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Boulder Community Health Foundation

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$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
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 2024.

Health$23MHuman Services$80kFood & Nutrition$75kHousing & Shelter$65kCrime & Legal$55k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $3,338,005, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,494,806 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,801 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$3,338,005
Median grant
1
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH$3,338,005
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 (FY18–20, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIDGE HOUSE: $25k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $40k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $30k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 5 repeat orgs$657k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$23M
$657k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+74%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BC
    BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23M · revenue +20%
  • BC
    BOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT
    3× · 2018–2021 · $111k · revenue +45%
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM
    2× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • JP
    Justin Parker Neurological Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $547k · revenue +74%
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL HEART
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +5%
  • BH
    Bridge Housegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +77%
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
Boulder Housing Partners Foundation

The Foundation is organized to help BHP residents pursue successful, productive, and dignified lives by mobilizing resources for supportive, life-enriching, and community building services. Significant activities include stewarding the…

Human Services
2
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.

—
3
Boulder Community Health Foundation

The bch foundation inspires giving in support of bch to enhance the quality and availability of health care in our community.

Health
4
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc

Our mission is to provide high quality and equitable reproductive and sexual health services, abortion, and education to all people, regardless of any barriers to healthcare that they may face.

—
5
Boulder Community Housing Corporation Inc

The mission statement of Boulder Community Housing Organization is to provide quality, affordable homes and foster thriving communities. They aim to create a diverse, inclusive, and sustainable Boulder by offering affordable housing…

Housing & Shelter
6
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
7
Boulder Carshare

To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.

Environment
8
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
9
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
10
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
11
Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

—
12
BethHaven Incorporated

BethHaven is designed to provide a supervised family-type residence for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. For more than 30 years BethHaven has provided top quality residential services for adults with severe and persistent…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boulder County Aids Project; the most unlike its peers is Justin Parker Neurological Institute. 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

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 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH: $22,546,803 · HealthBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH+2 more: $657,937 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE: $70,000 · Human ServicesBridge House: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $55,000 · Crime & LegalBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBOULDER COUNTY: $10,000 · Other
Health$23,204,740Human Services$95,000Community Improvement$75,000Crime & Legal$55,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Other$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH: $22,546,803 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT: $111,325 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBridge House: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Boulder Community Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boulder Community Health 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
    4report 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.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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