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Colorado Humanities

Develop/sponsor humanities programs

$760k
Granted FY2022
39
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2022.

Arts & Culture$808kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kEducation$109kYouth Development$11kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2022 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $674,864 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $760,114 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,250 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $649k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$681k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUEBLO HERITAGE MUSEUM$48,000
LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$32,000
MUSEUM OF FRIENDS$20,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$20,000
GRAND COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$20,000
HUAJATOLLA HERITAGE FOUNDATION$20,000
HAYDEN HERITAGE CENTER$20,000
CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER$20,000
GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUM & PARK$20,000
BUD WERNER MEMORIAL LIBRARY$18,000
LAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$18,000
MONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$18,000
PHILLIPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$18,000
FORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$18,000
GLENWOOD SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$18,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELBERT COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT: $18k → 6%SUMMIT54: $18k → 6%TESORO FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%GRAND COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IDAHO SPRINGS: $18k → 7%GLENWOOD SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $18k → 8%LAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $18k → 9%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20k → 10%MUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO: $16k → 11%NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: $11k → 11%PHILLIPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $18k → 11%MUSEUM OF THE MOUNTAIN WEST: $18k → 12%FORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $18k → 14%PUEBLO HERITAGE MUSEUM: $48k → 15%CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER: $20k → 15%SAN LUIS VALLEY MUSEUM: $11k → 17%LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $18k → 19%MUSEUM OF FRIENDS: $20k → 19%BENT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 27%PINES & PLAINS LIBRARIES: $15k → 6%BUD WERNER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $18k → 6%OURAY COUNTY RANCH HISTORY MUSEUM: $13k → 7%MESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $14k → 7%GRAND COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $11k → 7%BASALT REGIONAL LIBRARY DISTRICT: $11k → 7%GLENWOOD SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12k → 8%MANITOU SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%BRECKENRIDGE HERITAGE ALLIANCE: $16k → 9%BLACK AMERICAN WEST MUSEUM: $16k → 12%COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT: $18k → 15%HUERFANO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 19%LITERACY OUTREACH: $11k → 8%SUMMIT HISTORIC SOCIETY: $12k → 9%BLACK AMERICAN WEST MUSEUM & HERITAGE CENTER: $11k → 12%CENTER FOR AMERICAN VALUES - MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM: $11k → 15%MONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $18k → 15%HUAJATOLLA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%DENVER MUSEUM OF MINIATURES DOLLS & TOYS: $16k → 7%LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP: $11k → 12%BESSEMER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $16k → 15%GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUM & PARK: $20k → 7%STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO DBA HISTORY COLORADO: $15k → 12%HAYDEN HERITAGE CENTER: $20k → 6%LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $32k → 12%MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS: $16k → 12%MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS: $15k → 12%SU TEATRO: $11k → 12%ART FROM ASHES INC: $11k → 12%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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$255k · 9 repeat orgs$803k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
31

Total granted

$255k
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • GC
    Grand County Historical Association
    2× · 2020–2022 · $31k · revenue +39%
  • MD
    MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS
    2× · 2020–2022 · $31k · revenue +25%
  • TG
    The Glenwood Springs Historical Society Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • SH
    STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO THE COLORADO STATE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • PA
    PINES AND PLAINS LIBRARIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • TF
    TESORO FOUNDATION HOLLY A KINNEY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +11%

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
Steamboat Art Museum

To promote and present the visual arts to the community of Northwest Colorado reflecting and enhancing our culture and heritage.

Arts & Culture
2
Bosque Museum

The bosque museum is dedicated to protect & preserve bosque county's historic & prehistoric resources for the use, education, enjoyment, & economic benefit of the public it serves.

Arts & Culture
3
Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities

Through the operation of museums and support of historic preservation we will attempt to interpret and conserve our historical and cultural heritage. Through the presentation and support of cultural and educational programs we will attempt…

Arts & Culture
4
Cave Creek Museum

To provide a museum open to the public for the purpose of displaying and preserving historical, western and Native American artifacts.

Arts & Culture
5
Rio Blanco County Historical Society Inc

The Rio Blanco County Historical Society, Inc. serves as the steward organization over the White River Museum and its holdings. The White River Museum collects, preserves, interprets, and shares a community-based social history collection…

Arts & Culture
6
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
7
Old Colorado City Historical Society

Historical society & museum

Arts & Culture
8
North Central Nevada Historical Society

Public museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, promotion, and exhibition of the history, pre-history, natural history, and cultural heritage of north central nevada.

