· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MINDFUL PROJECT | $1,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| BROADMOOR COURT ASSISTED LIVING | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $800 |
| FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION | $100 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF THE ROCKIES | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| BEAKTHROUGH T1D | $100 |
| MILIBO ART THEATER | $100 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS PHILHARMONIC | $100 |
| RMFI | $100 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOMEN'S FILM | $100 |
| COLORADO VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE | $100 |
| NAMI COLORADO SPRINGS | $100 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MANITOU ART THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Trails and Open Space Coalition ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chapels of Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chapels of Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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