· Community foundation
Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $3,003,157 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,629,692 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $626,535 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $769k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $836k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
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 (FY17–24, $954k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- AHAnimas High School7× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +78% · 40% of their budget
- DEDurango Education Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $552k · revenue +57% · 36% of their budget
- LPLa Plata Youth Services5× · 2018–2024 · $482k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- SLSouthwest Land Allianceone grant, 2018 · $209k
- ICIGNACIO COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $190k
- AHANIMAS HIGH SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $101k
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 La Plata Family Centers Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Ruby M Sisson Memorial Library 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 27 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 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 142 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
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 Animas High School ↗
- Who funds Pine River Shares ↗
- Who funds Durango Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds La Plata Youth Services ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE POWERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds DURANGO ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Shanta Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RESILIENT COLORADO AKA CULTIVATE RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds Local First Foundation ↗
- Who funds i AM Music Inc ↗
- Who funds DURANGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Music in the Mountains Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds Durango Nature Studies ↗
- Who funds RUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Womens Resource Center in Durango ↗
- Who funds LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION ↗
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: Ballantine Family Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Westmeath Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · Team Up · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Erteszek Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Merrion Family 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 Serving Southwest 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.
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.