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Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

$66k
Granted FY2021
2
Itemized grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$51k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$25,990
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,990
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Colorado Springs Independence Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$51k100%
FY20172$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Recreation & Sports$35kEducation$26kHealth$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pikes Peak Library District Foundation Inc$25,99012%
El Paso County$25,0001n/a
Colorado Childhood Cancer and Disabilities Camps Inc$10,2001n/a
CHRISTIAN HEALING NETWORK dba Mission Medical Center$10,00012%

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 Heal…El Pomar FoundationPikes Peak Community …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Springs Health FoundationCO19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Springs Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · 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.

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About Colorado Springs Independence Center

How much does Colorado Springs Independence Center give?
Colorado Springs Independence Center reported 2 itemized grants totaling $50,990, out of $65,990 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Colorado Springs Independence Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (49%), Education (37%), Health (14%).
Who are Colorado Springs Independence Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Pikes Peak Library District Foundation Inc ($26k), El Paso County ($25k), Colorado Childhood Cancer and Disabilities Camps Inc ($10k).
Does Colorado Springs Independence Center fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Springs Independence Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Springs Health Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation.
Where is Colorado Springs Independence Center based?
Colorado Springs Independence Center is based in CO.

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 4 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 2021, released 2021. 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 $118k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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