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Colorado Garden Show Inc at a glance

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Colorado Garden Show Inc

To further the study of horticulture through the production of the annual garden & home show and awarding of grants and scholarships.

$647k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$710kEducation$313kEnvironment$273kHuman Services$228kHealth$215kHousing & Shelter$106kArts & Culture$87kRecreation & Sports$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $527,043, the rows itemized in this filing. The $647,347 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $120,304 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 $10k16 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $344k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRAVER MIDDLE SCHOOL$75,000
EATON SENIOR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION$43,700
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$15,000
CONCRETE COUCH$15,000
KAVOD SENIOR LIFE$15,000
RESTORATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS$15,000
CLOUD CITY CONSERVATION CENTER$15,000
FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES$15,000
SUSTAINED FARMS$15,000
DENVER PARK TRUST$15,000
COMMON EARTH COMMUNITY GARDEN$13,293
LOAVES & FISHES MINISTRIES$12,500
GRAND COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH$12,500
GRAND JUNCTION HIGH SCHOOL$12,000
EARTHLINKS$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $15k → 3%BROOMFIELD FISH: $10k → 5%BRIGIT'S BOUNTY COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $13k → 9%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 12%GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $9k → 15%LOAVES & FISHES MINISTRIES: $13k → 17%BROOMFIELD FISH: $8k → 5%VILLAGE ENCHANGE CENTER: $10k → 8%STRIVE: $8k → 11%SUNSHINE CHILDCARE CENTER: $8k → 15%LOAVES & FISHES MINISTRIES: $6k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $10k → 19%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $10k → 8%AVODAH COLLECTIVE: $15k → 8%MT CARMEL HEALTH & WELLNESS COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 18%REDISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $6k → 7%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $11k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $8k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 12%SHILOH HOUSE: $10k → 7%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $11k → 12%SHILOH HOUSE: $10k → 7%YMCA OF METRO DENVER: $10k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$713k · 31 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
67

Total granted

$713k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+3%

Still filing today

81%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +45%
  • SF
    Sustained Farms
    3× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +924%
  • DU
    DENVER URBAN GARDENS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SH
    SPARROW HOUSE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -45% · 37% of their budget
  • MH
    Mental Health Center of Denver
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -2%
  • D9
    Durango 9-R
    one grant, 2024 · $72k
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
Sagrada Botanical Gardens

The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…

Environment
2
UpRoot Colorado

UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…

Food & Nutrition
3
Ag & Food Lab

To provide equitably resource producers and other food organizations focused on food security opportunities programs and services aimed at effective stewardship of resilient food ecosystems and related charitable programs and services…

Food & Nutrition
4
Growing Gardens of Boulder County

Growing gardens' mission is to enrich the lives of our community through sustainable urban agriculture that empowers people to experience a direct and deep connection with plants, the land, and each other.

Environment
5
Urban Symbiosis

Urban Symbiosis is dedicated to promoting sustainable urban agriculture and food sovereignty in urban communities through the development and support of community-driven urban farms and educational programs.

Human Services
6
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
7
Northern Colorado Foodshed Project

To grow colorado's food system to be more productive, accessible and secure.

Food & Nutrition
8
Mountain Roots Food Project

To cultivate a resilient food system in the gunnison valley by enhancing healthy connections between food, earth, and community by fostering knowledge, teaching skills, and providing opportunities that ensure access to affordable,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Lifespan Local Inc

Cultivate community well-being through partnerships with local residents and community champions.

Philanthropy
10
The Growhaus

The mission of the growhaus is to cultivate community-driven food justice through food access and education.

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11
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
12
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Community; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

94 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. 94 of the 129 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/94
Grantees still filing
53/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pueblo County School District 70: $75,000 · OtherPueblo County School District 70Durango 9-R: $72,000 · OtherDurango 9-RHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC: $47,000 · Other+74 more: $940,485 · Other+74 moreDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $27,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE M…FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $26,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FA…VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANG…SHILOH HOME INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSHILOH HOME INCTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $19,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR …Loaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County Inc: $18,500 · Human ServicesLoaves and Fish…COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $17,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVI…WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $15,000 · Human ServicesAVODAH FARMS: $14,713 · Human ServicesBRIGITS BOUNTY COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $12,500 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $12,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTERN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $10,000 · Human ServicesMT CARMEL WELLNESS & COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $45,125 · Human Services+6 moreSPARROW HOUSE MINISTRIES: $75,000 · Food & NutritionSPARROW HOUS…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $63,574 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF…Sustained Farms: $37,735 · Food & NutritionSustained Fa…Colorado Farm to Table Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionColorado Far…FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD TO POWE…SLOW FOOD CO-DENVER: $12,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $14,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $13,100 · EducationMONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS: $12,000 · EducationDISTRICT 51 FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationNEEDFUL PROVISION INC: $10,000 · EducationHAVERN CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $6,500 · EducationINNER-CITY SCHOOL INC: $6,426 · EducationDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $35,000 · EnvironmentLyons Community Farm Project: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $15,000 · EnvironmentCLOUD CITY CONSERVATION CENTER: $15,000 · EnvironmentGuidestone: $10,000 · EnvironmentColorado Tree Coalition Inc: $7,500 · EnvironmentMONTEZUMA SCHOOL TO FARM PROJECT: $6,500 · EnvironmentDURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $5,500 · EnvironmentMental Health Center of Denver: $75,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS COLORADO: $30,500 · HealthAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyEaton Senior Communities Foundation: $43,700 · PhilanthropyHAVEN OF HOPE: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,134,485Human Services$287,338Food & Nutrition$242,309Education$125,026Environment$119,500Health$115,500Philanthropy$108,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPARROW HOUSE MINISTRIES: $75,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $63,574 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC: $47,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEaton Senior Communities Foundation: $43,700 over 1y, 22% of budgetSustained Farms: $37,735 over 3y, 14% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJovial Concepts: $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS COLORADO: $30,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $26,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetColorado Farm to Table Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE PARK PEOPLE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRESTORATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLyons Community Farm Project: $25,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTOWN OF BRISTOL IMPROVEMENTS BOARD: $22,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHILOH HOME INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $19,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLoaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County Inc: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH AND NATURE: $17,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLA VETA VILLAGE INC: $15,200 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAVODAH FARMS: $14,713 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMONTROSE BOTANICAL SOCIETY: $14,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $13,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrand County Historical Association: $13,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetGROWE FOUNDATION: $12,450 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSLOW FOOD CO-DENVER: $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS AT THEIR BEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDFUL PROVISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Trailhead InstituteThe Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Mile High United Way …El Pomar FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado TrustGates Family Foundati…The Anschutz Foundati…Caring for Colorado F…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO79.7× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Trailhead Institute · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Gates Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Caring for Colorado 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 Garden Show Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Garden Show Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Colorado Garden Show Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Garden Show Inc 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 129 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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