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Adams County Foundation Inc

Provide equitable opportunities for all.

$3.7M
Granted FY2020
30
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Health$1.3MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$813kHousing & Shelter$782kPublic Safety & Disaster$740kCommunity Improvement$267kFood & Nutrition$208kCrime & Legal$148kOther$0
02FY2020 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $279k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $979k
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.4M
$77,850
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOOL DISTRICT 12 EDU FND$600,000
WESTMINSTER PS FOUNDATION$300,000
WESTMINSTER PS FOUNDATION$300,000
KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE$300,000
FRONT RANGE CC FOUNDATION$300,000
KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY$300,000
MAIKER HOUSING PARTNERS$300,000
COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND$185,000
FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$140,000
WESTMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$124,158
GATEWAY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES$111,343
ACCESS HOUSING OF ADAMS COUNTY$100,000
GROWING HOME INC$87,894
WEECYCLE$79,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEDICAL & NURSING CO$77,850
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $635k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $50k → 5%SECOND CHANCE CENTER: $35k → 8%SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $50k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $32k → 5%SECOND CHANCE CENTER: $28k → 8%WEECYCLE: $79k → 8%FAMILY TREE INC: $7k → 7%SHILOH HOME INC: $30k → 7%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $140k → 12%FOSTER SOURCE: $25k → 10%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $10k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MNT PLAINS: $6k → 12%CASA: $47k → 10%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $35k → 10%CASA: $31k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 20 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
17

Total granted

$3.6M
$526k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+51%

Still filing today

90%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WP
    WESTMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $647k · revenue +40% · 91% of their budget
  • KI
    KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $396k · revenue +44% · 29% of their budget
  • KF
    KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $392k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • PV
    PLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $93k · revenue +43%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DENVER
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
  • CL
    COLORADO LEGAL SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
2
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
3
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council

Cbhc's mission is to support community resilience, guide behavioral health innovation, and enhance individual well-being throughout colorado by supporting colorado's community behavioral health safety net providers.

Health
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
6
Denver Early Childhood Council

The vision of denver's early childhood council (the "council") is that denver is a community where the diverse needs of all children and their families are supported. the council elevates the early childhood field through innovative and…

Education
7
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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8
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
9
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
10
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
11
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center Inc

To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comitis Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Diversity Equity and Inclusivity Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr17%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr12%44%35–55yr17%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/56
the rest of the field
13%
964/7,225

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOOL DISTRICT 12 EDU FND — $600,000 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT 12 EDU FNDMAIKER HOUSING PARTNERS — $300,000 · OtherMAIKER HOUSING PARTNERSWESTMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $169,158 · OtherWESTMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLSTHE SENIOR HUB INC — $157,000 · OtherTHE SENIOR HUB INCLA RAZA SERVICES INC — $143,030 · OtherLA RAZA SERVICES INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $117,000 · OtherCOMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC — $95,000 · OtherPLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $93,148 · OtherWESTMINSTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Other+16 more — $465,475 · Other+16 moreKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $396,260 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF DENTI…KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE — $392,022 · HealthKIDS FIRST HEALTH CAR…Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $149,850 · HealthRocky Mountain Youth …COMMUNITY REACH CENTER INC — $123,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY REACH CENTE…MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE — $38,700 · Health+2 more — $38,200 · HealthWESTMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $647,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER PUBLIC SC…FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $325,000 · EducationFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY…+6 more — $141,723 · Education+6 moreFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $140,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS F…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $132,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHI…CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties — $113,345 · Human ServicesCASA of Adams …THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $111,343 · Human ServicesTHREE BIRDS AL…WEECYCLE — $79,000 · Human ServicesWEECYCLESecond Chance Center Inc — $63,035 · Human ServicesSecond Chance …SHILOH HOME INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER SOURCE — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $23,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND — $185,000 · Community ImprovementRalston House — $151,980 · Community ImprovementGROWING HOME INC — $216,321 · ReligionACCESS HOUSING OF ADAMS COUNTY INC — $125,499 · Housing & ShelterARCHWAY HOUSING & SERVICES — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,224,811Health$1,138,032Education$1,113,723Human Services$746,723Community Improvement$336,980Religion$216,321Housing & Shelter$140,499

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESTMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $647,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $396,260 over 3y, 29% of budgetKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE — $392,022 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $216,321 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND — $185,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SENIOR HUB INC — $157,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetRalston House — $151,980 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $149,850 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC — $143,030 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $140,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $132,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS HOUSING OF ADAMS COUNTY INC — $125,499 over 2y, 39% of budgetCOMMUNITY REACH CENTER INC — $123,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $117,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties — $113,345 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $111,343 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC — $95,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $93,148 over 1y, 16% of budgetWESTMINSTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWEECYCLE — $79,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSecond Chance Center Inc — $63,035 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEXTENDED HANDS OF HOPE — $60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DENVER — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO LEGAL SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR HOPE — $40,886 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION — $40,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE — $38,700 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM — $35,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOLFAX COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $32,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetFood For Thought Denver — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHILOH HOME INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOSTER SOURCE — $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetEarly Childhood Partnership of Adams Cou — $21,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCLINICA COLORADO — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $18,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS — $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADAMS COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetARCHWAY HOUSING & SERVICES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBOR OUTREACH OF COLORADO — $15,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetA CHILDS SONG INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBal Swan Childrens Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWestminster 710 Rotary Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetDenver American Indian Festival — $7,500 over 1y, 63% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $5,630 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …The Colorado Health F…Trailhead InstituteAnschutz Family Found…Caring for Colorado F…Schlessman Foundation…The Denver Children's…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO69.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Anschutz Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Denver Children's Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Adams County Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Adams County Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Adams County Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $206k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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