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Colorado Health Benefit Exchange at a glance

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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$215k
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 2020.

Health$5.3MHuman Services$2.3MHousing & Shelter$713kCommunity Improvement$101k
02FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.9M
$126,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY AND INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $92k → 9%The Pinon Project: $32k → 15%FAMILY AND INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $86k → 9%The Pinon Project: $28k → 15%Family and Intercultural Resource Center: $74k → 9%Family and Intercultural: $52k → 9%Denver Indian Health & Family Services: $15k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 25 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
4

Total granted

$8.2M
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+29%

Still filing today

72%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AC
    AURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $811k · revenue +123%
  • DC
    DOCTORS CARE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $766k · revenue +40%
  • LR
    LA RAZA SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $678k · revenue +465%

Funded once

  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $101k · revenue +29%
  • EC
    Eagle County Health & Human Services
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • CH
    CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -4%
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
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
2
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

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.

Health
3
Colorado Health Institute
Health
4
Pueblo Community Health Center Inc

To provide primary health care to those in need by offering top quality care through accessibility, leadership, and financial independence.

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5
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
6
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
7
Colorado West Healthcare System

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.

Health
8
Summitstone Health Partners

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…

Health
9
Colorado Health Network Inc
Health
10
Clinica Colorado

To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.

Health
11
Vail Health Services

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.

Health
12
Western Colorado Healthcare Alliance

To help rural providers with collaborative solutions and resources focusing on rural healthcare.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Family Health Centers; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
21/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $811,077 · HealthAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INCDOCTORS CARE: $766,014 · HealthDOCTORS CARENORTH COLORADO HEALTH ALLIANCE: $619,898 · HealthNORTH COLORADO HEALTH ALLIANCEHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $598,721 · HealthHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATIONTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $386,508 · HealthTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORKMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $385,515 · HealthMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERSNorthwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc: $252,350 · HealthNorthwest Colorado Community Health Partnership IncNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $226,575 · Health+5 more: $369,613 · Health+5 moreBOULDER COUNTY: $713,016 · OtherBOULDER COUNTYLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $677,692 · OtherLA RAZA SERVICES INCHEALTH SERVICES DISTRICT OF NORTHERN LARIMER COUNTY: $628,758 · OtherHEALTH SERVICES DISTRICT OF NORTHERN LARIMER C…San Juan Basin Public Health: $323,745 · OtherSan Juan Basin Public HealthVOANS SENIOR COMMUNITY CARE OF COLORADO INC: $258,824 · OtherVOANS SENIOR COMMUNITY CARE OF COLORADO INCGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $195,820 · OtherGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CEN…Chaffee County Health and Human Services: $151,575 · OtherCHAFFEE COUNTY: $137,174 · Other+4 more: $368,249 · Other+4 moreSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $304,976 · Human ServicesThe Pinon Project: $59,122 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SER: $15,436 · Human ServicesCenter for African American Health: $110,777 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $101,448 · Community Improvement
Health$4,416,271Other$3,454,853Human Services$379,534Community Improvement$212,225

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $811,077 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDOCTORS CARE: $766,014 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $677,692 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetNORTH COLORADO HEALTH ALLIANCE: $619,898 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $598,721 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $386,508 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $385,515 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $304,976 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetVOANS SENIOR COMMUNITY CARE OF COLORADO INC: $258,824 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc: $252,350 over 2y, 11% of budgetNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $226,575 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $195,820 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetColorado Alliance for Health Equity and Practice: $133,027 over 2y, 17% of budgetLUTHERAN HOSPITAL ASSOC OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY: $111,987 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $110,777 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $101,448 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY PUEBLO CO: $95,558 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTRINIDAD AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $81,349 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pinon Project: $59,122 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $25,487 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $17,763 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SER: $15,436 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The Colorado Health F…Caring for Colorado F…Mile High United Way …Caring for Colorado C…The Denver FoundationDelta Dental Plan of …El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Colorado TrustRose Community Founda…Nextfifty InitiativeEnergy Outreach Color…
The Colorado Health FoundationCO42× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Health Benefit Exchange funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Health Benefit Exchange. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    8report 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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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