· Private foundation
Bee Vradenburg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chamber Orchestra of the Springs | $6,500 |
| UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art | $6,500 |
| Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Association | $5,000 |
| Millibo Art Theatre | $5,000 |
| RedLine Contemporary Art Center | $5,000 |
| Pikes Peak State College Foundation | $4,500 |
| Concrete Couch | $4,000 |
| Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center | $4,000 |
| Educational Partnerships Immersive Concerts (EPIC) | $3,000 |
| Art Song Colorado | $3,000 |
| Colorado College Summer Music Festival | $2,500 |
| Palmer Lake Arts Council | $2,500 |
| Rocky Mountain Women's Film | $2,500 |
| Brink Literacy Project | $2,500 |
| Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Association | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 8 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +1%
- TCThe Chamber Orchestra of the Springs7× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +65%
- ODORMAO DANCE COMPANY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $27k
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +109%- DVDowntown Ventures (Artspace)one grant, 2023 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to combine dance and modern technology to provide high-quality training and productions while increasing the communitys knowledge of the arts
The Cultural Caravan brings together locally-owned businesses, social-serviced nonprofits, municipal organizations, and local artists to make Boulder more vibrant, inclusive, culturally active, and economically vital by presenting…
Our mission is to collaborate with local artists and businesses to promote contemporary art in public spaces in Fort Collins, Colorado. FCMP is focused on providing opportunities for underrepresented and emerging artists in Colorado.
To inspire, enrich, and connect our community through the transformative power of live orchestral music.
Colorado events mission is to organize community events that increase public knowledge and appreciation for visual arts, fine crafts, and supporting local merchants, by creating opportunities that connect artists and local businesses, with…
The Longmont Concert Band is a nonprofit organization composed of volunteer musicians from the surrounding community. Our goals are to provide quality concert band music to the general public, to provide a fun and invigorating atmosphere…
Charitable organization presenting musical events and educational programs. In 2023-24, Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra presented two world premieres and featured numerous works by women composers and composers of color.
Artibus is dedicated to strengthening community through the experience of live performance. We are a hub in Denver for intimate, original performances that explore important social themes and for building community through shared space,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Folklorico De Barajas. 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 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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. 57 of the 126 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs ↗
- Who funds ORMAO DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE COUCH ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Youth Documentary Academy ↗
- Who funds MANITOU ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of the Rockies ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Poetry Heals ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET FOLKLORICO DE BARAJAS ↗
- Who funds CONVERGE LECTURE SERIES ↗
- Who funds INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ↗
- Who funds One Body Ent ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA ↗
- Who funds DANCE ALLIANCE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds MANITOU ART THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Sprinkle Art Inc ↗
- Who funds Unity Project Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · H Chase Stone Trust B Xxxxx5009 · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Calm Foundation · The Buettner Family Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Colorado Gives 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 Bee Vradenburg Foundation 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.
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.
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