How much does Disabling Barriers give?

Disabling Barriers reported 35 grants totaling $1,768,932 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Disabling Barriers fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Human Services (23%), Education (9%).

Who are Disabling Barriers's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado ($415k), The Arc Pikes Peak Region ($377k), Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($220k).

Does Disabling Barriers fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Disabling Barriers?

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

Where is Disabling Barriers based?

Disabling Barriers is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Public charity

Disabling Barriers

DISABLING BARRIERS serves the physical and mental health of children and young adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities living in southern colorado by providing grants to fill unmet needs.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 35
Grants FY2024: 28
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $162,938
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 28; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $44M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Disabling Barriers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	34	$1.8M	44%
FY2023	28	$1.1M	50%
FY2022	20	$916k	50%
FY2021	14	$386k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$2.0MHuman Services$948kEducation$395kRecreation & Sports$387kArts & Culture$176kHousing & Shelter$100kCommunity Improvement$70kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado	$415,002	3	1%
The Arc Pikes Peak Region	$377,300	4	6%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation	$220,000	3	0%
Chuckies Place	$210,373	3	15%
The Resource Exchange Inc	$170,000	3	0%
Family Voices Colorado Inc	$152,279	2	15%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$141,623	2	n/a
Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc	$141,350	3	1%
In Colorado Initiative for Inclusive Higher Education	$124,446	4	10%
Widefield School District 3	$121,246	2	n/a

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All grantees of Disabling Barriers by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado	$415,002	3	1%
The Arc Pikes Peak Region	$377,300	4	6%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation	$220,000	3	0%
Chuckies Place	$210,373	3	15%
The Resource Exchange Inc	$170,000	3	0%
Family Voices Colorado Inc	$152,279	2	15%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$141,623	2	n/a
Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc	$141,350	3	1%
In Colorado Initiative for Inclusive Higher Education	$124,446	4	10%
Widefield School District 3	$121,246	2	n/a
Special Kids-Special Families Inc	$115,000	4	0%
Disability Services Inc	$115,000	2	1%
Spina Bifida Association of Colorado	$109,400	4	46%
Trailhead Institute	$103,565	2	0%
Griffith Centers	$100,000	1	1%
Hilltop Ranch	$100,000	1	39%
Our House Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Feel the Beat Corp	$100,000	2	13%
Alta Vista Center for Autism	$85,000	2	1%
Peak Parent Center Inc	$80,937	1	5%
Monument Hill Service Club	$76,187	1	32%
The Arc of Southwest Colorado Inc	$75,227	4	8%
Colorado Springs School District 11	$70,367	1	n/a
Trinity Lutheran Church	$65,300	1	n/a
Center for Independence Inc	$65,000	1	3%
Lockwood Foundation	$58,500	3	18%
Need Project Inc	$52,650	3	n/a
Special Olympics Colorado	$50,000	1	1%
Colorado Discover Ability	$47,006	2	8%
Ainsley's Angels of America	$43,675	2	2%
Disabled Sports USA - Adaptive Sports Association Inc	$40,000	2	3%
Goodwill of Colorado	$37,987	2	0%
Six Points Evaluation and Training Inc	$36,960	1	3%
Community Connections Inc	$36,080	1	0%
Harmony Acres Equestrian Center	$35,320	2	2%
Colorado Springs Independence Center	$35,000	2	0%
Colo Spgs Therapeutic Riding Center	$30,250	1	7%
Tall Tales Ranch	$25,000	1	1%
Mesa Developmental Services	$25,000	1	0%
Fishing Has No Boundaries Inc	$25,000	2	6%
Friends of Club 21	$21,000	1	5%
STOMP OUT THE SILENCE OF AUTISM & DISABILITIES INC AKA Help Autism Center	$20,000	1	n/a
Luke5adventures	$18,720	1	4%
Community Options Inc	$16,900	1	0%
Easter Seals Colorado	$12,900	1	0%
Ascendigo Autism Services Inc	$12,000	1	0%
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp	$10,000	1	2%
Brain Injury Association of Colorado	$10,000	1	0%
Community Connections Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Community Partnership for Child Development	$8,013	1	0%
Cheyenne Village	$7,862	1	0%
Center for Disabilities	$7,080	1	0%
A Safe Place in Pagosainc	$5,660	1	1%

Disabling Barriers supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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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 FoundationCO39.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Daniels Fund · Pikes Peak United Way · Developmental Pathways 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.

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About Disabling Barriers

How much does Disabling Barriers give?: Disabling Barriers reported 35 grants totaling $1,768,932 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Disabling Barriers fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Human Services (23%), Education (9%).
Who are Disabling Barriers's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado ($415k), The Arc Pikes Peak Region ($377k), Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($220k).
Does Disabling Barriers fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Disabling Barriers?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is Disabling Barriers based?: Disabling Barriers is based in CO.