· Public charity
Colorado Springs Sports Corporation
The corporation was formed to help stage the first national sports festival.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $41,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $211,152 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $169,652 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHSA | $14,500 |
| ADRENALINE LACROSSE | $10,000 |
| USA WRESTLING | $10,000 |
| CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN HS | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CHCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +32%
- USUNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING6× · 2018–2024 · $66k · revenue +56%
- EPEl Paso Pride Soccer Association4× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- IAICC AMERICASone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -68%
- CSColorado Springs Youth Sports Complex Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +107%
- USUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museumone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -57%
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.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
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.
Usa cycling is the national governing body for cycling, making it responsible for the conduct and administration of cycling in the usa. the mission of usa cycling is to develop the sport of cycling in the united states at all levels and to…
Appointed as the governing body by the us olympic committee, our mission is to provide leadership and resources for the promotion growth of synchronized swimming and to achieve competitive excellence at all levels and to develop broad…
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
Usa racquetball, recognized by the united states olympic committee as the national governing body for the sport, is committed to our members and the growth of racquetball from recreational play to international competition.
The mission of usa weightlifting shall be to support united states athletes in achieving excellence in olympic and world competition and to support, promote, and educate a diverse and inclusive community of weightlifting and the use of the…
Usa softball, inc. (usas) is the national governing body of softball in the united states. we develop, administer and promote the sport of softball to provide the opportunities for participation and the best possible experience for those…
To foster the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of america's youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age and competition.
Mission statement: colorado soccer association (csa) is a non-profit educational and service organization with the mission to promote, facilitate and nurture the growth of soccer throughout colorado. csa honors the game by providing…
To steward, strengthen, and grow american rowing by championing performance and igniting new passion for the sport. (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usa Basketball and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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 COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WRESTLING ↗
- Who funds ICC AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Youth Sports Complex Inc ↗
- Who funds United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum ↗
- Who funds El Paso Pride Soccer Association ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USA HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MUSTANG ROUNDUP ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUMP ROPE UNION ↗
- Who funds USA DIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VIPER CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ASSOC OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR SPORT ↗
- Who funds USA Basketball ↗
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 Convention and Visitors Bureau · United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee · Children's Hospital Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · 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 Sports Corporation 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.