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Columbine Community Foundation

The Grand Foundation is a philanthropic organization serving all of Grand County, Colorado.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$637k
Largest
01What it funds
0161% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.0MEducation$945kArts & Culture$525kRecreation & Sports$400kPhilanthropy$369kEnvironment$198kHousing & Shelter$141kPublic Benefit$121kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $637k
$56,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$637,247
Individual grant recipient$164,900
Grants-Health & Human Service$152,517
Grants - Education orgs$140,652
Individual grant recipient$132,462
Individual grant recipient$101,484
Grants - Arts & Culture$87,700
DAF - Town of Fraser$64,800
Individual grant recipient$64,000
Individual grant recipient$59,301
Grand Places 2050$56,724
DAF - Town of Granby$56,000
Grants - Sports & Recreation$55,674
Grants - Environmental orgs$45,015
Donor Advised-Grand Lake$38,820
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 26 repeat orgs$625k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
7

Total granted

$10M
$415k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M
  • DA
    Donor Advised-Health & Human
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.6M
  • GH
    Grants-Health & Human Service
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M

Funded once

  • HH
    Health & Human Service
    one grant, 2017 · $202k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $79k
  • FF
    Fiscal-ROSH Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $58k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,693,006 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDonor Advised-Health & Human: $1,567,072 · OtherDonor Advised-Health & HumanGrants-Health & Human Service: $1,209,590 · OtherGrants-Health & Human ServiceIndividual grant recipient: $687,258 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGrants - Education orgs: $631,211 · OtherGrants - Education orgsIndividual grant recipient: $581,909 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGrants - Arts & Culture: $397,195 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $370,000 · Other+29 more: $3,506,653 · Other+29 more
Other$10,643,894

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Columbine Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Columbine Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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