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Colorado Community College System Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Colorado Community College System Foundation

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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$913k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$13MHealth$86k
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $3,294,572, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,506,595 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $212,023 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $313k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$56,915
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM$913,013
FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$316,875
PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$301,462
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FOUNDATION$263,032
ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$173,208
PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$171,351
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION$170,863
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER$167,478
MORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$143,594
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA$99,752
RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$82,500
CO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$62,420
PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$56,915
PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE$51,177
RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$46,732
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $124k → 7%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $315k → 9%CO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $68k → 10%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $222k → 10%COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70k → 11%MORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $201k → 12%COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $952k → 12%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $203k → 15%RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $104k → 7%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $301k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $171k → 10%MORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $144k → 12%COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $913k → 12%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $171k → 15%RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $102k → 7%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $198k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $126k → 10%COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $411k → 12%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $155k → 15%RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $94k → 7%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $188k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $108k → 10%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA: $145k → 12%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $134k → 15%RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $84k → 7%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $162k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $97k → 10%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA: $100k → 12%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $115k → 15%RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $83k → 7%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $149k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $72k → 10%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $86k → 15%RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $81k → 7%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $123k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $71k → 10%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $84k → 15%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $116k → 9%PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $82k → 15%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $107k → 9%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $317k → 10%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $242k → 10%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $209k → 10%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $204k → 10%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $173k → 10%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $157k → 10%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $142k → 10%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 16 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$13M
$161k

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FR
    FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +108%
  • PP
    PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +36%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • PP
    PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $107k
  • FR
    FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $54k
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 Community College System Foundation

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
2
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

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.

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4
El Paso Community College Foundation

The foundation was formed to receive gifts and to invest, manage and distribute such gifts for the benefit of the el paso community college and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities of the college.

Education
5
Central New Mexico Community College Foundation Inc

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…

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6
Cerro Coso Community College Foundation

The foundation was established with the express purpose of promoting and assisting the educational programs of cerro coso college in accordance with the missions , policies and priorities of the college as administered by it's president.

Education
7
Northwest Mississippi Community College Foundation

The northwest mississippi community college foundation (the foundation), is a non-profit organization located on the northwest mississippi community college's (nwcc) campus. the foundation's purpose is to raise funds to assist nwcc is…

Education
8
Fort Scott Community College Foundation

To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.

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9
Lower Columbia College Foundation

Lower columbia college foundation's mission is to provide financial support where public funds are not sufficient, and to gather public support for the enhancement of educational opportunities at lower columbia college.

Education
10
South Texas Community College Education Foundation

The mission of the south texas college foundation is to garner resources that assist south texas college in acheving educational excellence, servicing the diverse needs of the college through partnerships and fundraising from various…

Education
11
Northern New Mexico College Foundation

Increase, manage, and distribute resources for the benefit of the students, the college, and the community

Education
12
Columbia State Community College Foundation

The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pueblo Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,693,799 · EducationFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,552,017 · EducationPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN: $1,365,092 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDNCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $1,160,573 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATIONPueblo Community College Foundation: $1,000,395 · EducationPueblo Community College FoundationMORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $439,642 · EducationMORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION+5 more: $840,686 · Education+5 moreCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA: $3,388,174 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORAARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $840,333 · OtherARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $795,077 · OtherRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION+4 more: $312,150 · Other+4 moreLAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $140,485 · Philanthropy
Education$8,052,204Other$5,335,734Philanthropy$140,485

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 budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,693,799 over 8y, 17% of budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,552,017 over 8y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN: $1,365,092 over 8y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $1,160,573 over 8y, 17% of budgetPueblo Community College Foundation: $1,000,395 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $840,333 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $795,077 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetMORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $439,642 over 8y, 11% of budgetNORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUND: $245,719 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetTRINIDAD STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $234,742 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetOtero College Foundation: $188,948 over 8y, 50% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $146,277 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $143,718 over 7y, 10% of budgetLAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $140,485 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Pueblo Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MORGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUND ↗
  • Who funds TRINIDAD STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Otero College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗

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.

Roof F T CharDaniels FundColorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…The Denver FoundationEnt Credit UnionRobert Hoag Rawlings …Boettcher FoundationWestern Colorado Comm…
Roof F T CharMO30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Roof F T Char · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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