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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 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, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $178k → 9%Young Men's Christian Association: $175k → 9%Young Mens 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
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CO
MO
MD
NM
NC
AL
GA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+28%
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
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

  • CM
    CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $588k · revenue +61%
  • 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%
  • YA
    Young Americans Center for Financial
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
Colorado Longitudinal Study

Advancing the health of people through advancing the science of medicine. the colorado longitudinal study (cols) is building the world's most comprehensive longitudinal collection of biological specimens matched with clinical health and…

Education
2
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
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 Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
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
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
10
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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11
Cherry Creek Schools Foundation

The cherry creek schools foundation's mission is to enhance the educational experience and whole wellbeing of cherry creek school district students, staff, and families through community support that provides inclusive and innovative…

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12
Colorado Health Institute
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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
34/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetColumbine-Lakewood Colorado Soccer Association: $100,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEl Paso Pride Soccer Association: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney 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 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 budgetPEDIATRIC HEART TRANSPLANT SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCONQUERING CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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
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.

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 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

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 Children's Hospital Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Hospital Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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