· Public charity
Delta Montrose Electric Association
We power and unite communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $171,254 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $200,163 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,909 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $57,150 |
| MAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERS | $25,000 |
| DELTA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #50 | $21,750 |
| GRAND MESA NORDIC COUNCIL INC | $20,000 |
| ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO | $18,365 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,366 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,123 |
| NORTH FORK AMBULANCE AUXILLARY | $7,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.
The Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness (FOMELC) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in November 2005. FOMELC is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization. We offer volunteer opportunities for all ages, physical…
Foster a learning environment by igniting imagination and fueling creativity of children and adults alike. With interactive play in a hands-on learning museum, we will inspire childrens intellect, curiosity, and a life-long love of…
To Support, connect, and Inspire community nonprofits.
Promoting the general business and community interests of Conifer, CO
The Grand Foundation is a philanthropic organization serving all of Grand County, Colorado. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in Grand County by proactively addressing current and future needs in the areas of Health &…
Grief support to those who have lost a loved one.
The Colorado Energy Foundation was incorporated in 2019 as a 501(c)(3) supporting organization of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and seeks to amplify existing philanthropic efforts of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and develop…
Gunnison Trails is a non-profit trail advocacy organization established to assist land managers and other organizations in maintaining existing trails, educating users on responsible trail-based recreation, and pursuing opportunities for…
To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Energy Outreach Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Peer Kindness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 Montrose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MASLOW ACADEMY OF APPLIED LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds MAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND MESA NORDIC COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Montrose Veterans Memorial Coalition ↗
- Who funds Peer Kindness Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK AMBULANCE AUXILIARY ↗
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: The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Delta Montrose Electric Association 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.