· Public charity
Brighton Legacy Foundation
The organization works on projects that provide educational, social, or cultural services to the citizens of brighton, colorado and makes funds available to other tax exempt organizations that do the same.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $173,820 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $212,070 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALMOST HOME INC | $25,000 |
| BRIGHTON EMPLOYEE CHARITIES | $15,820 |
| PENNOCK CENTER FOR COUNSELING | $15,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKES | $12,000 |
| FOOD FOR HOPE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC | $10,000 |
| RALSTON HOUSE | $10,000 |
| A PRECCIOUS CHILD | $10,000 |
| RICHARD LAMBERT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPARKLING KINDNESS | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| BENIEFITS IN ACTION | $6,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 32% 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.
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
Homelessness prevention
Food insecurity and housing needs
To compassionately address the issues of hunger and food insecurity within our community by providing free, healthy groceries to those in need.
The mission of pinnacle resource center is to provide emergency shelter, food, clothing, and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness and poverty, with the goal of promoting stability and self-sufficiency.
A community in which people have access to food and resources to foster self-sufficiency
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Build community by providing nutritious and delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins regardless of their ability to pay while using mostly local, organic, and sustainably grown ingredients
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
To cultivate a just food system and opportunities for joyful movement.
Nourishing neighbors, inspiring hope, and supporting families on their road to self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Precious Child Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sparkling Kindness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 Almost Home Inc ↗
- Who funds PENNOCK CENTER FOR COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD LAMBERT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ralston House ↗
- Who funds Sparkling Kindness ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS IN ACTION ↗
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: Brighton Community Hospital Association · Anschutz Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Brighton Legacy 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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