· Private foundation
City Club Foundation
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY | $11,000 |
| URBAN BOAT BUILDERS | $7,000 |
| REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $6,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PATHWAYS HOSPICE OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF YAMPA VALLEY | $4,000 |
| HAVEN | $4,000 |
| HEARTS 4 HENRY | $3,500 |
| COMO FRIENDS | $3,000 |
| FORT COLLINS RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT BOZEMAN | $3,000 |
| KITTSON COUNTY HOSPICE | $2,500 |
| LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT | $2,000 |
| YARROW COLLECTIVE | $2,000 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of City Club Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- UBURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +26%
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +18%- MOMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- ASARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $4k
- FRFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +85%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.
Empowermt creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequities, and strengthen communities. empowermt envisions a montana where each person is respected…
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Hearts 4 Henry. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 46 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 PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Montana Ballet Company ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds THE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds HEARTS 4 HENRY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO READ OF WELD COUNTY INC JOHN HAEFELI PRESIDENT ↗
- Who funds YARROW COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM NFP ↗
- Who funds NO BARRIERS USA ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP TIMBERLINE ↗
- Who funds BASE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Xcel Energy Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · El Pomar Foundation · Northern Colorado United for Youth · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Nebraska Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health 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 City Club Foundation 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.