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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$879k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.0MEnvironment$778kArts & Culture$433kFood & Nutrition$257kEducation$250kCommunity Improvement$199kHuman Services$157kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $2,576,539, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,756,456 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $179,917 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 $10k18 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $246k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $611k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$13,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHAFFEE CHILDCARE INITIATIVE (ARK VALLEY PRESCHOOL): $15k → 10%CHAFFEE CHILDCARE INITIATIVE: $13k → 10%CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE INITIATIVE: $13k → 10%CHAFFEE CHILDCARE INITIATIVE (ARK VALLEY PRESCHOOL): $7k → 10%CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE INITIATIVE: $6k → 10%ACHIEVE INC: $10k → 10%ACHIEVE INC: $9k → 10%NEW BEES: $8k → 10%ACHIEVE INC: $7k → 10%ACHIEVE INC: $6k → 10%ACHIEVE INC: $5k → 10%SALIDA SENIOR CITIZEN INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER: $14k → 10%SALIDA SENIOR CITIZEN INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 10%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEERSTHE CHAFFEE SHUTTLE: $8k → 10%SALIDA SENIOR CITIZEN INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 10%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEERS DBA MOUNTAIN VALLEY TRANSIT: $6k → 10%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEERSMOUNTAIN VALLEY TRANSIT: $6k → 10%NEW CARING & SHARING: $6k → 10%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 29 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
60

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+44%

Still filing today

72%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $863k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +47% · 28% of their budget
  • GA
    GREATER ARKANSAS RIVER NATURE ASSOC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +70%
  • CH
    CHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +446%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $729k
  • CO
    CITY OF SALIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $26k
  • BV
    BUENA VISTA HERITAGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +65%
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
Sagrada Botanical Gardens

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…

Environment
2
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Huerfano County Economic Development Inc

Promotion of economic development, support local business, provide housing and business support, collaboration of government programs

Community Improvement
4
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
5
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.

Environment
6
Colorado Assoc of Conservation District

The mission of cacd is to serve as the unified voice for the conservation districts of colorado.

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7
San Juan Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc

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.

Environment
8
UpRoot 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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Northern Colorado Clay Crushers
Recreation & Sports
10
Ouray County Historical Society

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.

—
11
Colorado Christian Mission Stations

Mission is to serve needy families of the Upper Arkansas River Valley in the Buena Vista, Colorado community.

Human Services
12
Colorado Mountain Bike Association

COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chaffee County; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 103 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $729,286 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHAFFEE COUNTY: $213,984 · OtherCHAFFEE COUNTYRIVERSIDE DITCH AND ALLEN EXTENSION COMPANY: $153,436 · OtherRIVERSIDE DITCH AND ALLEN EXTENSION COMPANY+72 more: $914,756 · Other+72 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY: $1,176,249 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFF…COLORADO FIRECAMP INC: $76,095 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO FIRECAMP INCelevateHER: $50,666 · Youth Development+2 more: $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentWATERSHED NP INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureWATERSHED NP INCCentral Colorado Conservacy: $342,275 · Arts & CultureCentral Colorado …+3 more: $27,340 · Arts & CultureGREATER ARKANSAS RIVER NATURE ASSOC: $144,974 · EnvironmentGuidestone: $114,306 · EnvironmentSalida Mountain Trails: $29,974 · Environment+2 more: $15,339 · EnvironmentCHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST: $131,929 · Housing & ShelterCHAFFEE COUNTY HOSPITALITY INC: $110,562 · Housing & ShelterChaffee County Early Childhood Council: $84,978 · EducationSHINING MOUNTAINS MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $67,630 · EducationFULL CIRCLE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $46,885 · EducationSalida Montessori Charter School: $18,750 · Education+1 more: $7,500 · EducationCHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE: $53,560 · Human ServicesACHIEVE INC: $37,267 · Human ServicesSALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER: $31,314 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEERS: $20,181 · Human ServicesNEW BEES THRIFT STORE: $7,500 · Human ServicesNEW CARING & SHARING: $5,500 · Human Services
Other$2,011,462Youth Development$1,316,510Arts & Culture$769,615Environment$304,593Housing & Shelter$242,491Education$225,743Human Services$155,322

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY: $1,176,249 over 6y, 28% of budgetCentral Colorado Conservacy: $342,275 over 2y, 28% of budgetGREATER ARKANSAS RIVER NATURE ASSOC: $144,974 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetCHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST: $131,929 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetGuidestone: $114,306 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHAFFEE COUNTY HOSPITALITY INC: $110,562 over 5y, 27% of budgetChaffee County Early Childhood Council: $84,978 over 6y, 13% of budgetSHINING MOUNTAINS MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $67,630 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetCHAFFEE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $66,703 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE: $53,560 over 5y, 18% of budgetelevateHER: $50,666 over 6y, 12% of budgetFULL CIRCLE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $46,885 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetALLIANCE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $45,531 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFoodshed Alliance: $42,394 over 5y, 28% of budgetARK VALLEY HELPING HANDS: $38,637 over 3y, 17% of budgetACHIEVE INC: $37,267 over 5y, 19% of budgetSALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER: $31,314 over 3y, 10% of budgetSalida Mountain Trails: $29,974 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEERS: $20,181 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSalida Montessori Charter School: $18,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Farm to Table Inc: $17,820 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBUENA VISTA HERITAGE: $13,024 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetFARMOR FOUNDATION: $10,017 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFibark Community Paddling Center: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSalida Area Parks Open Space & Trails: $9,717 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTENDERFOOT TRANSMITTING INC: $9,316 over 1y, 13% of budgetARK-VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,718 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BEES THRIFT STORE: $7,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalida Pregnancy Resource Center Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetWEST CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA SOLVISTA HEALTH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEART OF THE ROCKIES: $7,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGRAINERY MINISTRIES: $6,375 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMini-Blessings: $5,936 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetENVISION INC: $5,622 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetChaffee County Amateur Hockey Assoc: $5,582 over 1y, 17% of budgetNEW CARING & SHARING: $5,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSALIDA CONCERTS INC: $5,258 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetChaffee County Economic Development Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 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 ↗

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 Founda…El Pomar FoundationColorado Grand IncThe Colorado Health F…Robert Hoag Rawlings …United Way of Pueblo …Anschutz Family Found…Gates Family Foundati…Nextfifty InitiativeWilliam & Harriet Gou…Meta Alice Keith Brat…The Colorado Trust
Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Chaffee County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chaffee County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 103 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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