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Colorado West Healthcare System

The mission of Colorado West Healthcare System and community hospital is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.

$306k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$172k
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, FY2018 to 2020.

Health$337kEducation$85kRecreation & Sports$45kHuman Services$38kYouth Development$20kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $234,806, the rows itemized in this filing. The $306,081 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,275 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $172k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$260M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Quality Health Network$171,606
CMU Foundation$20,700
Grand Junction Soccer Club$15,000
Redlands Middle School$10,000
Strive$10,000
Western Slope Center for Children$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Strive: $10k → 11%Strive: $10k → 11%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$504k · 8 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$504k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+22%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • QH
    QUALITY HEALTH NETWORK
    2× · 2019–2020 · $292k · revenue +4%
  • CM
    COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $70k · revenue +76%
  • GJ
    GRAND JUNCTION SOCCER CLUB
    3× · 2018–2020 · $45k · revenue +308%

Funded once

  • GJ
    GRAND JUNCTION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +118%
  • EM
    EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • CF
    Citizens for School District 51
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

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The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado Health Institute
Health
3
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
4
Colorado Civic Education

Educate the general public about important policy issues.

Civil Rights
5
Colorado Community Health Network Inc

To increase access to high quality health care for people in need in colorado.

Health
6
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
7
Mesa County Business Education Foundation

Education for youth throughout mesa county, co

Education
8
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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9
Community School Collaborative

To provide innovative career exploration and work-based learning opportunities that prepare youth to enter tomorrow's workforce and build fulfilling lives.

Education
10
Western Colorado Area Health Education Center

To provide the overall health of people in 13 counties of western colorado by developing and implementing pipeline activities to help health care providers for the future; improve the quality of and accessibility of education of health…

—
11
Columbine Community Foundation

The Grand Foundation is a philanthropic organization serving all of Grand County, Colorado. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in Grand County by proactively addressing current and future needs in the areas of Health &…

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesa Developmental Services; the most unlike its peers is Quality Health Network. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUALITY HEALTH NETWORK: $291,606 · HealthQUALITY HEALTH NETWORKCommunity Hospital Foundation: $20,000 · HealthCommunity Hospital FoundationHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $15,250 · HealthCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70,025 · EducationCOLORADO MESA U…DISTRICT 51 FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationDISTRICT 51 FOU…Western Slope Center For Children: $22,500 · OtherWestern Sl…MESA COUNTY VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 51: $20,000 · OtherMESA COUNT…Citizens for School District 51: $10,000 · OtherCitizens f…GRAND JUNCTION SOCCER CLUB: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsGRAND JUN…MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesGRAND JUNCTION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · Community ImprovementEUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$326,856Education$75,025Other$52,500Recreation & Sports$45,000Human Services$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUALITY HEALTH NETWORK: $291,606 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70,025 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND JUNCTION SOCCER CLUB: $45,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetWestern Slope Center For Children: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $15,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND JUNCTION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

International Associa…Western Colorado Comm…St Mary's Hospital & …Rocky Mountain Health…The Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…United Way of Mesa Co…Bacon Family Foundati…Mile High United Way …The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
International Association of Lions 3602CO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Association of Lions 3602 · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Mesa County Inc · Bacon Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 West Healthcare System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado West Healthcare System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    7report 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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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