· Public charity
Colorado Rural Health Center
To enhance healthcare services in the state by providing information, education, linkages, tools and energy towards addressing rural health issues.
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.
The 22 grants below total $236,095 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $309,392 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,297 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHTON FIRE RESCUE DISTRICT | $31,413 |
| GRAND COUNTY EMS | $22,638 |
| CANON CITY AREA FIRE PROTECT | $17,904 |
| TELLURIDE FIRE PROTECTION | $16,138 |
| CITY OF PUEBLO | $13,463 |
| HIGHLAND RESCUE TEAM AMBULANC | $9,680 |
| DOVE CREEK AMBULANCE DISTRICT | $9,322 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY HOSPITAL | $7,797 |
| KEEFE MEMORIAL HEALH SERVICE | $7,797 |
| SLV HEALTH CONEJOS COUNTY | $7,797 |
| VALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL | $7,797 |
| FAMILY HEALTH WEST HOSPITAL | $7,797 |
| SLV HEALTH RMC | $7,797 |
| MELISSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $7,797 |
| WRAY COMMUNITY DISTRICT HOSPI | $7,797 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
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
- LHLUTHERAN HOSPITAL ASSOC OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY6× · 2020–2025 · $680k · revenue +31%
- BHBanner Health3× · 2020–2023 · $598k · revenue +45%
- CHCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO2× · 2020–2022 · $376k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- AVARKANSAS VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $77k · revenue +25%
- YVYAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $77k · revenue +35%
- GDGLOBAL DISASTER INNOVATION GROUPone grant, 2022 · $65k
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.
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
The mission of Central Valley Medical Center is to provide sensitive, compassionate health care of the highest quality to our patients, their families, and friends. We do this in a manner that encourages the efficient use of resources…
To help rural providers with collaborative solutions and resources focusing on rural healthcare.
Mission: we live to deliver healthcare our community can trust. vision: to be the premier provider for all healthcare needs. legacy: we strengthen our foundation through empowerment. core values: trust: we create trust through our…
We improve lives. in big ways through learning, healing and discovery. in small, personal ways through human connection. but in all ways, we improve lives.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
As a full service, acute care hospital in Clayton, NM, Union County General Hospital provides quality healthcare services to the residents of Union County and surrounding areas.
The mission of colorado west healthcare system and community hospital is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yampa Valley Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Banner Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 67 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 LUTHERAN HOSPITAL ASSOC OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Banner Health ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Citizens Foundation for Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINIDAD AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Hospital Association · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · San Luis Valley Regional Emergency & Trauma Advisory Council · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Trailhead Institute · The Denver Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation 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 Rural Health Center 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.