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Colorado Health Benefit Exchange
The mission of connect for health colorado is to increase access, affordability, and choice for individuals and small employers purchasing health insurance in colorado.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AURORA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $214,712 |
| BOULDER COUNTY HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES | $210,240 |
| DOCTORS CARE | $198,482 |
| NORTH COLORADO HEALTH ALLIANCE | $179,000 |
| HEALTH DISTRICT OF NORTHERN LARIMER COUNTY | $165,000 |
| HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $156,000 |
| MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS | $143,000 |
| SERVICIOS DE LA RAZA | $137,000 |
| NORTHWEST COLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC | $126,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK | $109,786 |
| FAMILY AND INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER | $92,000 |
| SAN JUAN BASIN PUBLIC HEALTH | $76,340 |
| CHAFFEE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES | $68,500 |
| GLBT CENTER OF COLORADO | $45,000 |
| SENIOR RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY PUEBLO INC | $27,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- ACAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $811k · revenue +123%
- DCDOCTORS CARE4× · 2017–2020 · $766k · revenue +40%
- LRLA RAZA SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $678k · revenue +465%
Funded once
THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $101k · revenue +29%- ECEagle County Health & Human Servicesone grant, 2017 · $100k
- CHCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -4%
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 mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
To provide primary health care to those in need by offering top quality care through accessibility, leadership, and financial independence.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.
The mission of colorado west healthcare system and community hospital is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
To help rural providers with collaborative solutions and resources focusing on rural healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Family Health Centers and the most unlike its peers is Hilltop Health Services Corporation. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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
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 AURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS CARE ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COLORADO HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VOANS SENIOR COMMUNITY CARE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Colorado Alliance for Health Equity and Practice ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOSPITAL ASSOC OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Center for African American Health ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY PUEBLO CO ↗
- Who funds TRINIDAD AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Pinon Project ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SER ↗
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: The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · The Denver Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Rose Community Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative · Energy Outreach Colorado
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 Health Benefit Exchange 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.