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Colorado Plateau Foundation

To connect the philanthropic community to on-the-ground initiatives by growing a sustainable supply of resources and giving grants that enhance the work of native-led organizations on the plateau

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Environment$715kEducation$365kCommunity Improvement$260kFood & Nutrition$220kYouth Development$170kHuman Services$168kArts & Culture$75kCivil Rights$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $1,007,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,042,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $478k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $530k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION LEGACY$60,000
BLACK MESA TRUST$60,000
HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE$60,000
COVENANT PATHWAYS$60,000
KERES CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER$60,000
GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONM$60,000
ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM$60,000
NDEE BIKIYAA$60,000
HOZHO VOICES OF HEALING CENTER$50,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENE$43,000
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND$42,500
KEYAH ADVANCED RURAL MANUFACTURING$42,000
NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION$25,000
UTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBE$25,000
INSIDE OUT PROJECT$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND: $50k → 18%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $60k → 26%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND: $43k → 18%COVENANT PATHWAYS: $60k → 32%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $60k → 26%COVENANT PATHWAYS: $60k → 32%HOZHO VOICES OF HEALING CENTER: $50k → 32%HOZHO VOICES OF HEALING CENTER: $25k → 32%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 20 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+12%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • HT
    HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +194%
  • CONSERVATION LEGACY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +18%
  • CP
    COVENANT PATHWAYS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • FN
    Fundamental Needs Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +67%
  • IP
    INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -38%
  • CP
    CHINLE PLANTING HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
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
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
3
Land Peace Foundation

The Land Peace Foundation is an Indigenous led educational organization that is dedicated to preserving the Indigenous way of life and cultivating strong Indigenous leadership. We are also deeply committed to stewarding responsible climate…

Arts & Culture
4
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective

The Indigenous Knowledge Collective is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves people in New Mexico and Arizona in a Native lead environment to sustain the revitalization of traditional existence of Native People through Art Lessons,…

—
5
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
6
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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7
The Mountain Institute Inc

Advance the well- being of mountain people and conservation of mountain environments.

—
8
Native American Agriculture Fund
Food & Nutrition
9
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
10
Cihuapactli Collective

The Cihuapactli Collective's purpose is to provide healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, promoting and advocating for health &…

Arts & Culture
11
American Indian Institute

The american indian institute's mission is to perpetuate the ancient wisdom and cultural heritage of north america's native people and to promote a greater understanding of that wisdom amoung all people.

Human Services
12
Living Rivers

Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flower Hill Institute; the most unlike its peers is Aps Foundation 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

25 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. 25 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Black Mesa Trust inc: $120,000 · EnvironmentBlack Mesa Trust incGreenaction for Health and Environmental Justice: $110,000 · EnvironmentGreenaction for Health…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $93,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENT…RESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $60,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FUNDFOUR CORNERS RISING: $25,000 · EnvironmentFOUR CORNERS RISINGHOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $120,000 · Human ServicesHOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULT…COVENANT PATHWAYS: $120,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT PATHWAYSSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $92,500 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUN…HOZHO VOICES OF HEALING CENTER INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHOZHO VOICES OF HEALIN…CONSERVATION LEGACY: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATION LEG…ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentZUNI YOUTH ENRIC…NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL INDIAN …KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $120,000 · EducationKERES CHILDREN'S…COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $120,000 · EducationCOLORADO PLATEAU…Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation: $50,000 · EducationPurposed Focused…ARIZONA ETHNOBOTANICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $85,000 · OtherARIZONA ETHNOBOTANI…PUEBLO OF ACOMA: $50,000 · OtherPUEBLO OF ACOMAUTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBE: $50,000 · OtherUTE MOUNTAIN UTE TR…UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW M…MESA MEDIA INC: $25,000 · OtherMESA MEDIA INCAPACHE LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC: $25,000 · OtherAPACHE LANGUAGE CON…APS Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherAPS Foundation IncFundamental Needs Inc: $50,000 · OtherFundamental Needs I…INSIDE OUT INC: $25,000 · OtherINSIDE OUT INCKEYAH ADVANCED RURAL MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE: $92,000 · Community ImprovementKEYAH ADVA…TOLANI LAKE ENTERPRISES INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTOLANI LAK…UTAH NONPROFITS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementUTAH NONPR…CHINLE PLANTING HOPE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCHINLE PLA…FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$408,000Human Services$407,500Youth Development$290,000Education$290,000Other$360,000Community Improvement$192,000Arts & Culture$100,000

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 budgetHOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $120,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT PATHWAYS: $120,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $120,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBlack Mesa Trust inc: $120,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGreenaction for Health and Environmental Justice: $110,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $93,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $92,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKEYAH ADVANCED RURAL MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE: $92,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetHOZHO VOICES OF HEALING CENTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOLANI LAKE ENTERPRISES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFLOWER HILL INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFundamental Needs Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPurposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUTAH NONPROFITS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHINLE PLANTING HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR CORNERS RISING: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetINSIDE OUT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetAPS Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

First Nations Develop…Santa Fe Natural Toba…Arizona Community Fou…Ndn Collective IncMarshall L and Perrin…New Mexico Community …Wend II IncWK Kellogg FoundationChamiza FoundationAssociation of Tribal…Native American Agric…Con Alma Health Found…
First Nations Development InstituteCO27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · Wend II Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Chamiza Foundation · Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · Native American Agriculture Fund · Con Alma Health Foundation 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 Plateau Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Plateau Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    3report 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 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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