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Chinook Fund Inc

Chinook fund seeds community-led, systemic change by mobilizing resources for and trusting in grassroots social justice organizations across colorado.

$467k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Human Services$364kCivil Rights$319kCommunity Improvement$282kYouth Development$242kHealth$200kEmployment$156kEducation$124kPhilanthropy$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $435,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $467,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $140k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $295k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUERZA LATINA$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO$20,000
LAMAR UNIDOS$20,000
WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$20,000
FOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER$15,000
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$15,000
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$15,000
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
VOICES OF THE LAND$10,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER$10,000
CEDS FINANCE$10,000
MISSING AND MURDERED DIN RELATIVES COALITION$10,000
PABNEEG$10,000
DENVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
WEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA BUCUWEST$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $6k → 10%MOVIMIENTO: $20k → 11%PABNEEG: $10k → 5%WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $20k → 12%LAMAR UNIDOS: $20k → 19%MOVIMIENTO: $9k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $20k → 12%HOUSEKEYS ACTION NETWORK DENVER: $9k → 12%BLACK LIVES MATTER 5280: $20k → 12%PINE RIVER SHARES: $5k → 12%EL CENTRO AMISTAD: $6k → 12%BLACK LIVES MATTER 5280: $10k → 12%SEASONED WITH GRACE UNBOXED: $20k → 12%LAMAR UNIDOS: $5k → 19%AUTHENTIC CREATIONS PUBLISHING: $15k → 12%CEDS FINANCE: $10k → 8%COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS: $15k → 12%SEASONED WITH GRACE UNBOXED: $15k → 12%URBAN SYMBIOSIS: $5k → 8%COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%HIGHER LEARNING U INC: $20k → 8%COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%HIGHER LEARNING U INC: $13k → 8%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $6k → 10%HIGHER LEARNING U INC: $10k → 8%COMPANEROS: $8k → 12%HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $6k → 12%HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $6k → 12%UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA: $15k → 12%UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA: $10k → 12%UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA: $10k → 12%UNDESTRUCTABLE: $10k → 12%UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA: $10k → 12%UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA: $5k → 12%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $7k → 12%BCDI - DENVER: $7k → 12%ATLANTIS ADAPT: $6k → 12%INNERVISION: $10k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE (COPA): $5k → 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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 51 repeat orgs$548k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
34

Total granted

$1.7M
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+10%

Still filing today

82%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +14%
  • FC
    FORT COLLINS COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK
    6× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +64%
  • MU
    Mosaic Unlimited Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $64k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • AE
    Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue 0%
  • Realize Impactgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +70%
  • TW
    The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +363%
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
Womens Comm Leadership Initiative

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.

Employment
2
Colorado People's Action

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…

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3
Colorado Urban Leadership Foundation

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,…

Education
4
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

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.

Civil Rights
5
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
United for a New Economy Action

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…

Human Services
7
Latina Initiative Colorado

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.

Civil Rights
8
Coloradans for Food Justice

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.

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9
Seeking Common Ground Inc

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…

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10
The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

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…

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights; 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.
04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 111 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/93
Grantees still filing
61/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT COLLINS COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $83,100 · Human ServicesFORT COLLINS COMMUNITY ACTI…UNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNA MANO UNA ESPERANZALichen Health: $43,650 · Human ServicesLichen HealthHIGHER LEARNING U INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesHIGHER LEARNING U INCCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $42,500 · Human ServicesCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMM…HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $39,350 · Human ServicesHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECTWestern Regional Advocacy Project: $35,300 · Human ServicesWestern Regional Advocacy P…SEASONED WITH GRACE UNBOXED: $35,000 · Human ServicesSEASONED WITH GRACE UNBOXEDPine River Shares: $25,000 · Human ServicesLamar Unidos LLC: $25,000 · Human ServicesRealize Impact: $20,000 · Human Services+12 more: $112,700 · Human Services+12 moreMOVE MOUNTAINS PROJECT: $47,000 · OtherHERBAL GARDENS WELLNESS: $30,000 · OtherSACRED VOICES: $54,150 · OtherSACRED VOICESCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $57,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLOR…The Road Called Strate: $39,000 · OtherCOMPOUND OF COMPASSION: $48,450 · OtherCOMPOUND OF COMPASSIONCONEJOS COUNTY CLEAN WATER INC: $30,300 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $30,600 · OtherAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $32,450 · Other+47 more: $529,750 · Other+47 moreTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $86,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO…CULTIVANDO: $62,450 · Community ImprovementCULTIVANDODENVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDENVER COMMU…ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER: $20,000 · Community ImprovementROCKY MOUNTA…Center for African American Health: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for A…Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $14,650 · Community ImprovementFoundation f…MISSING AND MURDERED DINE RELATIVES: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO CHANGEMAKERS COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $53,000 · HealthFOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER: $46,000 · HealthANOTHER LIFE FOUNDATION: $46,000 · HealthTRANSFORMATIVE FREEDOM FUND: $6,000 · HealthCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $6,000 · HealthMosaic Unlimited Inc: $64,000 · EmploymentCOLORADO JOBS WITH JUSTICE INC: $57,450 · EmploymentAurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Inc: $29,000 · EmploymentCREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE: $40,200 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $29,000 · EducationSisters of Color United for Education: $20,000 · EducationResilient Communities Resilient Futures Inc: $12,000 · EducationRISE COLORADO: $10,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationSCD ENRICHMENT PROGRAM: $6,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $6,000 · EducationCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $63,000 · Civil RightsTruNorth Foundation: $24,650 · Civil RightsYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism: $14,500 · Civil RightsEl M0VIMIENTO SIGUE INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 · Civil RightsFORTALEZA FAMILIAR: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$554,600Other$898,700Community Improvement$253,100Health$157,000Employment$150,450Education$133,200Civil Rights$122,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $86,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFORT COLLINS COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $83,100 over 6y, 11% of budgetMosaic Unlimited Inc: $64,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $63,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCULTIVANDO: $62,450 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO JOBS WITH JUSTICE INC: $57,450 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $57,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSACRED VOICES: $54,150 over 4y, 40% of budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $53,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNA MANO UNA ESPERANZA: $50,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetCOMPOUND OF COMPASSION: $48,450 over 4y, 14% of budgetFOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER: $46,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetANOTHER LIFE FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetLichen Health: $43,650 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetHIGHER LEARNING U INC: $43,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $42,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE: $40,200 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $39,350 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Road Called Strate: $39,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWestern Regional Advocacy Project: $35,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $32,450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $30,600 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCONEJOS COUNTY CLEAN WATER INC: $30,300 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $29,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Inc: $29,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPine River Shares: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTruNorth Foundation: $24,650 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES: $20,600 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetProject VOYCE: $20,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetRealize Impact: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSisters of Color United for Education: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMOTUS THEATER: $18,450 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJustice for the People Legal Center: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $14,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $14,650 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAL FRENTE DE LUCHA: $14,650 over 2y, 98% of budgetSan Juan Citizens Alliance: $14,600 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism: $14,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVictim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change: $12,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSpirit of the Sun Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetResilient Communities Resilient Futures Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER: $11,650 over 1y, 1.0% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPADRES UNIDOS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Women's Foundatio…The Colorado TrustColorado Gives Founda…Latino Community Foun…Caring for Denver Fou…Caring for Colorado F…Mile High United Way …Caring for Colorado C…Gates Family Foundati…
The Colorado Health FoundationCO124.7× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Chinook Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chinook Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Chinook Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Chinook Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 111 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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