· Public charity
Caring for Colorado Foundation
The foundation works to improve the lives of young people and their families in colorado through collaboration, partnership, shared knowledge and grant-making.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 126 grants below total $12,847,789 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,577,624 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $729,835 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k63 grants · $7.1M
- $250k+14 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND | $650,000 |
| FAMILIES PLUS | $300,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUALITY | $300,000 |
| LA PUENTE HOME | $300,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLO | $300,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PUEBLO COUN | $300,000 |
| RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $300,000 |
| FULL CIRCLE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | $300,000 |
| STREET FRATERNITY | $300,000 |
| ROSE ANDOM CENTER | $300,000 |
| FOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER | $300,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL | $300,000 |
| KIDS AT THEIR BEST | $300,000 |
| STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK | $255,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER | $240,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $16.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
209 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2025, 128 since wound down; 38 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER3× · 2019–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +26%
- CHCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +125%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +79%
Funded once
- FRFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $850k · revenue -58%
- A1ADAMS 12 FIVE STAR SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $552k
- TSThe School District 60 Education Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $541k · revenue +56%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Health Institute. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
354 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. 354 of the 413 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS ↗
- Who funds Center for African American Health ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARENT POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds ALL AMERICAN FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds Street Fraternity Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds El Centro AMISTAD ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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 Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc
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 Caring for Colorado 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.