· Public charity
Colorado Enterprise Fund
To accelerate community prosperity by financing and supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $245,940 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $413,701 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,761 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNGRY HEART KITCHENS LLC | $30,000 |
| CABRINI HEALTHCARE LLC | $15,000 |
| UF DIA B LLC | $13,000 |
| KEMAFY LLC | $12,000 |
| APRES SAUNA LLC | $10,000 |
| ZEPHYR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNE | $10,000 |
| STINGERS CAFE LTD | $10,000 |
| SB SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| GEOUPLIFT LLC | $10,000 |
| ALPENGLOW BOOKS LLC | $10,000 |
| LUCKEY STARS EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| TORO FOOD CONCEPTS LLC | $10,000 |
| BLOOMING CONNECTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| GOOD 2 GO TRUCKING LLC | $10,000 |
| ZION SELAH HOME HEALTHCARE AGENCY L | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- ECEVOL CYCLE SPORT LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
- GTGEYSER TECHNOLOGIES LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
- VTVIA TOSCANA INC2× · 2021–2023 · $27k
Funded once
- TCTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUBone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +9%
- BABIG AGNES INCone grant, 2024 · $100k
- AVARKANSAS VALLEY ADVENTURES LLCone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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,…
Inspire by celebrating and sharing the enduring contributions of Colorado's extraordinary women.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.
We are committed to improving the strength and stability of our business community. We help our members maximize the value of their membership to increase success.
Our mission is to expand solar and storage markets and to generate jobs and prosperity for the people of Colorado. Together with hundreds of solar and storage business members we work to advance clean energy policies, remove market…
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
The Durango Chamber of Commerce is a membership based organization that promotes and supports the local business economy.
The mission of cacd is to serve as the unified voice for the conservation districts of colorado.
To support the initiatives of African American business owners and foster an enterprise that focuses on success and viability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Womens Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Greeley Blues Jam. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 810 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB ↗
- Who funds POUDRE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION I ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MOUNTAIN GUIDES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF OUTDOOR RECREATION PROFESSIONALS ↗
- Who funds FREMONT ADVENTURE RECREATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mile High United Way Inc · Colorado Restaurant Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Dreamspring · Gates Family Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Enterprise Fund 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.