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Colorado Grand Inc

The organization runs a car tour every year to raise funds to contribute to carefully selected colorado charities.

$993k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MHealth$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MEducation$511kArts & Culture$459kFood & Nutrition$331kHuman Services$218kCrime & Legal$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $952,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $992,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,000 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO STATE PATROL FAMILY FOUNDATION$450,000
MCPHERSON COLLEGE$75,000
MCPHERSON COLLEGE$75,000
SALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS$30,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION$20,000
GRAND ENCAMPMENT MUSEUM$15,000
SUMMIT COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$15,000
GRAND COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE$15,000
CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES (FLIGHT FOR LIFE)$15,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPERTORY THEATER$15,000
CASA OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE$15,000
MEEKER LIONS CLUB$15,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $389k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SUMMIT COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE: $8k → 9%The Pinon Project: $14k → 15%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%Summit County Family Resource: $7k → 9%Jackson County Council on Agi: $14k → 14%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%Advocates of Lake Co: $10k → 11%Vail Valley Charitable Fund: $8k → 7%Paradox Sports: $16k → 12%Jackon Cnty Council on Aging: $12k → 14%A Little Help: $15k → 12%Jackson County Council on Aging: $12k → 14%Six Points Evaluation and Training: $4k → 10%Pioneers Healthcare Foundation: $10k → 10%Paradox Sports: $10k → 12%JACKSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 14%Pioneers Healthcare Fdn: $10k → 10%Advocates of Lake County: $8k → 11%A Little Help: $15k → 12%Jackson County Council on Aging: $10k → 14%Pioneers Healthcare Foundation: $10k → 10%Advocates of Lake Co: $8k → 11%Community Connections: $10k → 12%ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY: $8k → 11%SALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS: $30k → 10%The Salida Senior Citizens In: $20k → 10%The Salida Senior Citizens In: $12k → 10%Summit County Family Resource: $8k → 9%The Salida Senior Citizens In: $10k → 10%SALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS: $10k → 10%SUMMIT COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 9%NEW CARING & SHARING: $8k → 10%Summit Co Fam Res Center: $8k → 9%SUMMIT COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 9%Summit Co Fam Res Center: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 51 repeat orgs$683k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
60

Total granted

$4.7M
$626k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+20%

Still filing today

86%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE PATROL FAMILY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +111%
  • MC
    MCPHERSON COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $171k · revenue +6%
  • CO
    CASA OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOLK SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • LP
    LA PLATA COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k

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.

1
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Colorado Health Institute
Health
4
Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado

To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.

Philanthropy
5
Ouray County Historical Society

Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.

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6
First Southwest Community Fund

First Southwest Community Fund supports the dedicated entrepreneurial spirit of rural Colorado, by investing in the people, culture and ideas that fuel innovation and financial knowledge in our community, with an emphasis on areas of…

Human Services
7
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
8
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
9
Friends of the Dillon Ranger District

To engage our community and support the US Forest Service's Dillon Ranger District in stewardship through: adult and youth education and diverse volunteer programs, to preserve and enhance our public lands.

Environment
10
Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.

Animals
11
Columbine Community Foundation

The Grand Foundation is a philanthropic organization serving all of Grand County, Colorado. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in Grand County by proactively addressing current and future needs in the areas of Health &…

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association and the most unlike its peers is Robert D Sutherland Memorial Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%64%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr14%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/115
the rest of the field
12%
1,930/15,663

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.

