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Colorado Access Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $865k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC | $514,225 |
| FOUNDATION OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIES | $275,576 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| COLORADO BLUEPRINT TO END HUNGER | $250,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $215,248 |
| KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE | $200,000 |
| TGTHR | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| THE FAX PARTNERSHIP | $125,000 |
| A PROJECT OF COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES | $50,000 |
| CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND DBA | $25,000 |
| ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COLORADO ARTISTS IN RECOVERY | $10,000 |
| A LITTLE HELP | $10,000 |
| NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $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 (FY22–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- MSMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $912k · revenue +71%
- TITRAILHEAD INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +33%
- EDEAST DENVER COLFAX PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue -21%
Funded once
- CFCenter for African American Healthone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +1%
- HFHUNGER FREE COLORADOone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -19%
- APA PRECIOUS CHILD INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +4%
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.
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
Support the work of the denver health and hospital authority in its mission to sustain and advance the health and well-being of denver, colorado and the rocky mountain region.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
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.
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…
Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund and the most unlike its peers is Dignity Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EAST DENVER COLFAX PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds Center for African American Health ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CONSUMER HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Artists in Recovery ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ACCESS HOUSING OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Boettcher Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · Caring for Denver Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative · Xcel Energy 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 Colorado Access 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.
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