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Creative Providers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $132k
- $250k+1 grant · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO SPRINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $271,822 |
| RICHMOND TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $45,000 |
| FIRST TEE - SOUTHERN COLORADO | $34,500 |
| NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC | $32,500 |
| GRACE THERAPUETIC RIDING | $10,000 |
| CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER | $10,000 |
| JOY TO THE WORLD | $9,000 |
| PARENTS CHALLENGE | $8,000 |
| MIDLAND DAYS AT DIVIDE INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REFUGEES | $5,000 |
| PELLA OPERA HOUSE | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $4,000 |
| TELLER SENIOR COALITION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- CSColorado Springs Christian Schools9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +25%
- LSLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +51%
- PCPARENTS CHALLENGE7× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +746%
Funded once
- PHPETER H AND E LUCILLE GAASS KUYPER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -28%
- GHGOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -84%
- UPUkraine Power Incone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
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.
Serving god by providing christ-centered higher education.
The denver rescue mission is changing lives in the name of christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
We are leading a healthcare transformation by engaging with our communities and offering innovative, meangingful care for those living with illness and loss.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
Together we create solutions for a better life.
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
With the help of volunteers and community partners, we improve lives by feeding greater vail's hungry and by assisting with basic needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Christian Schools and the most unlike its peers is Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation. 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 29 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 66 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 Colorado Springs Christian Schools ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds PARENTS CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Joy To The World Foundation ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Midland Days At Divide Inc ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PETER H AND E LUCILLE GAASS KUYPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds Ukraine Power Inc ↗
- Who funds PELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bastyr University ↗
- Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Teller Senior Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF PELLA ↗
- Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDREN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HELP THE NEEDY DBA HTN - HOPE LIVES HERE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Vanden Bosch Foundation · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Colorado Gives 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 Creative Providers 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.
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