· Public charity
Chinook Fund Inc
Chinook fund seeds community-led, systemic change by mobilizing resources for and trusting in grassroots social justice organizations across colorado.
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.
The 52 grants below total $435,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $467,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUERZA LATINA | $20,000 |
| LAMAR UNIDOS | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO | $20,000 |
| WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $20,000 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| FOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| CEDS FINANCE | $10,000 |
| WEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA BUCUWEST | $10,000 |
| UNDESTRUCTABLE | $10,000 |
| UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA | $10,000 |
| EL MOVIMIENTO SIGUE | $10,000 |
| FAR NORTHEAST RESOURCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER | $10,000 |
| VOICES OF THE LAND | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $423k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 24 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +2%- FCFORT COLLINS COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK6× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +64%
- MUMosaic Unlimited Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $64k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- AEAurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Incone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue 0%
- TWThe Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +363%
Realize Impactgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +70%
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.
WCLI empowers women in Colorado Springs to realize their full leadership potential, breakdown barriers to advancement, create a more inclusive and equitable community for all.
Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
The mission of the Urban Leadership Foundation of Colorado is to invest in the development of minority leaders, empower them to serve in the interest of community, and leverage all resources to address the racial, economic, education,…
The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…
Une action builds people power for racial and economic justice so all coloradans thrive. we do this by organizing in our communities across race, winning bold policy solutions for all, and building a multiracial voting majority that…
Coloradans for food justice is building community power by making sure that every eater in colorado has a voice to make transformative change that represents a more just food system by mobilizing values-driven voters statewide.
The latina initiative is committed to amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. we encourage latinas to vote to ensure they are heard by elected leaders at all levels.
Building Bridges equip inclusive leaders with the skills they need to transform divides in their communities. Building Bridges two key program areas are Transform and Shift. Transform brings together diverse young people from Metro Denver…
The LCCL seeks to advance resource equity and the well-being of community through its mission to find, fund, form, and feature nonprofits in marginalized communities meeting the needs of individuals and families. As a community-facing…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Colorado and the most unlike its peers is The Ajl Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
93 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. 93 of the 111 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 THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Mosaic Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CULTIVANDO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO JOBS WITH JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SACRED VOICES ↗
- Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA ↗
- Who funds COMPOUND OF COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lichen Health ↗
- Who funds HIGHER LEARNING U INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Road Called Strate ↗
- Who funds Western Regional Advocacy Project ↗
- Who funds SEASONED WITH GRACE UNBOXED ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONEJOS COUNTY CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Pine River Shares ↗
- Who funds Lamar Unidos LLC ↗
- Who funds TruNorth Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES ↗
- Who funds Project VOYCE ↗
- Who funds The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds Sisters of Color United for Education ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
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: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Gates Family 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 Chinook Fund Inc 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.
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