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Community Foundation of Northern Colorado
The COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO serves our community as a catalyst for community projects, a service provider to philanthropists and nonprofit organizations, and a trusted steward of long-term and often complex gift arrangements.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 268 grants below total $16,036,149 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,650,007 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $613,858 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $426k
- $10k–50k134 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k62 grants · $6.2M
- $250k+13 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA PUENTE HOME INC | $1,001,000 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY | $900,945 |
| FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO | $840,000 |
| FORT COLLINS RESCUE MISSION | $683,500 |
| NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $505,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY | $428,737 |
| CSU FOUNDATION | $363,879 |
| CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK | $336,000 |
| NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION | $333,000 |
| THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $298,346 |
| FIRST PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER | $275,000 |
| FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY | $265,260 |
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| RESPITE CARE INC | $235,653 |
| UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY | $234,018 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
306 repeat relationships — 193 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +90%
- HOHOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +34%
- TRTHOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +87% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue +81%
- FFFIRST FRUITS OF ZION INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
- CCCOLORADO COMPUTER MUSEUMgraduated2× · 2023–2024 · $285k · revenue ×13 · 67% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Weld Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Serimus Operating Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
506 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. 506 of the 631 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds SKY CORRAL ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED ↗
- Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Estes Park Learning Place Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds Estes Park Nonprofit Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS OF ZION INC ↗
- Who funds SERIMUS OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds 3HOPEFUL HEARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENS OF SPRING CREEK ↗
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: Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · United Way of Larimer County · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · El Pomar Foundation · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Realities for Children Charities · The Weld Trust · Weld Community Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 Community Foundation of Northern Colorado 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton — 2% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.