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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$514k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$945kEducation$912kFood & Nutrition$335kEnvironment$276kCommunity Improvement$255kHousing & Shelter$180kPhilanthropy$75kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $865k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND DBA$25,000
A LITTLE HELP$10,000
COLORADO CONSUMER HEALTH INITIATIVE$10,000
NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $20k → 5%TGTHR: $150k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $10k → 12%DIGNITY PROJECT INC: $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.
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 3 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$1.7M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $912k · revenue +71%
  • TI
    TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +33%
  • ED
    EAST DENVER COLFAX PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • CF
    Center for African American Health
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +1%
  • HF
    HUNGER FREE COLORADO
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -19%
  • AP
    A PRECIOUS CHILD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +4%
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 Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
2
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
3
Healthier Colorado

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…

Health
4
Colorado Health Network Inc
Health
5
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation

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.

—
6
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
7
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
8
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
9
Colorado Health Institute
Health
10
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

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.

—
11
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…

—
12
Colorado Healing Fund

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

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $500,000 · HealthTRAILHEAD INSTITUTEChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $215,248 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado F…KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE: $200,000 · HealthKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE+1 more: $10,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $911,608 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY …+1 more: $10,000 · EducationFOUNDATION OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIES: $275,576 · OtherFOUNDATION OF SUSTAINABL…Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…Individual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…A PROJECT OF COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES: $50,000 · OtherA PROJECT OF COLLABORATI…+5 more: $40,000 · Other+5 moreEAST DENVER COLFAX PARTNERSHIP INC: $249,889 · Community ImprovementEAST DENVER COL…Center for African American Health: $200,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for Afri…+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementATTENTION INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY PROJECT: $15,000 · Human ServicesA LITTLE HELP: $10,000 · Human ServicesHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $75,000 · Food & NutritionRose Community Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Health$925,248Education$921,608Other$740,576Community Improvement$454,889Human Services$195,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Philanthropy$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $911,608 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEAST DENVER COLFAX PARTNERSHIP INC: $249,889 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $215,248 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE: $200,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $200,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetATTENTION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetColorado Artists in Recovery: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLORADO CONSUMER HEALTH INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetA LITTLE HELP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS HOUSING OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Boettcher FoundationCaring for Colorado F…The Colorado TrustKaiser Foundation Hea…Caring for Denver Fou…Nextfifty InitiativeXcel Energy Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Colorado Access Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Access Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colorado Access Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Access Foundation 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 25 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-PF 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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