· Private foundation
Acclivity Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Springs Rescue Mission | $25,000 |
| Pikes Peak Community Foundation | $25,000 |
| Foundation for Colorado Springs Future | $10,000 |
| North Dakota Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| UND Alumni Association Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| TESSA | $4,000 |
| Homeward Pikes Peak | $4,000 |
| The Place | $4,000 |
| Empty Stocking Fund | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue -8%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +26%
- MCMt Carmel Veterans Center2× · 2023–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- UOUniversity of North Dakotaone grant, 2024 · $10k
- AFAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -22%
- GGoodwillone grant, 2023 · $7k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To build effective partnerships that support the cs police dept and local community
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To receive manage, sell, steward, and develop real estate and related assets for the benefit of our community.
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
The mission of pikes peak suicide prevention partnership is to unite the community in addressing suicide in the pikes peak region through education, intervention, and positive motivation.
To act as an independent and unique funding and advocacy resource for the denver police department to enhance public safety and law enforcement in the denver community.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Acclivity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acclivity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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