How much did COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST grant in FY2024?

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST reported 62 grants totaling $3,629,692 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST based?

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST is based in CO.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST

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· Community foundation

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST

To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.

$3.6M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$836k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $101k
$10k–50k36 grants · $769k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
$250k+1 grant · $836k

$18,540

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

PINE RIVER SHARES$835,931
LA PLATA YOUTH SERVICES$223,412
UNITED WAY OF SW COLORADO$155,276
GOOD FOOD COLLECTIVE$136,000
MANNA-DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN$122,240
RUBY SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY$109,414
DURANGO SCHOOL DISTRICT 9R$104,000
RESILIENT COLORADO$100,000
LPL FINANCIAL$100,000
DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENT$86,000
DURANGO EDUCATION FOUNDATION$61,000
LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIET$50,300
ANIMAS HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SW$43,080
LA PLATA FAMILY CENTER COALIT$43,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $940k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 77 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+28%

Still filing today

51%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

AH
Animas High School
7× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +76% · 40% of their budget
DE
Durango Education Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $552k · revenue +57% · 36% of their budget
LP
La Plata Youth Services
5× · 2018–2024 · $482k · revenue +81%

Funded once

SL
Southwest Land Alliance
one grant, 2018 · $209k
D9
DURANGO 9R
one grant, 2019 · $200k
D9
Durango 9-R
one grant, 2017 · $200k

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.

San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about, and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment

Womens Resource Center in Durango

Womens Resource Center (WRC) in Durango connects women and girls to the resources and programming that will help them reach their full potential in all states of their life.

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Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities

Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.

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United Way of Pueblo County

To serve as a trusted community leader by leveraging resources in support of collaborative solutions.

Philanthropy

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Four Corners Office for Resource Eff

The Four Corners Office for Resource Efficiency (4CORE) serves Southwest Colorado by promoting resource conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy through education and programs that strengthen the local economy and foster a…

Environment

Mancos United

Connecting the people of the Mancos Valley to activities and resources that support social, emotional, mental and physical wellbeing while listening to those who live and work here to fill in identified needs and gaps.

Community Improvement

Durango Chamber of Commerce

The Durango Chamber of Commerce is a membership based organization that promotes and supports the local business economy

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Colorado West Healthcare System

Improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.

Health

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

The Wild Rockies Field Institute offers academically rigorous, place-based field courses that develop engaged, informed citizens and strong leaders capable of addressing complex social and environmental issues.

Education

Durango Sangha

Rooted in the living transmission of Theravada Buddhism, the purpose of the Durango Dharma Center is personal and collective liberation. We practice together to cultivate awakened minds and compassionate hearts. Building a culture of…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Plata Family Centers Coalition and the most unlike its peers is The Powerhouse. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/74

the rest of the field

11%

73/672

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.

04the grantee network

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/62

Grantees still filing

57/62

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,307,036Education$3,685,100Arts & Culture$1,128,940Human Services$983,382Crime & Legal$531,239Community Improvement$334,664Environment$203,751

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.

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 Gives FoundationCO61.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Westmeath Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · United Way of Southwest Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Erteszek Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Durango Area Tourism Office Inc · The Moniker 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: LOCAL FIRST FOUNDATION.

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 320600640 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 LOCAL FIRST FOUNDATION, 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 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

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How do I get to Community Foundation Serving Southwest?

Find your warmest path to Community Foundation Serving Southwest 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.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation Serving Southwest?

More from the funding graph

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation Serving Southwest?

More from the funding graph