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· Public charity
COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION
The corporation was formed to help stage the first national sports festival.
$211k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
2
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Recreation & Sports$260kEducation$127kArts & Culture$45kCommunity Improvement$26kSocial Science$10kPublic Benefit$8kOther$283k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
legacy iceice donati
2019
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2021
member
2022
—
2023
suppocarinternationaldedicatedjump ropeviperowners
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHSA$14,500
- ADRENALINE LACROSSE$10,000
- USA WRESTLING$10,000
- CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN HS$7,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 93% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$395k · 9 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +24% 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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
21
Total granted
$395k
$355k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+56%
+24%
Still filing today
56%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Recreation & SportsEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic BenefitSocial ScienceOther
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 HS ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +41%
- UWUSA WRESTLING6× · 2018–2024 · $66k · revenue +56%
- PSPRIDE SOCCER CLUB INC4× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- IAICC AMERICASone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -68%
- EPEL POMAR YOUTH SPORTS PARKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +107%
- UOUS OLYMPIC 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.
04Your field
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.
1
Usa Triathlon of Colorado
The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.
Recreation & Sports
2
United States Olympic and Paralympic
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes.
Recreation & Sports
3
United States Eventing Association
The education of members, the promotion of the equestrian sport of eventing and safe, standardized eventing competition in the united states of america.
Arts & Culture
4
United States Ski Association
Promotes membership, competition, and education for world-class skiers and snowboarders.
Recreation & Sports
5
Usa Swimming Inc
National governing body for the sport of swimming. we administer competitive swimming in accordance with the ted stevens olympic & amateur sports act.
Recreation & Sports
6
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
Recreation & Sports
7
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
8
Usa Volleyball
The mission of usav is to lead, serve and grow all areas of the sport of volleyball - including beach, indoor, sitting, snow and beach paravolley - achieving excellence while providing a lifetime of opportunities for all to participate in…
Recreation & Sports
9
United States Racquetball
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.
Recreation & Sports
10
United States Soccer Federation
To promote and govern soccer in the united states in order to make it the preeminent sport.
Recreation & Sports
11
United States Anti-Doping Agency
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
Recreation & Sports
12
United States Aquatic Sports I
Usas supports its member ngbs by providing representation and advocacy with the internationalaquatics federations.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usa Basketball and the most unlike its peers is The Colorado College. 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.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
12%
2,817/22,917
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.
05the grantee network
19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$283,110Recreation & Sports$260,441Education$127,000Arts & Culture$45,019Community Improvement$26,000Social Science$10,000Public Benefit$8,000
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 HS ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds USA WRESTLING ↗
- Who funds ICC AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds EL POMAR YOUTH SPORTS PARK ↗
- Who funds US OLYMPIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PRIDE SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds USA CYCLING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIA ↗
- Who funds USA FIGURE SKATING ↗
- Who funds USA HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MUSTANG ROUNDUP ↗
- Who funds USA DIVING INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUMP ROPE ↗
- Who funds ASPEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BROADMOOR WORLD ARENA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VIPER CLUB ↗
- Who funds USA BASKETBALL ↗
- Who funds ACES ↗
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.
Colorado Springs Convention and VisitorsCO20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors · United States Olympic and Paralympic · El Pomar Foundation · Children's Hospital Colorado · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROCKY MOUNTAIN MUSTANG ROUNDUP.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270862227 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ROCKY MOUNTAIN MUSTANG ROUNDUP, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Colorado Springs Sports Corporation?
Find your warmest path to Colorado Springs Sports Corporation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines