· Private foundation
Boulder Valley Rotary Community 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| NYAGI PROJECT | $7,000 |
| BOULDER VALLEY HEALTH CENTER | $3,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,500 |
| FAMILY LEARNING CENTER | $3,300 |
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE | $3,000 |
| BOULDER FOOD RESCUE | $3,000 |
| CELLISTS FOR CHANGE | $2,400 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HAVEN RIDGE | $2,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN CASA OF BOULDER | $1,500 |
| PLAY BOULDER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FLFAMILY LEARNING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +26%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +20%
- BVBOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CHCOLORADO HAITI PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +189%
- RARise Against Suicideone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Bcap's mission is to provide support, advocacy and education to those in our community who are living with or affected by hiv, and to serve as an outreach and information center to prevent the further transmission of hiv.
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.
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.
To provide our community the highest value healthcare in an innovative, patient-centered environment.
Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado
Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing
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…
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boulder Community Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nyagi Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 60 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Nyagi Project ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Remerg ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Rise Against Suicide ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF DENVER MILE HIGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Focus Reentry ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIDEPADS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds UpRoot Colorado ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE REENTRY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE ↗
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: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · AEC Trust · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Collins Foundation · L & N Andreas Foundation · Anschutz Family 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 Boulder Valley Rotary Community 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.