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Cancer League of Colorado Inc

A joint commitment to raise money for research and patient care with the mission of finding a cure for, or the means to control, cancer.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Itemized grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$959,995
Organizations funded a year
17 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$579k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Cancer League of Colorado Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$1.3M9%
FY202417$819k6%
FY202322$1.1M9%
FY202221$1.2M24%
FY202118$819k6%
FY202020$867k0%
FY201919$1.3M16%
FY201820$888k30%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$9.3M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents of the University of Colorado$7,663,9129n/a
Colorado State University$149,9993n/a
Healing Buddies Inc$95,00099%
Wapiyapi$90,00095%
Shining Stars Foundation$77,50082%
Southeast Colorado Hospital District$75,0009n/a
Mount Evans Hospice Inc Dba Mount Evans Home Health Care and Hos$72,50080%
Marlene F Landy Cancer Foundation$69,500810%
Epic Experience$67,50082%
Hope Held by a Horse$65,600734%
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All grantees of Cancer League of Colorado Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents of the University of Colorado$7,663,9129n/a
Colorado State University$149,9993n/a
Healing Buddies Inc$95,00099%
Wapiyapi$90,00095%
Shining Stars Foundation$77,50082%
Southeast Colorado Hospital District$75,0009n/a
Mount Evans Hospice Inc Dba Mount Evans Home Health Care and Hos$72,50080%
Marlene F Landy Cancer Foundation$69,500810%
Epic Experience$67,50082%
Hope Held by a Horse$65,600734%
Nighthawk Ranch Inc$63,000721%
Project Angel Heart$62,00080%
Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation$61,00062%
National Jewish Health$60,00010%
Sense of Security Inc$47,50067%
Colorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance$47,00061%
Blueprints of Hope aka Cancer Support Community Southwest Color$44,500611%
Live by Living Foundation$40,50056%
Living Journeys$40,00042%
La Clinica Tepeyac$40,00050%
Colorado Melanoma Foundation Inc$38,00042%
Bravehoods$37,00069%
Suddenly Pink Foundation$36,000412%
The Gabby Krause Foundation$32,50041%
Brent Eley Foundation$30,00030%
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers Foundation$27,000311%
Reel Recovery Inc$23,50032%
HopeWest$23,50030%
Casting for Recovery$23,50031%
Dragonboat Racing Association of Colorado Inc$21,0003n/a
Prospect Home Care-Hospice Inc$20,0002n/a
Mylifeline Inc$16,0002n/a
The Childrens Treehouse Foundation$11,50017%
Sue DiNapoli Ovarian Cancer Society$7,50014%
Sky High Hope Camp$7,5001n/a
Verma Foundation$7,00016%
Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation$6,00010%
My Happy Place-Fort Collins$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Cancer League of Colorado Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHealing Buddies Inc: $95,000 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetWapiyapi: $90,000 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetShining Stars Foundation: $77,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMount Evans Hospice Inc Dba Mount Evans Home Health Care and Hos: $72,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMarlene F Landy Cancer Foundation: $69,500 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetEpic Experience: $67,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetHope Held by a Horse: $65,600 over 7y, 34% of budgetNighthawk Ranch Inc: $63,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetProject Angel Heart: $62,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRay of Hope Cancer Foundation: $61,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSense of Security Inc: $47,500 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance: $47,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBlueprints of Hope aka Cancer Support Community Southwest Color: $44,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetLive by Living Foundation: $40,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetLiving Journeys: $40,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLa Clinica Tepeyac: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Melanoma Foundation Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBravehoods: $37,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetSuddenly Pink Foundation: $36,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetThe Gabby Krause Foundation: $32,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBrent Eley Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Cancer Centers Foundation: $27,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetReel Recovery Inc: $23,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHopeWest: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCasting for Recovery: $23,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Childrens Treehouse Foundation: $11,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSue DiNapoli Ovarian Cancer Society: $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVerma Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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 FoundationCO39.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Kroenke Sports Charities Inc · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Libertygives Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy 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.

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About Cancer League of Colorado Inc

How much does Cancer League of Colorado Inc give?
Cancer League of Colorado Inc reported 25 itemized grants totaling $1,293,494, out of $1,418,744 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cancer League of Colorado Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Cancer League of Colorado Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Colorado ($7.7M), Colorado State University ($150k), Healing Buddies Inc ($95k).
Does Cancer League of Colorado Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cancer League of Colorado Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
Where is Cancer League of Colorado Inc based?
Cancer League of Colorado Inc is based in CO.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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