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Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

$806k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.4MHuman Services$974kAnimals$945kArts & Culture$635kEducation$505kHealth$488kInternational$180kHousing & Shelter$92kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $352k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $392k
$12,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES$160,000
BUFFALO SPORTS PROPERTIES LLC$137,500
CHEYENNE MNTN ZLGCL SOC$94,300
GLD CRWN FNDTN INC$45,000
DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION$42,500
SWITCHBACKS FC$41,200
TEALL PROPERTIES GROUP LLC$40,000
CHILDRENS MSM OF DNVR INC$35,000
CO COLLEGE$22,500
CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS INC$18,300
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$14,000
PIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION$13,500
YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL$12,500
YMCA OF NORTHERN COLORADO & BOULDER VALL$12,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $741k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $178k → 9%Young Mens Christian Association: $175k → 9%Young Men's Christian Association: $175k → 9%YMCA OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $33k → 9%YMCA OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $31k → 9%YOUNG MEN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $30k → 9%YMCA OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $11k → 9%BRIGHT BY THREE: $10k → 12%YMCA OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $8k → 9%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $30k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $30k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $15k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 41 repeat orgs$599k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
19

Total granted

$4.7M
$425k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

83%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • CM
    CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $588k · revenue +101%
  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $333k · revenue +14%
  • GC
    GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Globalgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +82%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +79%
  • FH
    FETAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -63%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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6
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
7
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…

Arts & Culture
8
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
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The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
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Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
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Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
12
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fetal Health 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%55%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
13%
2,359/17,583

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
33/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUFFALO SPORTS PROPERTIES LLC — $250,000 · OtherBUFFALO SPORTS PROPERTIES LLCSWITCHBACKS FC — $229,200 · OtherSWITCHBACKS FCReal Colorado Soccer — $204,500 · OtherReal Colorado SoccerPapua New Guinea Tribal Foundation — $180,000 · OtherPapua New Guinea Tribal FoundationCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS INC — $128,800 · OtherCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS INCTEALL PROPERTIES GROUP — $80,000 · OtherColumbine-Lakewood Colorado Soccer Association — $100,000 · OtherColumbine-Lakewood Colorado Soccer …YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION — $79,500 · OtherTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $62,827 · Other+16 more — $322,600 · Other+16 moreCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $588,300 · AnimalsCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZO…DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $332,500 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FO…+1 more — $24,600 · AnimalsYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $640,531 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER — $90,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC — $160,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONA…Ronald McDonald House Global — $150,000 · HealthRonald McDona…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $95,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONA…American Heart Association Inc — $52,750 · HealthAmerican Hear…MARCH OF DIMES INC — $46,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIME…CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $29,000 · Health+9 more — $106,850 · Health+9 moreTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC — $285,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDR…Colorado Museum of Natural History — $55,900 · Arts & CultureColorado M…WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER — $40,000 · Arts & CultureWOW CHILDR…Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra — $30,000 · Arts & CultureColorado S…FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $37,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION — $225,000 · EducationCOLORADO H…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE COLORADO COLLEGE — $88,750 · EducationTHE COLORA…PIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC — $74,000 · EducationPIKES PEAK…GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION — $315,000 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK OR BUST RODEO FOUNDATION — $27,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,637,427Animals$945,400Human Services$740,531Health$640,100Arts & Culture$487,900Education$487,750Philanthropy$352,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $640,531 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $588,300 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $332,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION — $315,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC — $285,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION — $225,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetReal Colorado Soccer — $204,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPapua New Guinea Tribal Foundation — $180,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC — $160,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS INC — $128,800 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbine-Lakewood Colorado Soccer Association — $100,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $95,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $88,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION — $79,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC — $74,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $62,827 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History — $55,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $52,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY — $48,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER — $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetColorado Springs Youth Sports Complex Inc — $38,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetColorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPIKES PEAK OR BUST RODEO FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM — $24,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEl Paso Pride Soccer Association — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFETAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE — $12,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPIKES PEAK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $10,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetCONQUERING CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPEDIATRIC HEART TRANSPLANT SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Pikes Peak Community …Daniels FundLibertygives Foundati…The Anschutz Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationColorado Springs Heal…The Joseph Henry Edmo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO38× affinity21 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 · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · Libertygives Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson 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 Children's Hospital 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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