· Private foundation
Calm Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARLY CONNECTIONS | $15,000 |
| YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| FRESH FOOD CONNECT | $6,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $6,000 |
| YOUTH DOCUMENTARY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MTN WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL | $3,537 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ROUNDUP FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +68% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- EIExponential Impact3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +163%
- YMYU MING CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +68%
- PEPeak Education3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- RCREDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TCTHRIVE COone grant, 2022 · $10k
- RIRECIDIVIZ INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue 0%
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.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission educates, advocates, and cultivates peace, justice, nonviolence, and sustainability in the Pikes Peak Region, engaging our world.
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Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.
We foster resiliency in underinvested business communities across colorado by innovatively addressing capital gaps. at energize colorado, we envision a future where we are the go-to destination for business owners seeking comprehensive…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Working to ensure that Downtown Colorado Springs serves as the economic, civic, and cultural heart of Colorado Springs.
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.
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Recidiviz Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 46 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 Youth Documentary Academy ↗
- Who funds Exponential Impact ↗
- Who funds YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Peak Education ↗
- Who funds INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE COUCH ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds RECIDIVIZ INC ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fresh Food Connect ↗
- Who funds Trails and Open Space Coalition ↗
- Who funds FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY ↗
- Who funds Center for Nonprofit Excellence ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR RECYCLERS ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING THE GOSPEL IN ANGOLA INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE ↗
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: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Ent Credit Union · The John E and Margaret L Lane Foundation · Esther M & Freeman E Everett Charitable · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives 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 Calm 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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