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Colorado Hearing Foundation at a glance

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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.

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$803kEducation$589kHuman Services$110kRecreation & Sports$100kPhilanthropy$50kAnimals$18k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $191k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR HEARING LOSS IN CHILDREN: $15k → 10%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $10k → 10%DEAF PLANET SOUL: $500 → 14%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $10k → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG: $18k → 10%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $10k → 10%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $5k → 10%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $5k → 10%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

WA
IL
OH
PA
NJ
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 15 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+24%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity 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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    4× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +42%
  • MD
    MARION DOWNS CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $89k · revenue +15%
  • GF
    GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS
    6× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • AA
    AMER ACADEMY AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $102k
  • GU
    GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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…

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2
Starkey Hearing Foundation
Health
3
Listen and Talk

Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.

Education
4
Hearing Health Foundation

Hearing health foundation's mission is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research.

Health
5
Association of University Anesthesiologists

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.

Health
6
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
7
American Academy of Audiology Inc

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.

Community Improvement
8
Auditory Implant Initiative

The auditory implant initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to high quality cochlear implant care through aggregate data analytics.

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9
Case Western Reserve University

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…

Education
10
University of Denver

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
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
Center for Hearing and Communication

Provide high-quality, comprehensive services to empower people affected by hearing loss, deafness or listening challenges.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gallaudet University; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE SCHOOL (HEARING-ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE): $363,042 · OtherHOPE SCHOOL (HEARING-ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE)AMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY FDTN: $117,500 · OtherAMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY FDTNMARION DOWNS CENTER - DENVER: $110,000 · OtherMARION DOWNS CENTER - DENVERIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMER ACADEMY AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATION: $101,500 · OtherAMER ACADEMY AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATIONHOPE SCHOOL SPOKANE: $91,170 · OtherHOPE SCHOOL SPOKANEMARION DOWNS CENTER: $89,200 · OtherMARION DOWNS CENTER+12 more: $140,280 · Other+12 moreChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $225,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Co…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATION: $100,500 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF AU…GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $23,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $10,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $55,000 · Human ServicesPARAGON SERVICE DOGS: $17,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesInnovia Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY: $15,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,122,692Health$325,500Education$83,000Human Services$73,000Philanthropy$50,000Community Improvement$15,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $225,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY FOUNDATION: $100,500 over 2y, 41% of budgetMARION DOWNS CENTER: $89,200 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $55,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARAGON SERVICE DOGS: $17,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY: $15,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY: $12,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colorado Hearing Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Hearing Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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