· Private foundation
Confluence Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $32,500 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| GOLDEN CIVIC FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $10,263 |
| COLORADO BUSINESS HALL OF FAME | $4,000 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LEVI'S LEGACY PARKER CO | $500 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $260 |
| COLORADO CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC | $260 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES CHILDRENS HOME INC | $260 |
| INNER CITY HEALTH CENTER | $260 |
| HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO | $156 |
| JEFFCO EATS | $104 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $104 |
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 71% of Confluence Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 33% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
Nourish colorado is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to strengthening connections between farms and communities so that all coloradans have equitable access to fresh, nutritious foods. we pursue systemic changes through state…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
Hunger free colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Mountain States Children's Home. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 GOLDEN CIVIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jefferson County Economic Development Co ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN BACKPACK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST MOUNTAIN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Denver Pet Partners ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO FOOD AND AGRICULTURE CO ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
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 · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · McNaught G Char · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Confluence Foundation 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.