wyoming holding LLC to occupy the way there is in a true disclosure state. What Colorado's filing does publish is the organizer, so naming a formation service rather than yourself as the person delivering the filing keeps that one field from resolving to you. Where a Wyoming parent earns its keep above a Colorado LLC is asset protection, not privacy: Colorado's charging-order statute (C.R.S. § 7-80-703) does not declare the charging order an exclusive remedy and permits foreclosure, so a Wyoming holding LLC above the ownership interest adds real creditor protection even though Colorado's own filing was never the privacy gap.
Colorado not requiring a member or manager name doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the Colorado LLC — and of any Wyoming holding LLC above it — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not open to public search.
C.R.S. § 7-80-703 — charging order available, but not an exclusive remedy and foreclosure is permitted. Colorado's statute does not contain Wyoming's 'sole and exclusive remedy, no foreclosure' language, and it expressly contemplates a court-ordered sale of the charged interest — courts have been willing to look past the charging order in some single-member and bankruptcy cases, so the protection is real but meaningfully thinner than Wyoming's.
Colorado charges no franchise tax on LLCs. The only recurring state filing is a $25 Periodic Report due during the LLC's anniversary month. Pass-through income is taxed to members at Colorado's flat 4.4% personal income rate.
Note: Confirm the $50 formation fee and $25 Periodic Report fee directly at mybiz.colorado.gov. This page corrects an earlier internal discrepancy over whether Colorado requires a member/manager name (see dataDiscrepancyNote) — verify against Colorado's live Articles of Organization form before relying on the no-disclosure conclusion in a high-stakes situation.
Note: An earlier draft of this page followed apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/co.ts, which read C.R.S. § 7-80-204 as requiring a named member or manager on the Articles of Organization. On review, Colorado's actual Articles of Organization require only the organizer (filer) and a member-managed/manager-managed designation — not an actual member or manager name — which matches apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/co.ts's membersPubliclyListed: false. This page now treats Colorado as not requiring member/manager disclosure; apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/co.ts should be reviewed separately, since it appears to be the file that has this backwards.
No. Colorado's Articles of Organization, under C.R.S. § 7-80-204, require the LLC's name, address, registered agent, and whether it is member- or manager-managed — but not an actual member or manager name. The one name that becomes public is the organizer who delivers the filing, searchable at mybiz.colorado.gov.
Colorado's own filing already keeps member and manager names off the public record. Use a formation service — not yourself — as the organizer so the one public field on the Articles doesn't point back to you, and consider a Wyoming holding LLC as the member on your (non-public) operating agreement for stronger charging-order protection.
No. C.R.S. § 7-80-703 doesn't declare the charging order an exclusive remedy and expressly allows a court-ordered sale of the interest — some courts have gone further and looked past the charging order for single-member LLCs. This is a separate reason, beyond privacy, that a Wyoming parent is often used above Colorado subsidiaries.
Bottom line: Colorado's Articles of Organization don't require a member or manager name — only the organizer does that — so a Wyoming parent here is mainly an asset-protection upgrade for a state that already keeps ownership off the public filing.