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Colorado Hearing Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $191k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARION DOWNS CENTER - DENVER | $100,000 |
| HOPE SCHOOL SPOKANE | $91,170 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR HEARING LOSS IN CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY | $11,500 |
| COLORADO ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY | $5,500 |
| HANDS & VOICES OF SPOKANE | $2,500 |
| BELIZE AUDIOLOGY MISSION PROJECT | $1,180 |
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 (FY18–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation4× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +42%
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $101k · revenue +1% · 41% of their budget
- MDMARION DOWNS CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $89k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $110k
- AAAMER ACADEMY AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $102k
- GUGALLAUDET UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 professional, scientific, and credentialing association for clinical and research based audiologists and speech-language pathologists. empowering and supporting speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and…
Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.
Hearing health foundation's mission is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research.
The mission of the aua is to promote excellence in academic anesthesiology through mentorship; promotion of diversity and inclusivity; and professional growth throughout the careers of educators, academic leaders, and researchers.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
The american academy of audiology promotes quality hearing and balance care by advancing the profession of audiology through leadership, advocacy, education, public awareness, and support of research.
The auditory implant initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to high quality cochlear implant care through aggregate data analytics.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Provide high-quality, comprehensive services to empower people affected by hearing loss, deafness or listening challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gallaudet University and the most unlike its peers is Deaf Planet Soul. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 31 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 Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARION DOWNS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARAGON SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEAF PLANET SOUL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Hearing Foundation 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.
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