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Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen.

$97M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2,211
Grants FY2024still arriving
32
States reached
$2.2M
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 2024.

Health$94MHuman Services$91MEducation$74MArts & Culture$51MFood & Nutrition$45MAnimals$44MHousing & Shelter$31MPhilanthropy$29MOther$0
02FY2024 · 2211 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2,211 grants below total $90,980,931, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,609,331 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,628,400 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 $10k627 grants · $4.6M
  • $10k–50k1144 grants · $27M
  • $50k–250k403 grants · $40M
  • $250k+37 grants · $20M
$17,814
Median grant
32
States reached
$527M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VITALANT$2,210,186
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$1,528,984
JEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH$1,364,508
THE ACTION CENTER$871,187
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS INC$855,620
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$833,245
GJ BLACKOUT$713,506
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$636,595
ST ANNES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC$546,843
HUMANE COLORADO$538,607
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC$537,044
SUCCESS FOUNDATION SERVING GREELEY-EVANS SCHOOLS INC$530,558
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC$518,703
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC$513,882
REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$506,588
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 (FY17–24, $52.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $324k → 14%BROOMFIELD FISH: $737k → 5%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $352k → 6%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $312k → 12%MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $400k → 7%BROOMFIELD FISH: $429k → 5%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $310k → 12%BROOMFIELD FISH: $320k → 5%BROOMFIELD FISH: $317k → 5%ECDC AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $357k → 7%COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD INC: $305k → 5%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $451k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $358k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $355k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $345k → 12%FAMILY TREE: $525k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE: $570k → 12%HOPE HOUSE COLORADO: $1.2M → 7%HOPE HOUSE COLORADO: $575k → 7%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $905k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $412k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $607k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $511k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $439k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $436k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $402k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $354k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $353k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $979k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $945k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $833k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $803k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $788k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $748k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $731k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $659k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE: $567k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $561k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE: $544k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DEN: $541k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE: $493k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $492k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE: $480k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $1.2M → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $430k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $453k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $451k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $419k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
WA
ID
MT
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MN
IL
WI
NY
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OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550M · 1897 repeat orgs$9.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

1897 repeat relationships: 1663 still active in FY2024, 234 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1897
32

Total granted

$550M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
0%

Still filing today

95%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • V
    Vitalant
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +54%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.9M · revenue +74%
  • JC
    JEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • CP
    COLORADO PAY IT FORWARD FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity International Inc Habitat for Humanity of Montezuma Countygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $408k · revenue +67%
  • TM
    THE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue +125% · 59% of their budget
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.

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Aia Colorado

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…

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2
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
3
Rocky Mountain Values

Rocky Mountain Values is a Colorado non-profit organization that is made up of real Coloradans fighting to make sure that we can all earn a good living and have a good life no matter our zip code.

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4
The Colorado Trust
Philanthropy
5
Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights
6
Colorado Press Association

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…

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7
Usa Triathlon of Colorado

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

Recreation & Sports
8
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
9
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
10
Boulder Housing Coalition

Provide affordable cooperative housing to the people of Boulder County, Colorado.

Housing & Shelter
11
Colorado West Healthcare System

Improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.

Health
12
Destination Colorado Meetings

a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado; the most unlike its peers is La Clinica Tepeyac. 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

1925 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. 1925 of the 2,000 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.

