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Confluence Foundation at a glance

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Confluence Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$66kYouth Development$63kHealth$11kEducation$11kInternational$8kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$6kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
$260
Median grant
4
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INNER CITY HEALTH CENTER$260
COLORADO CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC$260
MOUNTAIN STATES CHILDRENS HOME INC$260
HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO$156
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$104
JEFFCO EATS$104
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FAMILY TREE: $3k → 7%COLORADO CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $260 → 8%HOPE HOUSE COLORADO: $3k → 7%HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $156 → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 71% of Confluence Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 33%.

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Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
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
Nourish Colorado

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…

Health
2
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
3
UpRoot Colorado

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Safehouse Denver Inc

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,…

Human Services
5
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

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…

Health
6
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
7
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

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: -…

Housing & Shelter
8
Hunger Free Colorado

Hunger free colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.

Food & Nutrition
9
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.

Environment
11
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; 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.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 35 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $68,360 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTJefferson County Economic Development Co: $20,000 · OtherJefferson County Economic Development CoADVENT HEALTH ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $10,263 · OtherADVENT HEALTH ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOUNDATIONCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS: $10,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ECONOMIC SOLUTIONSIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+12 more: $12,036 · Other+12 moreGOLDEN CIVIC FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · PhilanthropyGOLDEN CIVIC FOUNDAT…DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,250 · PhilanthropyDOUGLAS COUNTY COMMU…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $5,000 · EducationFood For Thought Denver: $3,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $7,500 · InternationalFAMILY TREE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $3,000 · Human ServicesMountain States Children's Home: $260 · Human ServicesCOLORADO CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $260 · Human Services+2 more: $208 · Human ServicesGOLDEN BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $130 · Food & NutritionINNER CITY HEALTH CENTER: $260 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation: $260 · HealthDenver Pet Partners: $52 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $21 · Health
Other$125,659Philanthropy$34,250Education$8,000International$7,500Human Services$6,728Food & Nutrition$3,130Health$593

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOLDEN CIVIC FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINNER CITY HEALTH CENTER: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $156 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO FOOD AND AGRICULTURE CO: $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $21 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Founda…Mile High United Way …The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Trailhead InstituteAnschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…McNaught G CharNathan B & Florence R…Gates Family Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    8report 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 35 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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