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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.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
126
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$24MYouth Development$16MHuman Services$14MEducation$12MPhilanthropy$9.3MHousing & Shelter$5.0MCrime & Legal$3.6MCommunity Improvement$2.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 126 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 126 grants below total $12,847,789, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,577,624 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $729,835 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$254M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND$650,000
FAMILIES PLUS$300,000
RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER$300,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL$300,000
LA PUENTE HOME$300,000
FULL CIRCLE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE$300,000
KIDS AT THEIR BEST$300,000
STREET FRATERNITY$300,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUALITY$300,000
ROSE ANDOM CENTER$300,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLO$300,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PUEBLO COUN$300,000
FOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER$300,000
STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK$255,000
FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$240,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RURAL COMMUNITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $195k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 15%EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS: $75k → 7%COMPAEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT R: $225k → 12%Rural Communities Resource Center: $90k → 13%Family Resource Center: $75k → 15%WESTERN SLOPE NATIVE AMERICAN RESOU: $150k → 11%Family Resource Center: $75k → 15%Aurora Community Connection Family Resource Center: $76k → 8%LOVING BEYOND UNDERSTANDING: $150k → 11%AURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION FAMILY: $75k → 8%AURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION FAMILY: $75k → 8%Aurora Community Connection Family Resource Center: $75k → 8%AURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION FAMILY: $75k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $75k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLO: $300k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLO: $90k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLO: $75k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLO: $75k → 15%THE PLACE: $100k → 9%Catholic Charities Diocese of Pueblo: $75k → 15%MARIPOSA CENTER FOR SAFETY: $75k → 15%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $75k → 12%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $75k → 12%Immunize Colorado: $150k → 10%EL CENTRO AMISTAD: $225k → 12%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $83k → 12%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $240k → 10%HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $100k → 12%Family Resource Center Association: $850k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $240k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $75k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $75k → 12%Rocky Mountain Human Services: $75k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $75k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $75k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $120k → 12%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTE: $200k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $300k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $75k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $75k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $75k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $75k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $1.0M → 12%Violence Free Colorado: $250k → 12%Healthy Child Care Colorado: $100k → 12%Denver Indian Health and Family Services: $100k → 12%VIOLENCE FREE COLORADO: $75k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78M · 209 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

209
158

Total granted

$78M
$8.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+15%

Still filing today

92%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2019–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +26%
  • CH
    COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +91%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • FR
    FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $850k · revenue -58%
  • A1
    ADAMS 12 FIVE STAR SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $552k
  • TS
    The School District 60 Education Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $541k · revenue +56%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council

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.

Health
2
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
3
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
4
Aia Colorado

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…

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5
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
6
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
7
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
8
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
9
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
10
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization

Empowering Latino communities through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado

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11
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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12
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

354 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
124
Early backer (in before they grew)
338/354
Grantees still filing
251/354
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $1,087,950 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAI…FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $850,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE CENTE…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC: $750,000 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Center Inc: $611,820 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $564,600 · Human ServicesEl Centro AMISTAD: $560,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $555,000 · Human ServicesAURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $525,540 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $525,000 · Human Services+38 more: $9,432,633 · Human Services+38 moreCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $1,794,000 · HealthCOLORADO HEALTH IN…COLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $865,000 · HealthCOLORADO COMMUNITY…SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $844,780 · HealthSUMMIT COMMUNITY C…MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $667,500 · HealthTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $665,528 · HealthKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE: $607,800 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $590,657 · HealthFOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER: $560,000 · HealthMETRO COMMUNITY PROVIDER NETWORK INC: $527,800 · HealthDENTAL AID: $500,000 · HealthLA COCINA: $479,067 · HealthCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS: $473,000 · HealthRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing: $458,497 · HealthLA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $450,059 · Health+18 more: $3,909,541 · Health+18 moreLA PUENTE HOME INC: $813,168 · OtherDELTA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 50J: $768,852 · OtherCenter for African American Health: $937,500 · Other+64 more: $20,188,370 · Other+64 moreCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $9,708,110 · PhilanthropyCARING FOR COLOR…Rose Community Foundation: $730,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community F…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $570,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $952,500 · Philanthropy+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,063,403 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,252,296 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…PARENT POSSIBLE: $678,663 · EducationPARENT POSSI…RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $540,200 · EducationRIVERSIDE ED…Early Childhood Partnership of Adams Cou: $451,500 · EducationFULL CIRCLE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $390,000 · EducationVALLEY SETTLEMENT: $355,000 · EducationCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $344,114 · Education+8 more: $1,341,455 · Education+8 moreStreet Fraternity Inc: $595,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $549,571 · Crime & LegalThe School District 60 Education Foundation Inc: $541,002 · Crime & LegalFAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC: $531,750 · Crime & LegalROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $475,000 · Crime & LegalLa Plata Youth Services: $375,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA: $337,022 · Crime & LegalELEPHANT CIRCLE: $252,000 · Crime & LegalROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $187,500 · Crime & LegalHEART AND HAND CENTER: $170,000 · Crime & LegalSAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT RESOURCE: $160,000 · Crime & Legal+5 more: $564,000 · Crime & LegalINVEST IN KIDS: $640,000 · Youth DevelopmentALL AMERICAN FAMILIES: $630,136 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC: $616,000 · Youth DevelopmentIlluminate Colorado: $362,930 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Club of South Park: $355,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $351,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES: $340,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT: $295,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER VIKING YOUTH CLUB: $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentPAGOSA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN COLORADO INC: $170,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $120,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$15,462,543Health$13,393,229Other$22,707,890Philanthropy$11,960,610Education$9,416,631Crime & Legal$4,737,845Youth Development$4,475,066

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $9,708,110 over 3y, 58% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,063,403 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $1,794,000 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,252,296 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $1,087,950 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $937,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $865,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $850,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $844,780 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC: $813,168 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC: $750,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $730,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPARENT POSSIBLE: $678,663 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $667,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $665,528 over 4y, 11% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County: $658,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $640,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetALL AMERICAN FAMILIES: $630,136 over 7y, 23% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC: $616,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $614,090 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetSecond Chance Center Inc: $611,820 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE: $607,800 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetBOULDER PRIDE: $605,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetStreet Fraternity Inc: $595,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $590,657 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $588,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $570,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $570,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $564,600 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetFOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER: $560,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetEl Centro AMISTAD: $560,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $556,068 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $555,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $549,571 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetKIDS AT THEIR BEST INC: $546,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetRIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $540,200 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetFAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC: $531,750 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY PROVIDER NETWORK INC: $527,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $525,540 over 7y, 11% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $525,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetRural Communities Resource Center: $511,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetDENTAL AID: $500,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION: $487,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $485,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetLA COCINA: $479,067 over 5y, 13% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $475,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS: $473,000 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $470,120 over 4y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY 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 ↗

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.

The Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Caring for Colorado C…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…The Colorado TrustDelta Dental Plan of …Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Caring for Denver Fou…The Women's Foundatio…
The Colorado Health FoundationCO256.9× affinity253 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Caring for Colorado Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caring for Colorado Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    113report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 413 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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