Loading…
· Public charity
COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM
To support the mission of the COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
$3.8M
Granted FY2024
24
Grants
1
Communities
$952k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$5.8MPhilanthropy$102kOther$3.4M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
mesa
2021
—
2022
—
2023
—
2024
—
2025
—
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 24 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$83,694
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM$951,788
- PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$314,957
- FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$208,765
- MORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$200,916
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FOUNDATION$165,939
- PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$154,592
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA$145,226
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER$126,729
- ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$114,449
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION$108,139
- PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE$106,972
- RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$83,694
- PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$68,213
- CO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$68,213
- FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$53,750
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 92% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.2M · 16 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
16
1
Total granted
$9.2M
$2k
Still filing today
88%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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
- FRFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +85%
- PPPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
- CCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TCTECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2019 · $2k
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
The Colorado College
To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.
Education
2
Colorado Community College System
To support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
Education
3
North Central State College Foundation
The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.
—
4
Fort Scott Community College
To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.
—
5
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation
The mission of the cuyahoga community college foundation is (continued on schedule o)to provide resources for advancing student success at cuyahoga community college and to transform the lives of those tri-c serves. our vision is to ensure…
Education
6
Central New Mexico Community College
The cnm foundation is committed to the principle that no central new mexico community college student should be denied the opportunity for an education or vocational training due solely to a lack of financial resources. the cnm foundation…
—
7
Sierra College Foundation
Provide our community the opportunity to invest in the development of quality educational opportunities for all at sierra joint community college district. raise funds in support of our students and college programs.
Education
8
Tacoma Community College Foundation
The tacoma community college foundation assists the college in its mission by increasing financial resources and expanding educational opportunities through community advocacy, teamwork, and innovation. the foundation supports educational,…
Education
9
Oklahoma City Community College Foundation
To support various educational programs of oklahoma city community college and provide scholarships to students of oklahoma city community college.
Philanthropy
10
Columbia State Community College
Encourages improvement of education at our college and making higher education accessible.
—
11
El Paso Community College Foundation
The foundation was formed to receive gift and distribute such gifts for the benefit of epcc and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities.
Education
12
Blue Ridge Community College Educational
The foundation provides grants for scholarships and other support to blue ridge community college.
—
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pueblo Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trinidad State College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
14/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$5,814,740Other$3,407,541Philanthropy$102,455
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 FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINIDAD STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OTERO JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FNDN ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Daniels FundCO30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Daniels Fund · Roof F T Char · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Trust · The Denver Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Western Colorado Community · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 organisation COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841078004 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Colorado Community College System?
Find your warmest path to Colorado Community College System through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines