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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 FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$163k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $456k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NURSING AND THERAPY SERVICES OF COL$162,938
THE ARC PIKES PEAK REGION$140,400
WIDEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 3$111,246
GRIFFITHS CENTER PASA$100,000
OUR HOUSE$100,000
FAMILY VOICES COLORADO$91,639
PEAK PARENT CENTER$80,937
KIWANIS MONUMENT CLUB$76,187
THE RESOURCE EXCHANGE$75,000
COLORADO SPRINGS DISTRICT11$70,367
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC$65,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER$61,000
DISABILITY SERVICES INC ENVIDA$50,000
CHUCKIE'S PLACE-REIGNING HOPE$50,000
FEEL THE BEAT CORP$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $892k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PEAK PARENT CENTER: $81k → 9%SIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING: $37k → 10%A SAFE PLACE IN PAGOSA INC: $6k → 10%MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES DBA STR: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $17k → 12%Ainsleys Angels America - Colorado Springs Ambassadorship: $30k → 10%CENTER TOWARDS SELF RELIANCE: $7k → 15%Ainsleys Angels America - Colorado Springs Ambassadorship: $14k → 10%The Independence Center: $25k → 9%The Independence Center: $10k → 9%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $65k → 11%Community Connections Inc: $10k → 12%FAMILY VOICES COLORADO: $92k → 12%Family Voices of Colorado: $61k → 12%FRIENDS OF CLUB 21: $21k → 9%THE RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $75k → 9%The Resource Exchange: $50k → 9%The Resource Exchange: $45k → 9%Disability Services Inc: $65k → 9%DISABILITY SERVICES INC ENVIDA: $50k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $8k → 9%Hilltop Ranch: $100k → 9%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 26 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$3.2M
$383k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $638k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado
    3× · 2022–2024 · $415k · revenue +83%
  • TA
    THE ARC PIKES PEAK REGION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $377k · revenue +30%
  • CP
    CHUCKIES PLACE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • HR
    Hilltop Ranch
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +21% · 39% of their budget
  • TL
    TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +33%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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
Arc of West Central Colorado

The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…

Human Services
2
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition

To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.

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3
Ability Connection Colorado Inc

The organization was incorporated in 1952 to provide Educational, Social and Therapeutic programs and related activities for persons with Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities, as well as research aimed at preventing Cerebral Palsy.

Health
4
Connections for Independent Living

To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.

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5
The Arc of Colorado

The arc of colorado provides individual and systems change advocacy for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) residing in colorado and their families.

Human Services
6
Disability Services of Colorado

Provide assistance to children and adults with disabilities or special needs and their families.

Health
7
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health
8
Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center

To change the lives of people with disabilities by promoting their physical, psychological and social well-being through equine-assisted activities.

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9
Southwest Center for Independence Inc

SWCI provides supports and training for local members of the disability and aging communities to live the lives they want in Southwest Colorado.

Housing & Shelter
10
Adeo Colorado

Adeo provides support for all major life activities for adults livingwith the residual impact of a brain injury by providing a place to callhome and services that promote physical, behavioral and emotional wellness,opportunities for…

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11
Autism Society of Colorado

The autism society of colorado's mission is to create connections, empowering everyone in the autism community with the resource they need, when they need them. asc's vision is to create a world where everyone in the autism community is…

