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Chaffee County Community Foundation
CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION acts as a catalyst to inspire positive change through the power of philanthropy to enrich the lives of all people in chaffee county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $2,576,539 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,756,456 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $179,917 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 $10k18 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $611k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY | $878,627 |
| WATERSHED NP INC | $400,000 |
| CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY | $315,500 |
| RIVERSIDE DITCH & ALLEN EXTENSION COMPANY | $153,436 |
| CHAFFEE COUNTY | $131,786 |
| COLORADO FIRECAMP INC | $76,095 |
| GUIDESTONE COLORADO | $68,390 |
| SOUTH ARKANSAS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $66,500 |
| CHAFFEE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $61,697 |
| TN BAR CATTLE COMPANY | $52,706 |
| HUTCHINSON RANCH | $47,500 |
| CHAFFEE COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $40,477 |
| CHAFFEE COUNTY HOSPITALITY INC | $27,150 |
| GREATER ARKANSAS RIVER NATURE ASSOCIATION | $26,028 |
| SHINING MOUNTAINS MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $25,153 |
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 (FY20–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +55% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 14 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $863k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +47% · 28% of their budget
- GAGREATER ARKANSAS RIVER NATURE ASSOC6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +70%
- CHCHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +446%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $729k
- COCITY OF SALIDAone grant, 2022 · $26k
- BVBUENA VISTA HERITAGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +65%
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.
The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…
Promotion of economic development, support local business, provide housing and business support, collaboration of government programs
Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.
The mission of cacd is to serve as the unified voice for the conservation districts of colorado.
San juan resource conservation and development council, inc.'s mission is to protect and improve the natural, cultural, historic and economic resources of the eight county area of southwest colorado.
UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…
Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.
Mission is to serve needy families of the Upper Arkansas River Valley in the Buena Vista, Colorado community.
COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chaffee County and the most unlike its peers is Farmor Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 103 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED NP INC ↗
- Who funds Central Colorado Conservacy ↗
- Who funds GREATER ARKANSAS RIVER NATURE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds CHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Guidestone ↗
- Who funds CHAFFEE COUNTY HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Chaffee County Early Childhood Council ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FIRECAMP INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING MOUNTAINS MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHAFFEE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE ↗
- Who funds elevateHER ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds Foodshed Alliance ↗
- Who funds ARK VALLEY HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds SALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Salida Mountain Trails ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds Salida Montessori Charter School ↗
- Who funds Colorado Farm to Table Inc ↗
- Who funds BUENA VISTA HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds FARMOR FOUNDATION ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Grand Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · United Way of Pueblo County Colorado Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative · William & Harriet Gould Foundation · Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation · The Colorado Trust
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 Chaffee County Community 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.