196
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
898
Early backer (in before they grew)
1883/1925
Grantees still filing
1553/1925
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $6,486,763 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSIO…CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $4,246,665 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES &…Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $3,404,740 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition f…HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $2,657,693 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,653,714 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,624,089 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $2,616,243 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $2,473,087 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $2,438,622 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $1,983,365 · Human Services+25 more: $23,319,235 · Human Services+25 moreJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $5,585,665 · Other+83 more: $103,869,608 · Other+83 moreVitalant: $12,890,055 · HealthVitalantJEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $6,628,946 · HealthJEFFERSON CENTER…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $5,389,617 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN P…INTERMOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE INC: $4,077,658 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN FR…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,372,070 · HealthChildren's Hospi…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,523,896 · Health+13 more: $11,208,313 · Health+13 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $10,264,672 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $4,157,184 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO O…Columbine Community Foundation: $1,658,011 · PhilanthropyColumbine …MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,634,425 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH …BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $1,140,957 · PhilanthropyLEADVILLE TRAIL 100 LEGACY INC: $960,750 · Philanthropy+10 more: $7,803,568 · Philanthropy+10 moreARMA DEI ACADEMY INC: $3,831,491 · EducationARMA DEI …THE RISE SCHOOL OF DENVER: $2,185,998 · EducationTHE RISE …Food For Thought Denver: $1,998,972 · EducationFood For …DENVER KIDS INC: $1,777,996 · EducationDENVER KI…THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $1,642,155 · EducationTHE JEFFE…I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $1,430,491 · EducationI Have A …COLORADO UPLIFT INC: $1,265,628 · EducationSECOND WIND FUND INC: $1,188,444 · EducationALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION: $1,050,695 · EducationWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $1,025,949 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $1,005,625 · EducationSTANLEY BRITISH PRIMARY SCHOOL: $916,755 · EducationDENVER MONTESSORI SOCIETY: $888,951 · Education+8 more: $5,460,533 · Education+8 moreTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $4,416,090 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $3,911,041 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $1,739,976 · AnimalsCAT CARE SOCIETY: $1,634,584 · AnimalsGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $1,421,384 · AnimalsFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $1,279,366 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $1,265,672 · AnimalsTHE MAXFUND INC: $1,068,289 · AnimalsLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $922,965 · AnimalsW O L F: $863,537 · AnimalsNoco Humane: $765,433 · AnimalsCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $736,185 · Animals+3 more: $2,000,480 · AnimalsFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $9,874,315 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $2,560,420 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $1,805,258 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $1,600,069 · Food & NutritionTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $1,162,916 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $967,190 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc: $876,143 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INC: $837,767 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $836,877 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $610,786 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$54,904,216Other$109,455,273Health$44,090,555Philanthropy$27,619,567Education$25,669,683Animals$22,025,002Food & Nutrition$21,131,741

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetVitalant: $12,890,055 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $10,264,672 over 8y, 15% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $9,874,315 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetJEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $6,628,946 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $6,486,763 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $5,585,665 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $5,389,617 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $4,416,090 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $4,246,665 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $4,157,184 over 8y, 24% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE INC: $4,077,658 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $3,911,041 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetARMA DEI ACADEMY INC: $3,831,491 over 8y, 43% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $3,551,210 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $3,404,740 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $3,302,663 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetColorado Healing Fund: $3,225,850 over 5y, 56% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $2,948,885 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $2,879,892 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $2,812,729 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $2,657,693 over 8y, 20% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,653,714 over 8y, 16% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,624,089 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $2,616,243 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $2,560,420 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $2,473,087 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $2,443,763 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $2,438,622 over 8y, 17% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,372,070 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RISE SCHOOL OF DENVER: $2,185,998 over 8y, 29% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $2,036,635 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetMETRO CARING: $2,011,169 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $1,998,972 over 8y, 27% of budgetEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $1,983,365 over 8y, 18% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $1,805,258 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $1,777,996 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $1,739,976 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $1,719,352 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $1,712,469 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES: $1,679,801 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetColumbine Community Foundation: $1,658,011 over 8y, 19% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $1,642,155 over 8y, 54% of budgetCAT CARE SOCIETY: $1,634,584 over 8y, 17% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,634,425 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $1,600,069 over 8y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $1,544,802 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $1,537,953 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $1,526,095 over 8y, 12% 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 Vitalant ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds ARMA DEI ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Coalition for the Homeless ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Healing Fund ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER ↗
  • Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE RISE SCHOOL OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METRO CARING ↗
  • Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗

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.

Anschutz Family Found…Schlessman Foundation…Hill Foundation Wells…The Colorado Health F…Boettcher FoundationRose Community Founda…The Anschutz Foundati…Caring for Colorado F…El Pomar FoundationThe Colorado TrustNathan B & Florence R…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…
Anschutz Family FoundationCO180.8× affinity383 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anschutz Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · The Colorado Health Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 Gives Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Gives Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    84report 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.

    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 2000 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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