· Public charity
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $400,414 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $435,414 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 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 $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Broadmoor | $150,000 |
| Downtown Ventures | $100,000 |
| SSA Group LLC | $34,306 |
| Cultural Office Of The Pikes Peak Region | $15,000 |
| SSA Group LLC | $14,325 |
| Pikes Peak Or Bust Rodeo | $12,000 |
| Us Figure Skating | $10,000 |
| Northstar Travel Media LLC | $10,000 |
| Colorado Springs Sports Corporation | $10,000 |
| Pikes Peak International Hill Climb | $10,000 |
| Foundation for Colorado Springs Future | $10,000 |
| Colorado Tour Line LLC | $8,950 |
| Peak Pickleball | $8,333 |
| The Broadmoor | $7,500 |
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +62% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TDThe Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs2× · 2019–2025 · $116k · revenue +41%
- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION7× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +23%
- PPPIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- GRGreat Race via Coker Tire Companyone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SESports Events Media Groupone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CSColorado Springs Community Ventures Incone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -54%
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.
a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
United States Ski Association is the national governing body overseeing the sports of Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding in the United States. See Schedule O for continuation.
The utah sports commission is governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports competitions to be held in the state…
Organize and promote running events in thePikes Peak Region to promote the sport of running and personal fitness and to create venuesfor social and volunteer opportunities.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
To be the essential resource and leading advocate for the sports events and tourism industries.
USA Ultimate serves as the governing body for the sport of Ultimate in the US, making it responsible for enhancing and promoting the sport through character, community, and competition.
Support the well-being, development, and competitive excellence of our athletes as we advance the accessibility and growth of the climbing community nationwide.
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Sports Corporation and the most unlike its peers is National Association of State Aviation Officials 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 44 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 United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum ↗
- Who funds Broadmoor Curling Club ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Educational Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds AMC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK OR BUST RODEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Community Ventures Inc ↗
- Who funds DESTINATIONS & TRAVEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Meetings Industry Council of Colorado ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds MEETING PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL INDIANA CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds National Association of State Aviation Officials Inc ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Pikes Peak Country Attractions Association ↗
- Who funds DESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Pikes Peak Marathon Inc ↗
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 Springs Sports Corporation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Ent Credit Union · El Pomar Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau 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.