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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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$836k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.9MArts & Culture$1.9MYouth Development$1.3MFood & Nutrition$883kCommunity Improvement$847kRecreation & Sports$796kPhilanthropy$739kEnvironment$736kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 62 grants below total $3,003,157, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,629,692 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $626,535 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $769k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $836k
$18,540
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Eastern Congo Intiative: $10k → 14%PINE RIVER SHARES: $836k → 12%PINON PROJECT: $25k → 15%THE PINON PROJECT: $14k → 15%The Pinon Project: $9k → 15%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $13k → 12%RIVERHOUSE CHILDRENS CENTER: $17k → 12%COMPANEROS: $14k → 12%RIVERHOUSE CHILDRENS CENTER: $11k → 12%RIVERHOUSE CHILDRENS CENTER: $6k → 12%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 74 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
49

Total granted

$13M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

58%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AH
    Animas High School
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +78% · 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 +95%

Funded once

  • SL
    Southwest Land Alliance
    one grant, 2018 · $209k
  • IC
    IGNACIO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $190k
  • AH
    ANIMAS HIGH SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $101k
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.

1
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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4
San Juan Mountains Association

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

Environment
5
Dolores River Boating Advocates

Dolores River Boating Advocates protects and enriches the recreational and ecological values of the Dolores River through advocacy, stewardship and education.

Environment
6
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
7
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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8
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment
9
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
10
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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11
Yampatika

Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.

Environment
12
San Luis Valley Great Outdoors

At slv go! our mission is to connect people to the outdoors by expanding opportunities for trails, parks, and public lands through community-driven initiatives.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Plata Family Centers Coalition; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 142 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
46/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Durango 9-R: $819,452 · OtherDurango 9-RONWARD: $727,949 · OtherONWARD9R SCHOOL DISTRICT: $575,000 · Other9R SCHOOL DISTRICTUNITED WAY OF SW COLORADO: $510,176 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SW COLORADOSAN JUAN MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION: $438,564 · OtherMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $435,125 · OtherDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENT: $411,644 · Other+104 more: $5,057,290 · Other+104 moreAnimas High School: $2,488,500 · EducationAnimas High SchoolDurango Education Foundation: $552,250 · EducationDurango Education Foundat…DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $231,000 · EducationDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION C…RESILIENT COLORADO AKA CULTIVATE RESILIENCE: $200,000 · EducationRESILIENT COLORADO AKA CU…THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $167,850 · Education+3 more: $45,500 · EducationSTILLWATER MUSIC: $371,701 · Arts & CultureSTILLWATE…THE POWERHOUSE: $358,340 · Arts & CultureTHE POWER…DURANGO ARTS CENTER INC: $335,081 · Arts & CultureDURANGO A…i AM Music Inc: $187,120 · Arts & Culturei AM Musi…KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO: $89,233 · Arts & CultureKUTE INC …+3 more: $45,238 · Arts & CulturePine River Shares: $835,931 · Human ServicesBlueprints of Hope aka Cancer Support Community Southwest Color: $55,380 · Human ServicesThe Pinon Project: $47,171 · Human ServicesRIVERHOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $33,900 · Human Services+3 more: $37,200 · Human ServicesLa Plata Youth Services: $481,995 · Crime & Legal4 the Children: $49,244 · Crime & LegalShanta Foundation Inc: $225,250 · Community ImprovementRUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $109,414 · Community ImprovementTRAILS 2000 INC: $91,114 · Recreation & SportsDURANGO DEVO INC: $74,500 · Recreation & SportsVALLECITO NORDIC CLUB INC: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsDURANGO NORDIC SKI CLUB INC: $31,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$8,975,200Education$3,685,100Arts & Culture$1,386,713Human Services$1,009,582Crime & Legal$531,239Community Improvement$334,664Recreation & Sports$251,614

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnimas High School: $2,488,500 over 7y, 40% of budgetPine River Shares: $835,931 over 1y, 92% of budgetDurango Education Foundation: $552,250 over 8y, 36% of budgetLa Plata Youth Services: $481,995 over 5y, 22% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $435,125 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetSTILLWATER MUSIC: $371,701 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE: $358,340 over 8y, 22% of budgetDURANGO ARTS CENTER INC: $335,081 over 8y, 13% of budgetDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $231,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetShanta Foundation Inc: $225,250 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetRESILIENT COLORADO AKA CULTIVATE RESILIENCE: $200,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLocal First Foundation: $191,577 over 3y, 71% of budgeti AM Music Inc: $187,120 over 8y, 13% of budgetDURANGO FOOD BANK: $179,054 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $167,850 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMusic in the Mountains Inc: $155,914 over 8y, 11% of budgetSAN JUAN SYMPHONY: $117,433 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY: $112,069 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDurango Nature Studies: $110,720 over 5y, 61% of budgetRUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $109,414 over 1y, 30% of budgetWomens Resource Center in Durango: $101,340 over 5y, 13% of budgetLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION: $97,844 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetParker's Animal Rescue: $92,718 over 4y, 19% of budgetTRAILS 2000 INC: $91,114 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO: $89,233 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC: $85,616 over 2y, 27% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $79,020 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $78,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDURANGO DEVO INC: $74,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBlueprints of Hope aka Cancer Support Community Southwest Color: $55,380 over 2y, 44% of budgetOAK TREE YOUTH RESOURCES: $55,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,300 over 1y, 1.6% of budget4 the Children: $49,244 over 4y, 10% of budgetMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE: $48,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Pinon Project: $47,171 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $47,129 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRIVERHOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $33,900 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $33,300 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDURANGO PLAYFEST: $33,020 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetDURANGO NORDIC SKI CLUB INC: $31,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE MAKERLAB: $30,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER: $29,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTEAM UP: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $23,060 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSan Juan Citizens Alliance: $21,872 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHEALTHY ARCHULETA INC: $21,325 over 3y, 2.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Ballantine Family FundColorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationThoren Family Charita…Rocky Mountain Health…Westmeath FoundationThe Moniker FoundationTeam UpThe Colorado Health F…The Erteszek Foundati…Anschutz Family Found…Merrion Family Founda…
Ballantine Family FundCO69.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 142 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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