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12
Aspire Inc

We empower adults with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives. We are committed to creating a community where all people are valued and accepted.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Club 21. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 53 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
36/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado: $415,002 · HealthNursing and Therapy Services of ColoradoChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $220,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado FoundationCHUCKIES PLACE: $210,373 · HealthCHUCKIES PLACESpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $115,000 · HealthSpecial Kids-Special Families IncSpina Bifida Association of Colorado: $109,400 · HealthSpina Bifida Association of ColoradoTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $103,565 · HealthTRAILHEAD INSTITUTEGRIFFITH CENTERS: $100,000 · HealthGRIFFITH CENTERSALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISM: $85,000 · HealthALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISMTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC: $75,227 · Health+8 more: $156,230 · Health+8 moreTHE ARC PIKES PEAK REGION: $377,300 · OtherTHE ARC PIKES PEAK REGIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $141,623 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF C…Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $141,350 · OtherAdaptive Sports Center of Cres…WIDEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 3: $121,246 · OtherWIDEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 3OUR HOUSE INC: $100,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCCOLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11: $70,367 · OtherCOLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRI…TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $65,300 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHNEED PROJECT INC: $52,650 · OtherDISABLED SPORTS USA - ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Other+1 more: $25,000 · OtherTHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE IN…FAMILY VOICES COLORADO INC: $152,279 · Human ServicesFAMILY VOICES COLORADO I…DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY SERVICES INCHilltop Ranch: $100,000 · Human ServicesHilltop RanchPEAK PARENT CENTER INC: $80,937 · Human ServicesPEAK PARENT CENTER INCCenter for Independence Inc: $65,000 · Human ServicesCenter for Independence …AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA: $43,675 · Human ServicesSIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING INC: $36,960 · Human ServicesColorado Springs Independence Center: $35,000 · Human Services+7 more: $93,502 · Human Services+7 moreMonument Hill Service Club: $76,187 · PhilanthropyLOCKWOOD FOUNDATION: $58,500 · PhilanthropyHARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35,320 · PhilanthropyIN COLORADO INITIATIVE FOR INCLUSIVE HIGHER EDUCATION: $124,446 · EducationCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $8,013 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY: $47,006 · Recreation & SportsLUKE5ADVENTURES: $18,720 · Recreation & SportsFEEL THE BEAT CORP: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGoodwill of Colorado: $37,987 · Employment
Health$1,589,797Other$1,134,836Human Services$892,353Philanthropy$170,007Education$132,459Recreation & Sports$115,726Arts & Culture$100,000Employment$37,987

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNursing and Therapy Services of Colorado: $415,002 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ARC PIKES PEAK REGION: $377,300 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHUCKIES PLACE: $210,373 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $170,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY VOICES COLORADO INC: $152,279 over 2y, 15% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $141,350 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetIN COLORADO INITIATIVE FOR INCLUSIVE HIGHER EDUCATION: $124,446 over 4y, 10% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDISABILITY SERVICES INC: $115,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSpina Bifida Association of Colorado: $109,400 over 4y, 46% of budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $103,565 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRIFFITH CENTERS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHilltop Ranch: $100,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFEEL THE BEAT CORP: $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISM: $85,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPEAK PARENT CENTER INC: $80,937 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMonument Hill Service Club: $76,187 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC: $75,227 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetCenter for Independence Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLOCKWOOD FOUNDATION: $58,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY: $47,006 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetAINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA: $43,675 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDISABLED SPORTS USA - ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGoodwill of Colorado: $37,987 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING INC: $36,960 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $36,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35,320 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetColorado Springs Independence Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLO SPGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $30,250 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTALL TALES RANCH: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHING HAS NO BOUNDARIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CLUB 21: $21,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLUKE5ADVENTURES: $18,720 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCommunity Options Inc: $16,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS COLORADO: $12,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA SHARED VISION PARTNERS IN PEDIATRIC BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMP: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Connections Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $8,013 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCheyenne Village: $7,862 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Disabilities: $7,080 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA SAFE PLACE IN PAGOSAINC: $5,660 over 1y, 0.9% 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…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationPikes Peak Community …Colorado Springs Heal…The Colorado Health F…The Myron Stratton Ho…Rocky Mountain Health…The Joseph Henry Edmo…Daniels FundPikes Peak United WayDevelopmental Pathway…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Disabling Barriers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Disabling Barriers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Community Options Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report 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.
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How do I get to Disabling Barriers?

Find your warmest path to Disabling Barriers through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 53 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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