· Public charity
Community Shares of Colorado Inc
We connect coloradans to the charities and causes they care about most.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $986,756 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,483,397 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $496,641 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $580k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUN | $197,197 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROC | $87,513 |
| DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE | $67,707 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO | $63,280 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $57,414 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY | $55,034 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $52,186 |
| HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS | $45,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $28,444 |
| FOOTHILLS ANIMAL SHELTER | $26,997 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO | $20,638 |
| CAT CARE SOCIETY | $20,225 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $18,802 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $17,474 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $17,413 |
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 (FY17–23, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 45 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $986k · revenue +44%- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC7× · 2017–2023 · $808k · revenue +25%
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE7× · 2017–2023 · $617k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- MWMEANSTREET WORSHIP CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $18k
- FFFELINE FIXone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NONEIGHBOR OUTREACH COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
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…
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parents Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of Denver. 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 38 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
118 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. 118 of the 137 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 CARING CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds CAT CARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds W O L F ↗
- Who funds THE DELORES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ECO-CYCLE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FELINE FIX ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Boettcher 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 Shares of Colorado Inc 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.