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Colorado Association of Realtors Foundation

To promote safe and affordable housing, advance homeownership for all coloradans, provides housing-related disaster assistance to our neighbors in need as well as support community-based philanthropic activities.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.1MHuman Services$80kHealth$34kCrime & Legal$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kPhilanthropy$18kEducation$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $205,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $220,448 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,448 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING RESOURCES OF WESTERN COLORA$20,000
DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS$20,000
RESPONSE HELP FOR SURVIVORS OF DOME$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK$15,000
SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR$15,000
ABUNDANCE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL$10,000
MANNA SOUP KITCHEN$10,000
HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION$10,000
HOMESFUND$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ROCKY MOUNTAIN$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SAN LUIS VALLE$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MESA COUNTY$10,000
OUR FRONT PORCH$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - COLORADO SPRIN$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $449k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $225k → 14%RESPONSE HELP FOR SURVIVORS OF DOME: $20k → 6%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FDN: $14k → 7%ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY: $10k → 11%COLORADO COALITIOIN FOR THE HOMELES: $50k → 12%THE PLACE: $20k → 9%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR: $15k → 12%THE PLACE: $10k → 9%SAFEHOUSE: $8k → 12%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%TRI-LAKES CARES: $13k → 9%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL: $10k → 12%TRI-LAKES CARES: $7k → 9%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $15k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $10k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$555k · 24 repeat orgs$698k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
29

Total granted

$555k
$590k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+49%

Still filing today

96%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

  • DC
    DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS
    2× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +3%
  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $33k · revenue +519%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK
    2× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue +70%
  • CC
    Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +421%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
2
Housing Colorado

Housing colorado! is a unified voice supporting the presentation and production of quality affordable housing for low and moderate income coloradans through education and advocacy statewide in order to build a strong economy

Housing & Shelter
3
Chaffee County Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
4
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
5
Housing Solutions for the Southwest

The mission of housing solutions for the southwest is to lead the way providing help, hope, and a seamless system of affordable housing services to our communities in southwest colorado.

Housing & Shelter
6
Colorado Community Land Trust Denver Llc

To provide opportunities for low and moderate income people to secure decent affordable housing and to assure quantity, quality and affordability of housing for future low and moderate income individuals.

Philanthropy
7
Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County Inc

To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.

—
8
Colorado Village Collaborative

Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…

Housing & Shelter
9
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
10
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc

To create avenues to stable housing for our community's homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter.

Housing & Shelter
11
Housing Plus

Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
12
Big Bend Habitat for Humanity Inc

Big bend habitat for humanity is dedicated to creating lasting change by helping families in the big bend region achieve the dream of homeownership. as part of the global habitat for humanity network, we work to eliminate barriers to…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVictim Advocacy and Justice…Healthcare Quality and Impr…Trauma Recovery & Disabilit…Youth Development ProgramsAffordable Housing OperatorsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Affordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%45%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr11%42%35–55yr13%4%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
13%
2,994/22,491

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
39/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $225,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONColorado Coalition for the Homeless — $50,000 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for the HomelessThe Place — $30,000 · Human ServicesThe PlaceMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS — $25,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $22,000 · Human ServicesResponse - Help for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault — $20,000 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CARES — $19,000 · Human ServicesRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION — $17,500 · Human Services+5 more — $50,250 · Human Services+5 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC — $50,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK — $32,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FOR…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC — $27,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY…MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $20,000 · OtherMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHENHOUSING RESOURCES OF WESTERN COLORADO — $20,000 · OtherHOUSING RESOURCES OF WESTERN COL…ESTES PARK HOUSING AUTHORITY — $15,000 · OtherCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC — $15,000 · OtherFOOTHILLS UNITED WAY INC — $12,500 · OtherADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF ASSAULT INC — $12,500 · OtherEXTREME COMMUNITY MAKEOVER — $16,625 · Other+16 more — $138,900 · Other+16 moreNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $32,500 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR IN…BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT …COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $22,500 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMIL…DOORS 2 SUCCESS — $22,000 · Housing & ShelterDOORS 2 SUCCESSGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMIT…OUR FRONT PORCH — $18,426 · Housing & ShelterOUR FRONT PORCHCHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST — $18,000 · Housing & ShelterCHAFFEE HOUSING TRUSTHOMESFUND — $16,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMESFUNDPartners in Housing Inc — $15,750 · Housing & ShelterPartners in Housing IncMETROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN DENVER HOM…THE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterABUNDANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MESA COUNTY — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $14,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 moreDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $45,000 · HealthBOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT — $30,000 · HealthColorado Veterans Resource Coalition — $6,500 · HealthVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $30,000 · Public BenefitHBA FOUNDATION DBA HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationGROWING HOME INC — $20,000 · Religion
Human Services$481,250Other$360,525Housing & Shelter$259,676Health$81,500Public Benefit$30,000Education$20,000Religion$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK — $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Place — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $22,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDOORS 2 SUCCESS — $22,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetHBA FOUNDATION DBA HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetResponse - Help for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES OF WESTERN COLORADO — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES — $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOUR FRONT PORCH — $18,426 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST — $18,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEXTREME COMMUNITY MAKEOVER — $16,625 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHOMESFUND — $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc — $15,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — $13,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOTHILLS UNITED WAY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF ASSAULT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABUNDANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MESA COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE HOME SHARE COLORADO — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY — $7,250 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…Mile High United Way …The Colorado Health F…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationDaniels FundRose Community Founda…Hill Foundation Wells…The Sam S Bloom Found…Trailhead InstituteAv Hunter Trust Incor…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO69.5× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Rose Community Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · The Sam S Bloom Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated

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 Association of Realtors 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    34report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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