How much did COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2021

disruption duedue covidbusiness disruption

2022

business disruption

2023

bus accelaccel growdisaster recoveryunderserved business

2024

disaster recoveryunderserved businessbiz growth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $54k
$10k–50k21 grants · $307k
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$79M

Total assets

Largest grants

ARKANSAS VALLEY ADVENTURES LLC$100,000
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O$100,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB$100,000
AVID4 ADVENTURE INC$100,000
BIG AGNES INC$100,000
POUDRE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
QUIKRSTUFF LLC$100,000
MEIER LLC$100,000
YMCA OF THE ROCKIES$99,899
OVEJA NEGRA$99,350
AMERICAN MOUNTAIN GUIDES ASSOCIATIO$97,664
THE WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE$96,250
EVOL CYCLE SPORT LLC$91,666
GEYSER TECHNOLOGIES LLC$84,376
GO WEST CAMPS LLC$78,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$394k · 11 repeat orgs$10.0M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

732

Total granted

$394k

$8.2M

Still filing today

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

GT
GEYSER TECHNOLOGIES LLC
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
EC
EVOL CYCLE SPORT LLC
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
VT
Via Toscana LLC
2× · 2021–2023 · $27k

Funded once

ND
Novedades Diana LLC
one grant, 2021 · $30k
D
DJIMI-DJAMA
one grant, 2022 · $25k
WC
Walnut Cafe Inc
one grant, 2021 · $22k

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.

Denver Press Club

Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…

Arts & Culture

JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

Colorado Business Development Foundation

Colorado Business Development Foundation develops and funds small business resources

Philanthropy

Colorado Jazz Ambassadors

Arts & Culture

Colorado Chamber of Commerce

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,…

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Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities

Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.

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Denver Center for the Performing Arts

We engage and inspire through the transformative power of live theatre.

Arts & Culture

Usa Triathlon of Colorado

The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.

Recreation & Sports

Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc

The mission of Colorado Outdoor Education Center is to develop the potential of individuals by providing extraordinary educational experiences in the natural world.

Environment

Western Colorado University

The mission of the foundation is to aid, directly or indirectly, western colorado university in fulfilling its educational purposes

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Zen Center of Denver

The purpose of the zen center of denver is to foster the teaching of zen to provide greater harmony and peace in ones own life and that of others, and to provide suitable surroundings in which to carry that out.

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Colorado Assoc of Conservation District

The mission of cacd is to serve as the unified voice for the conservation districts of colorado.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Womens Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is West Community Economic Development Corp. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.1%1/809

the rest of the field

12%

2,267/18,145

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.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

21/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,785,415Environment$218,000Human Services$201,759Arts & Culture$60,000Food & Nutrition$45,870Community Improvement$35,130Education$31,079

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.

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.

Mile High United Way IncCO15.1× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mile High United Way Inc · Colorado Restaurant Foundation · Dreamspring · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 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.

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

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: Denver Jewish Chamber of Commerce.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841407091 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 Denver Jewish Chamber of Commerce, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% 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 Enterprise Fund?

Find your warmest path to Colorado Enterprise Fund 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.

COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Colorado Enterprise Fund?

More from the funding graph

COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Colorado Enterprise Fund?

More from the funding graph