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Colorado Consumer Health Initiative

Cchi advances the consumer voice to improve access to health care for all coloradans by working statewide for progress toward equity, affordability, and quality.

$197k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$114k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$504kCivil Rights$324kCommunity Improvement$39kPublic Benefit$14kCrime & Legal$8k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $171,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $197,013 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,213 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
$14,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION$114,400
COLORADO LATINO LEADERSHIP$19,000
YOUNG INVINCIBLES$14,300
COLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY$14,300
CHRONIC CARE COLLABORATIVE$9,800
02The need
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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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOUNTAIN DREAMERS: $8k → 9%CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH: $154k → 12%SAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT RESOURCE: $8k → 17%CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH: $148k → 12%CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH: $100k → 12%CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH: $93k → 12%COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $114k → 12%COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $82k → 12%COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $59k → 12%COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA: $25k → 12%COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA: $22k → 12%YOUNG INVINCIBLES: $14k → 12%COLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $14k → 12%CHRONIC CARE COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 12%COLORADO CHANGEMAKERS COLLECTIVE: $8k → 12%COLORADO LATINO LEADERSHIP: $19k → 12%COLORADO LATINO LEADERSHIP: $12k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$827k · 4 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$827k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+102%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • CF
    Center for African American Health
    4× · 2020–2023 · $494k · revenue +1%
  • CI
    COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +125%
  • CO
    COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
    2× · 2020–2023 · $47k · revenue -59%

Funded once

  • CC
    COLORADO CHANGEMAKERS COLLECTIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +102%
  • SL
    SAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT RESOURCEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +57%
  • MD
    MOUNTAIN DREAMERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +386%
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
Latina Initiative Colorado

The latina initiative is committed to amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. we encourage latinas to vote to ensure they are heard by elected leaders at all levels.

Civil Rights
2
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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3
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
4
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
6
Colorado People's Alliance

Colorado people's alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans…

Human Services
7
Colorado Rising State Action

The organization is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

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8
Womens Comm Leadership Initiative

WCLI empowers women in Colorado Springs to realize their full leadership potential, breakdown barriers to advancement, create a more inclusive and equitable community for all.

Employment
9
Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health

The Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health (CIMH) is a collaborative, community based, and research-informed initiative that is a partnership between immigrants, regardless of status, mental health practitioners, community organizers,…

Health
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado

To protect, defend, and extend the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Colorado through litigation, education, and advocacy

—
11
Coalition for Missouri Values

The coalition for missouri values seeks to bring members of our community together around a core set of values that undergird our society and community. together, we aim to gather information, educate and inform our fellow citizens and…

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12
Colorado Health Institute
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights; the most unlike its peers is San Luis Valley Immigrant Resource. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for African American Health: $494,385 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health+1 more: $8,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $255,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITIONYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $14,300 · Civil Rights+1 more: $8,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $47,000 · HealthColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization: $31,000 · OtherCHRONIC CARE COLLABORATIVE: $9,800 · OtherCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $14,300 · Crime & LegalSAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT RESOURCE: $8,000 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$502,385Civil Rights$277,300Health$47,000Other$40,800Crime & Legal$22,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for African American Health: $494,385 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $255,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $47,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization: $31,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $14,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $14,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO CHANGEMAKERS COLLECTIVE: $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT RESOURCE: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN DREAMERS: $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…The Women's Foundatio…The Colorado TrustLatino Community Foun…Merle Chambers FundChinook Fund IncCaring for Colorado F…National Immigration …Rose Foundation
Rose Community FoundationCO23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Merle Chambers Fund · Chinook Fund Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · National Immigration Law Center · Rose 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 Consumer Health Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

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    How do I get to Colorado Consumer Health Initiative?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Consumer Health Initiative 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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