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9
Boundary County Historical Society Inc

Museum

Arts & Culture
10
Museum At Dinosaur Junction

The Museum at Dinosaur Junction was founded to preserve, study and celebrate fossil remains of dinosaurs and other life forms in the area of Dinosaur Junction near Wolcott, Colorado. In addition, The Museum at Dinosaur Junction leads the…

Arts & Culture
11
Northeastern Nevada Historical Soci

Northeastern nevada historcial society is dedicated to the preservation of the hertitage, culture, and natural history of northeastern nevada. our ongoing goals are to establish a western art center and nourish the western culture that…

Arts & Culture
12
Mesa Historical Society Inc

Mesa historical society is a public museum dedicated to preserving mesas rich culture and history through collections and exhibits

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Western Colorado Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicano Humanities and Arts Council Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr15%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr15%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
13%
1,878/14,777

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

54 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. 54 of the 70 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF FRIENDS — $41,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FRIENDSLATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER — $32,000 · Arts & CultureGrand County Historical Association — $31,250 · Arts & CultureMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS — $31,000 · Arts & CultureHAYDEN HERITAGE CENTER — $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe Glenwood Springs Historical Society Inc — $29,533 · Arts & CultureBlack American West Museum & Herit — $27,250 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO INC — $26,000 · Arts & CultureTREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION — $22,200 · Arts & Culture+26 more — $340,601 · Arts & Culture+26 moreSOUTHEASTERN COLORADO HERITAGE CENTER — $48,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN COLORADO HERITAGE CENT…HUAJATOLLA HERITAGE FOUNDATIO — $20,000 · OtherHUAJATOLLA HERITAGE FOUNDATIOCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER — $20,000 · OtherCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTUR…GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUMS — $20,000 · OtherGOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUMSPHILLIPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $18,000 · OtherPHILLIPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY …FORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $18,000 · OtherFORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETYELBERT COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT — $18,000 · OtherELBERT COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICTEAST ROUTT LIBRARY DISTRICT — $18,000 · OtherEAST ROUTT LIBRARY DISTRICTSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO THE COLORADO STATE MUSEUM — $15,000 · OtherPINES AND PLAINS LIBRARIES FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherOURAY COUNTY RANCH HISTORY MUSEUM — $12,800 · OtherHUERFANO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $12,600 · OtherSUMMIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,530 · Other+11 more — $87,787 · Other+11 moreSUMMIT54 — $18,000 · EducationROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING FUND — $15,000 · EducationLITERACY OUTREACH — $10,500 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $10,500 · EducationBOOK TRAILS INC — $6,000 · EducationPUEBLO CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT — $6,000 · EducationVail Symposium — $6,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationLAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $18,000 · PhilanthropyART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP — $6,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$610,834Other$334,717Education$78,000Philanthropy$18,000Youth Development$16,500

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 budgetSOUTHEASTERN COLORADO HERITAGE CENTER — $48,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetMUSEUM OF FRIENDS — $41,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetLATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER — $32,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGrand County Historical Association — $31,250 over 2y, 12% of budgetMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS — $31,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHAYDEN HERITAGE CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetThe Glenwood Springs Historical Society Inc — $29,533 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetBlack American West Museum & Herit — $27,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO INC — $26,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION — $22,200 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD — $18,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $18,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IDAHO SPRINGS — $18,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $18,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO — $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUMMIT54 — $18,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLa Plata County Historical Society — $18,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMuseum Of The Mountain West Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY MUSEUM — $17,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDenver Museum of Miniatures Dolls & Toys — $16,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBRECKENRIDGE HISTORY — $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBessemer Historical Society Inc — $16,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTESORO FOUNDATION HOLLY A KINNEY — $15,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMESA VERDE FOUNDATION — $14,043 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBENT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetSUMMIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,530 over 1y, 10% of budgetSU TEATRO INC — $11,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN VALUES — $10,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLITERACY OUTREACH — $10,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM — $10,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED — $10,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMANITOU SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,460 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOuray County Historical Society — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHICANO HUMANITIES AND ARTS COUNCIL INC — $9,600 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE — $9,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPGS COUNCIL OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OAK CREEK & PHIPPSBURG — $6,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP — $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOOK TRAILS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPUEBLO CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVail Symposium — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Gates Family Foundati…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationBonfils-Stanton Found…RedlineBallantine Family FundRobert Hoag Rawlings …Mile High United Way …The Colorado Health F…Bessie Minor Swift Fo…Latino Community Foun…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO61.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Redline · Ballantine Family Fund · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Bessie Minor Swift Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

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 Humanities 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    24report 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

    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.

    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 70 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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