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Bellco 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.

$746k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$712kFood & Nutrition$529kPhilanthropy$518kYouth Development$193kHousing & Shelter$148kEducation$136kEnvironment$77kHuman Services$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $610k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$705k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER ART MUSEUM$210,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ROCKY MTN INC$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER$50,000
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION$50,000
LATINO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$50,000
FILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$50,000
COLORADO GARDEN FOUNDATION$28,500
FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGES$12,600
CARE AND SHARE INC$12,500
COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CARE AND SHARE INC$10,000
WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS$10,000
CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC$10,000
MOUNTAIN PLAINS MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$6,500
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 (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE: $5k → 3%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $3k → 5%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%GOWEST FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $1k → 5%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 22 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$2.3M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+29%

Still filing today

82%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $530k · revenue +52%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $416k · revenue +74%
  • Care and Share Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • GF
    GOWEST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue +7%
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.

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Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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4
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
7
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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8
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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9
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…

Arts & Culture
10
Impact Development Fund

Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…

Housing & Shelter
11
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
12
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

43 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. 43 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $497,500 · OtherNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ROCKY MTN INC: $150,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ROCKY MTN INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $130,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INCCOLORADO GARDEN FOUNDATION: $105,775 · OtherCOLORADO GARDEN FOUNDATIONCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $70,000 · OtherCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC: $45,000 · Other+18 more: $172,300 · Other+18 moreDENVER ART MUSEUM: $530,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMLatino Leadership Institute: $150,000 · Arts & CultureLatino Leadership Institute+6 more: $27,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $415,898 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROC…Care and Share Inc: $32,500 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc+2 more: $17,500 · Food & NutritionGOWEST FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesCASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $25,200 · EducationFood For Thought Denver: $10,000 · EducationGUILD GIVING FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationFILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $25,000 · HealthCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $18,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · Health
Other$1,170,575Arts & Culture$707,000Food & Nutrition$465,898Human Services$88,500Education$72,200Public Benefit$50,000Health$49,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $530,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $497,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $415,898 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLatino Leadership Institute: $150,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $70,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetGOWEST FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $25,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN WEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $18,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFunding the Future: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARTS HUB: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBackpack Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRalston House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Denver FoundationMile High United Way …Rose Community Founda…Anschutz Family Found…The Colorado Health F…Kenneth Kendal King F…Boettcher FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Daniels FundGates Family Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO43.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Daniels Fund · Gates Family 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 Bellco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bellco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bellco Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bellco 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 52 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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