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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.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$726kRecreation & Sports$664kCommunity Improvement$309kHealth$163kPhilanthropy$150kEnvironment$100kReligion$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $400,414, the rows itemized in this filing. The $435,414 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb$10,000
Foundation for Colorado Springs Future$10,000
Us Figure Skating$10,000
Northstar Travel Media LLC$10,000
Colorado Springs Sports Corporation$10,000
Colorado Tour Line LLC$8,950
Peak Pickleball$8,333
The Broadmoor$7,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Sports Events Media Group: $20k → 12%Great Race via Coker Tire Company: $25k → 12%Downtown Ventures: $100k → 9%National Association of State Aviation Officials: $10k → 6%Pikes Peak Community Foundation: $50k → 9%Pikes Peak Community Foundation: $50k → 9%Pikes Peak Community Foundation: $50k → 9%SSA Group LLC: $34k → 9%Pikes Peak Outdoor Recreation Alliance: $25k → 9%Pikes Peak Outdoor Recreation Alliance: $20k → 9%Downtown Partnerships of Colorado Springs: $16k → 9%Northstar Travel Group LLC: $15k → 9%Northstar Travel Group LLC: $15k → 9%Pikes Peak Outdoor Recreation Alliance: $15k → 9%Downtown Ventures: $15k → 9%Pikes Peak Outdoor Recreation Alliance: $15k → 9%Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region: $15k → 9%SSA Group LLC: $14k → 9%Foundation for Colorado Springs Future via Pikes Peak Enterprise Zone: $10k → 9%Foundation for Colorado Springs Future via Pikes Peak Enterprise Zone: $10k → 9%Foundation for Colorado Springs Future: $10k → 9%The Broadmoor: $150k → 9%Pikes Peak Or Bust Rodeo: $12k → 9%Peak Pickleball: $8k → 9%Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation: $12k → 9%Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation: $12k → 9%Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation: $10k → 9%USA Wrestling: $13k → 9%Regents of the University of Colorado (UCCS): $12k → 9%ROCKY MTN ATHLETIC CONF: $10k → 9%Colorado Springs Sports Corp: $33k → 9%City of Colorado Springs: $25k → 9%Colorado Springs Sports Corp: $15k → 9%Colorado Springs Sports Corp: $13k → 9%Colorado Springs Sports Corp: $11k → 9%Pikes Peak International Hill Climb: $10k → 9%Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Museum: $10k → 9%Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Museum: $10k → 9%US Figure Skating: $10k → 9%Pikes Peak International Hill Climb: $10k → 9%Us Figure Skating: $10k → 9%Colorado Springs Sports Corporation: $10k → 9%Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Museum: $10k → 9%US Figure Skating: $10k → 9%Colorado Springs Sports Corp: $10k → 9%Pikes Peak International Hill Climb: $10k → 9%Pikes Peak International Hill Climb: $10k → 9%Colorado Tour Line LLC: $9k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 19 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
19

Total granted

$1.6M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+25%

Still filing today

63%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TD
    The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs
    2× · 2019–2025 · $116k · revenue +57%
  • CS
    COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +23%
  • PP
    PIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +220%

Funded once

  • GR
    Great Race via Coker Tire Company
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SE
    Sports Events Media Group
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CS
    Colorado Springs Community Ventures Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +31%
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
Destination Colorado Meetings

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…

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2
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. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…

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3
Colorado Press Association

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…

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4
United States Ski Association

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
Utah Sports Commission

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…

Community Improvement
6
Pikes Peak Athletic Foundation
Recreation & Sports
7
Pikes Peak Road Runners Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
9
National Association of Sports Commissions

To be the essential resource and leading advocate for the sports events and tourism industries.

Recreation & Sports
10
Ultimate Players Association

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Usa Climbing

Support the well-being, development, and competitive excellence of our athletes as we advance the accessibility and growth of the climbing community nationwide.

Recreation & Sports
12
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Sports Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Colorado Springs Parks Recreation and C: $260,000 · OtherCity of Colorado Springs Parks Recreation a…The Broadmoor Hotel: $162,872 · OtherThe Broadmoor HotelAMC INSTITUTE: $64,745 · OtherAMC INSTITUTESSA Group LLC: $48,631 · OtherSSA Group LLCEl Paso County: $30,000 · OtherNorthstar: $30,000 · OtherUNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Other+21 more: $208,925 · Other+21 moreUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $500,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Olympic and Paralym…Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Educational Museum Inc: $70,000 · Arts & CulturePikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Educat…CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $60,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK…+1 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBroadmoor Curling Club: $157,500 · Recreation & SportsBroadmoor Curli…COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $97,163 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO SPRING…UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING: $19,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES O…ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $13,333 · Recreation & SportsThe Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs: $115,500 · Community ImprovementThe Downtow…PIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE: $85,775 · Community ImprovementPIKES PEAK …Meetings Industry Council of Colorado: $12,000 · Community ImprovementMeetings In…Pikes Peak Country Attractions Association: $7,500 · Community ImprovementPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK…PIKES PEAK OR BUST RODEO FOUNDATION: $46,000 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK…
Other$835,173Arts & Culture$645,500Recreation & Sports$296,996Community Improvement$220,775Philanthropy$196,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $500,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs: $115,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $97,163 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetPIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE: $85,775 over 6y, 21% of budgetPikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Educational Museum Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAMC INSTITUTE: $64,745 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $60,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPIKES PEAK OR BUST RODEO FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDESTINATIONS & TRAVEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetColorado Springs Community Ventures Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMeetings Industry Council of Colorado: $12,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNational Association of State Aviation Officials Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEETING PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL INDIANA CHAPTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPIKES PEAK PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION: $8,333 over 1y, 15% of budgetPikes Peak Country Attractions Association: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Judo Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUS TRAVEL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPikes Peak Marathon Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Springs Spor…The Joseph Henry Edmo…Ent Credit UnionEl Pomar FoundationDusty and Katherine L…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Springs Sports CorporationCO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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