· Private foundation
Chapels of Colorado
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| THE MINDFUL PROJECT | $1,000 |
| BROADMOOR COURT ASSISTED LIVING | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $800 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION | $100 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF THE ROCKIES | $100 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOMEN'S FILM | $100 |
| BEAKTHROUGH T1D | $100 |
| PALMER LAND CONSERVANCY | $100 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS PHILHARMONIC | $100 |
| RMFI | $100 |
| COLORADO VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE | $100 |
| NAMI COLORADO SPRINGS | $100 |
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 (FY18–25, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CVColorado Vocal Arts Ensemble6× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +4%
- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2025 · $550 · revenue +80%
- RMRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc2× · 2021–2023 · $350 · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- SHSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $6k
- SAST AMBROSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +83%
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.
Colorado business committee for the arts (cbca)s mission is to advance colorados creative economy by connecting business and arts. we accomplish this mission through statewide advocacy, research, training, volunteerism and arts engagement…
Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…
The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To enrich and inspire a broad community through music.
To conduct research, promote community engagement, and provide an amalgamation of information to the citizens of colorado.
Provide top quality Suzuki Method string instruction to children of all ages, educate parents in their role as a music educator and parent, foster continuing education of faculty associated with Boulder Suzuki Strings, provide financial…
To provide, improve, and maintain, through voluntary public involvement and in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, a linear, non-motorized, sustainable, scenic, recreation trail corridor for hikers,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Conservatory Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 44 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 ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of the Rockies ↗
- Who funds Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANITOU ART THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · The Denver Foundation · H Chase Stone Trust B Xxxxx5009 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Chapels of Colorado 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.