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Ccs Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ccs Charitable Foundation Inc

$3k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Recreation & Sports$11kArts & Culture$6kPhilanthropy$5kAnimals$1kHuman Services$1kHousing & Shelter$983Food & Nutrition$500Environment$100Other$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$983
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDY GIVE$1,000
HOMEWARD PIKES PEAK$983
FOOD TO POWER$500
MANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INDY GIVE: $1k → 9%INDY GIVE: $1k → 9%INDY GIVE: $1k → 9%INDY GIVE: $1k → 9%COPPER CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES: $1k → 9%INDY GIVE: $1k → 9%COPPER: $1k → 9%CONCRETE COUCH: $800 → 9%FOOD TO POWER: $500 → 9%MANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $10k → 9%MANITOU ART CENTER: $3k → 9%MANITOU ART CENTER: $1k → 9%MANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $500 → 9%MANITOU ART CENTER: $500 → 9%MANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $250 → 9%BLACKBIRD OUTREACH: $1k → 9%ROCKY MOUNTAIN FIELD INSTITUTE: $100 → 9%MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 9%MILLIBO ART THEATER: $100 → 9%HOMEWARD PIKES PEAK: $983 → 9%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
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
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Fort Collins Mural Project

Our mission is to collaborate with local artists and businesses to promote contemporary art in public spaces in Fort Collins, Colorado. FCMP is focused on providing opportunities for underrepresented and emerging artists in Colorado.

Arts & Culture
3
Mancos Creative District Inc

To create a welcoming, diverse, active creative culture that supports the Mancos Valley by socially and economically.

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4
Gunnison Council for the Arts

The Gunnison Arts Center creates community through the arts by providing accessible and inclusive programs, events, and educational experiences that foster creativity, support local artists, and enrich lives.

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Artists in Recovery

Colorado Artists in Recovery utilizes recovery-oriented principles to provide a safe, encouraging, and inclusive environment for people affected by substance use and mental health. Through our workshops and events we nurture their creative…

Arts & Culture
6
Pikes Peak Athletic Foundation
Recreation & Sports
7
Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission

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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8
Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado

To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.

Philanthropy
9
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
10
Colorado Events

Colorado events mission is to organize community events that increase public knowledge and appreciation for visual arts, fine crafts, and supporting local merchants, by creating opportunities that connect artists and local businesses, with…

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11
Wind River Valley Artist Guild
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12
The Paseo Project Inc

The PASEO Projects mission is to transform art through community and community through art. The PASEO Project lives at the center of three primary values: Art, Education, and Community. The PASEO Projects community is both local and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indygive Dba Give Pikes Peak; the most unlike its peers is Manitou Art Center. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,750 · Recreation & SportsMANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMANITOU ART CENTER: $4,500 · OtherMANITOU ART CENTERCOPPER CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES: $1,000 · OtherCOPPER CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PI…COPPER: $1,000 · OtherCOPPERBlackbird Outreach: $1,000 · OtherBlackbird Outreach+1 more: $100 · OtherINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak: $5,000 · PhilanthropyINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $1,000 · EmploymentHomeward Pikes Peak: $983 · Housing & ShelterCONCRETE COUCH: $800 · Arts & CultureMANITOU ART THEATRE: $100 · Arts & CultureFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $500 · Food & Nutrition
Recreation & Sports$10,750Other$7,600Philanthropy$5,000Employment$1,000Housing & Shelter$983Arts & Culture$900Food & Nutrition$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,750 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMANITOU ART CENTER: $4,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak: $983 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCRETE COUCH: $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOU ART THEATRE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Pikes Peak Community …The Joseph Henry Edmo…El Pomar FoundationINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Dusty and Katherine L…Bee Vradenburg Founda…Colorado Springs Heal…Integrity Bank & Trus…Ent Credit UnionThe Colorado Health F…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…
Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Integrity Bank & Trust Charitable Trust · Ent Credit Union · The Colorado Health Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Ccs Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ccs Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
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    How do I get to Ccs Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ccs Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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