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Colorado Humanities

Develop/sponsor humanities programs

$760k
Granted FY2022
39
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$48k
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, FY2020 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $674,864, the rows itemized in this filing. The $760,114 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
HAYDEN HERITAGE CENTER$20,000
GRAND COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$20,000
MUSEUM OF FRIENDS$20,000
HUAJATOLLA HERITAGE FOUNDATION$20,000
GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUM & PARK$20,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$20,000
CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER$20,000
MUSEUM OF THE MOUNTAIN WEST$18,000
LAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$18,000
SUMMIT54$18,000
COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT$18,000
ELBERT COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT$18,000
MONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$18,000
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.

show:

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

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+67%

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
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

  • 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

  • PA
    PINES AND PLAINS LIBRARIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • SH
    STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO THE COLORADO STATE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • RF
    ROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +105%
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
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
Mesa Historical Society Inc

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

—
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
38/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUMS: $20,000 · OtherGOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUMSHUAJATOLLA HERITAGE FOUNDATIO: $20,000 · OtherHUAJATOLLA HERITAGE FOUNDATIOCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 · OtherCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTUR…ELBERT COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT: $18,000 · OtherELBERT COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICTEAST ROUTT LIBRARY DISTRICT: $18,000 · OtherEAST ROUTT LIBRARY DISTRICTFORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $18,000 · OtherFORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETYPHILLIPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $18,000 · OtherPHILLIPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY …PINES AND PLAINS LIBRARIES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO THE COLORADO STATE MUSEUM: $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 · EducationPUEBLO CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT: $6,000 · EducationVail Symposium: $6,000 · EducationBOOK TRAILS INC: $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 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 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 budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO: $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $18,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetCOMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD: $18,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSUMMIT54: $18,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLa Plata County Historical Society: $18,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IDAHO SPRINGS: $18,000 over 1y, 15% 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 budgetMONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $18,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY MUSEUM: $17,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBRECKENRIDGE HISTORY: $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBessemer Historical Society Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDenver Museum of Miniatures Dolls & Toys: $16,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTESORO FOUNDATION HOLLY A KINNEY: $15,000 over 1y, 9.1% 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 budgetART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED: $10,500 over 1y, 3.5% 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 budgetMANITOU SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,460 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetOuray County Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHICANO HUMANITIES AND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $9,600 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE: $9,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPUEBLO CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP: $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVail Symposium: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OAK CREEK & PHIPPSBURG: $6,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBOOK TRAILS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 Humanities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Humanities. 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%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
    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 70 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 2022, released 2022. 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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