How much does Community Shares of Colorado Inc give?

Community Shares of Colorado Inc reported 42 itemized grants totaling $986,756, out of $1,483,397 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Community Shares of Colorado Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (26%), Animals (16%), Philanthropy (11%).

Who are Community Shares of Colorado Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Caring Connection ($1.1M), Chc Creating Healthier Communities ($1.0M), Mile High United Way Inc ($986k).

Does Community Shares of Colorado Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Shares of Colorado Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.

Where is Community Shares of Colorado Inc based?

Community Shares of Colorado Inc is based in CO.

Community Shares of Colorado Inc

Community Shares of Colorado Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Community Shares of Colorado Inc

We connect coloradans to the charities and causes they care about most.

$1.5M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$197k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$3.2MAnimals$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$748kHousing & Shelter$441kCivil Rights$395kEducation$248kOther$0

02FY2023 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 42 grants below total $986,756, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,483,397 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $496,641 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 · FY2023

Under $10k22 grants · $152k
$10k–50k13 grants · $255k
$50k–250k7 grants · $580k

$9,809

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$12M · 85 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+36%

Still filing today

86%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther

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

MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $986k · revenue +44%
RM
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $808k · revenue +38%
DD
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
7× · 2017–2023 · $617k · revenue +254%

Funded once

MW
MEANSTREET WORSHIP CENTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $18k
FF
FELINE FIX
one grant, 2019 · $10k
MH
MILE HIGH 360graduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +136%

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.

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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Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture

Colorado Press Association

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…

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Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

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,…

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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

Healthier Colorado

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…

Health

Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment

Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

118 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. 118 of the 137 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

109/118

Grantees still filing

92/118

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,697,379Animals$1,875,625Philanthropy$1,308,421Health$1,156,587Arts & Culture$741,838Civil Rights$416,033Housing & Shelter$263,393

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

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO97.5× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home