04the grantee network

94 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. 94 of the 118 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
59/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO STATE PATROL FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,412,650 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO STATE PATROL FAMILY FOUNDATIONSALIDA ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND INC — $91,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $129,500 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient — $166,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $79,000 · OtherCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE F…GRAND ENCAMPMENT MUSEUM INC — $75,000 · OtherGRAND ENCAMPMENT MUSEUM INCNeedlerock Family Health Clinic — $52,500 · OtherGUNNISON COUNTY PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $45,000 · OtherCASA OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE — $101,000 · OtherCASA OF THE CONTINENTAL DIV…+53 more — $818,500 · Other+53 moreCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $109,500 · HealthCATHOLIC …NORTH FORK AMBULANCE AUXILIARY — $72,100 · HealthNORTH FOR…THE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $70,000 · HealthTHE MORGA…Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North — $46,780 · HealthChaffee C…MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $45,000 · HealthMOAB FREE…NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $16,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $15,000 · HealthValley Citizens Foundation for Health Care Inc — $15,000 · Health+6 more — $54,500 · Health+6 moreSALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER — $82,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER — $59,500 · Human ServicesJACKSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $58,000 · Human ServicesVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesPIONEERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesA LITTLE HELP — $30,000 · Human ServicesPARADOX SPORTS — $26,000 · Human ServicesThe Pinon Project — $14,000 · Human Services+4 more — $29,000 · Human ServicesGRAND MESA ARTS & EVENTS CENTER INC — $43,633 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PERRY MANSFIELD — $41,500 · Arts & CultureGalloping Goose Historical Society of Dolores Inc — $39,000 · Arts & CultureRIDGWAY CHAUTAUQUA DBA THE NEW SHERBINO THEATER — $31,500 · Arts & CultureTabor Opera House Preservation Foundation Inc — $23,500 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN FOLK SCHOOL — $23,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE PARADISE THEATER — $21,500 · Arts & CultureDURANGO ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMINERVA WEST — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWEEHAWKEN CREATIVE ARTS — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMCPHERSON COLLEGE — $171,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $16,000 · EducationHopeWest — $37,500 · Public Safety & DisasterGRAND COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE — $34,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLA PLATA COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCHAFFEE COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE SOUTH — $12,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOuray Mountain Rescue Team Inc — $7,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$2,633,150Other$1,337,500Health$443,880Human Services$396,000Arts & Culture$273,633Education$267,000Public Safety & Disaster$111,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLORADO STATE PATROL FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,412,650 over 9y, 15% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE — $171,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $109,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE — $101,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetSALIDA ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND INC — $91,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetSALIDA SENIOR CITIZENS INC DBA SALIDA COMMUNITY CENTER — $82,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $79,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND ENCAMPMENT MUSEUM INC — $75,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetROBERT D SUTHERLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $72,500 over 3y, 26% of budgetNORTH FORK AMBULANCE AUXILIARY — $72,100 over 3y, 47% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER — $59,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $58,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetNeedlerock Family Health Clinic — $52,500 over 5y, 98% of budgetChaffee County Search and Rescue - North — $46,780 over 5y, 12% of budgetMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGUNNISON COUNTY PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $45,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMEEKER LIONS CLUB — $44,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetGRAND MESA ARTS & EVENTS CENTER INC — $43,633 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PERRY MANSFIELD — $41,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PARK MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $39,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetGalloping Goose Historical Society of Dolores Inc — $39,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHopeWest — $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetGRAND COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE — $34,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $32,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRIDGWAY CHAUTAUQUA DBA THE NEW SHERBINO THEATER — $31,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPIONEERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetA LITTLE HELP — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS — $26,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetRIMROCKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTROSE COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH AND NATURE — $25,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTabor Opera House Preservation Foundation Inc — $23,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMini-Blessings — $22,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLA PLATA COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADVILLE TRAIL 100 LEGACY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDURANGO ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Farm to Table Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE FOOTPRINTS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetValley Citizens Foundation for Health Care Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rocky Mountain Health…The Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…Western Colorado Comm…The Summit FoundationMile High United Way …Caring for Colorado F…The Colorado TrustThe Denver FoundationDaniels Fund
El Pomar FoundationCO69.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · The Summit Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · The Denver Foundation · Daniels 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 organization Colorado Grand Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colorado Grand Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Grand 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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