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Colorado Business Development Foundation
Colorado Business Development Foundation develops and funds small business resources
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $149,728 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $163,993 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,265 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIKES PEAK SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (EL PASO COUNTY) | $46,610 |
| BOULDER SBDC | $27,440 |
| AURORA-SOUTH METRO SBDC (CITY OF AURORA) | $25,590 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY EDC | $24,895 |
| RIO BLANCO COUNTY | $9,266 |
| PROWERS COUNTY ECONOMIC PROSPERITY | $5,805 |
| OTERO JUNIOR COLLEGE | $5,122 |
| NORTH METRO DENVER SBDC (FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION) | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of your 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 +14% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BCBOULDER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2017–2019 · $137k · revenue -34%
- EPEl Paso County2× · 2018–2019 · $72k
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- WCWESTERN COLORADO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +42%
- ACALAMOSA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $10k
- VCVail Centreone grant, 2018 · $9k
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 assist member counties with economic development and assist with other loan programs.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
Boulder Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is a hands-on, economic development and business assistance nonprofit whose mission is to support the growth and resiliency of small businesses in Boulder County by providing free business…
Providing information and services to existing and prospective businesses and industries.
The Durango Chamber of Commerce is a membership based organization that promotes and supports the local business economy.
To promote and assist in economic development for Fremont County, CO.
Perform research funded by grants from business and philanthropic foundations that support the colorado chamber foundations mission to improve the business environment in colorado.
The Organization supports entrepreneurs, local and small business and hosts events to build a #Givefirst entrepreneurial community in the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado. This is accomplished through programming that involves mentorship,…
A regional Chamber committed to improving the quality of community life driven by business leadership mentorship advocacy and prosperity.
Promoting our community, foster a strong local economy, provide networking & visibility opportunities, represent business interests to government, information source.
Education for youth throughout mesa county, co
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Northern Colorado Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Otero College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 BOULDER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMOSA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Vail Centre ↗
- Who funds Otero College Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Business Development 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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