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Bee Vradenburg Foundation at a glance

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Bee Vradenburg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$44kPhilanthropy$40kEnvironment$23kCommunity Improvement$18kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$13kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art$6,500
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs$6,500
Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Association$5,000
RedLine Contemporary Art Center$5,000
Millibo Art Theatre$5,000
Pikes Peak State College Foundation$4,500
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center$4,000
Concrete Couch$4,000
Educational Partnerships Immersive Concerts (EPIC)$3,000
Art Song Colorado$3,000
Palmer Lake Arts Council$2,500
Colorado College Summer Music Festival$2,500
Brink Literacy Project$2,500
Rocky Mountain Women's Film$2,500
Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Association$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Pikes Peak Pride: $1k → 9%Pikes Peak Pride: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$985k · 51 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
66

Total granted

$985k
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+11%

Still filing today

61%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
    7× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +65%
  • OD
    ORMAO DANCE COMPANY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • DV
    Downtown Ventures (Artspace)
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +109%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
2
High Performance Dance Theatre

Our mission is to combine dance and modern technology to provide high-quality training and productions while increasing the communitys knowledge of the arts

Arts & Culture
3
The Cultural Caravan

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre
Arts & Culture
5
Fort Collins Mural Project

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra

To inspire, enrich, and connect our community through the transformative power of live orchestral music.

Arts & Culture
7
Mountain Performing Arts Inc
Arts & Culture
8
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Colorado Events

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…

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10
Longmont Concert Band

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra

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.

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12
Theatre Artibus

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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
30/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Colorado Springs Philharmonic: $302,111 · OtherColorado Springs PhilharmonicCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION (COPPER): $67,000 · OtherCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION (COPPER)The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs: $40,500 · Other+81 more: $422,663 · Other+81 moreCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $47,134 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES …ORMAO DANCE COMPANY INC: $28,400 · Arts & CultureORMAO DANCE COMPANY INCCONCRETE COUCH: $24,500 · Arts & CultureCONCRETE COUCHCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE: $23,000 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROA…Opera Theatre of the Rockies: $18,500 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of the RockiesCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $18,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUS…ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY: $16,462 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePoetry Heals: $14,500 · Arts & CultureBALLET FOLKLORICO DE BARAJAS: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $109,000 · Arts & Culture+21 morePIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,500 · PhilanthropyINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak: $10,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS: $2,500 · PhilanthropyYouth Documentary Academy: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentINSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentSalida Circus Outreach Foundation: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $15,000 · EnvironmentPALMER LAKE RESTORATION PROJECT INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 · EducationFLYING PIG FARM: $1,000 · EducationCOLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$832,274Arts & Culture$327,996Philanthropy$40,000Youth Development$25,500Environment$17,500Education$15,500Public Benefit$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $47,134 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetThe Chamber Orchestra of the Springs: $40,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetORMAO DANCE COMPANY INC: $28,400 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONCRETE COUCH: $24,500 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetColorado Springs Fine Arts Center: $23,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE: $23,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYouth Documentary Academy: $22,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMANITOU ART CENTER: $21,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetOpera Theatre of the Rockies: $18,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $18,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY: $16,462 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoetry Heals: $14,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET FOLKLORICO DE BARAJAS: $13,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetCONVERGE LECTURE SERIES: $12,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOne Body Ent: $10,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDANCE ALLIANCE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $9,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetMANITOU ART THEATRE: $8,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSprinkle Art Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUnity Project Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetEducational Partnerships Immersive Concerts: $8,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetColorado Springs Youth Symphony Association: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE MANITOU SPRINGS: $6,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOLD COLORADO CITY PARTNERSHIP: $6,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetColorado Vocal Arts Ensemble: $5,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILDREN'S CHORALE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGS ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $4,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPikes Peak Permaculture Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPIKES PEAK PRIDE: $3,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTEXTILES WEST: $3,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLeadership Pikes Peak: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NEW HORIZONS BAND OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMOKEBRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDENVERWORKS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER LAKE RESTORATION PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetINSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • 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 One Body Ent ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA ↗
  • Who funds INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ↗
  • Who funds DANCE ALLIANCE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds MANITOU ART THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Sprinkle Art Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pikes Peak Community …INDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…The Joseph Henry Edmo…El Pomar FoundationH Chase Stone Trust B…Colorado Springs Heal…Dusty and Katherine L…The Colorado Health F…Calm FoundationThe Buettner Family F…Ent Credit UnionColorado Gives Founda…
Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO53.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bee Vradenburg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bee Vradenburg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    14report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bee Vradenburg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bee Vradenburg Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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