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Douglas County Community Foundation

Douglas County Community Foundation assists locally operating nonprofit organizations with financial grants organizational and operational guidance philanthropic promotion and many other capacities

$278k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$22kArts & Culture$20kFood & Nutrition$12kPhilanthropy$9kPublic Benefit$8kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$5kAnimals$4k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $40,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $278,411 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $238,411 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.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Beyond the Badge$7,500
HRCA Backcountry$7,500
Nourish Meals on Wheels$5,000
Secor$5,000
Adams Camp$5,000
Firefly Autism$5,000
Feel the Beat$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 3%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE DBA HELP & HOPE CENTER: $3k → 3%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
2
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Colorado Health Institute
Health
4
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
6
Castle Rock Pride
Civil Rights
7
Denver Food Rescue

To reduce food waste and increase healthy food access with denver residents.

Food & Nutrition
8
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
9
Disability Services of Colorado

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

Health
10
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

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

Environment
11
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
12
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Castle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force and the most unlike its peers is Highlands Ranch Backcountry Conservation and Education Fund. 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

16 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. 16 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

City of Lone Tree — $15,000 · OtherCity of Lone TreeBEYOND THE BADGE CO — $7,500 · OtherBEYOND THE BADGE CODOUGLAS COUNTY YOUTH EDUCATION AND SAFETY IN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY YOUTH EDUCATION AND SAFETY IN SCHO…COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC — $5,000 · OtherCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS IN…Parker Task Force for Human Services — $1,500 · OtherColorado Agricultural Leadership Foundation Inc — $1,750 · OtherCASTLE ROCK SENIOR CENTER INC — $1,500 · Other+1 more — $130 · OtherCRISIS CENTER — $5,000 · HealthCRISIS CENTERALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISM — $5,000 · HealthALTA VISTA CENTER FOR …AGING RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY — $5,000 · HealthAGING RESOURCES OF DOU…NAMI Arapahoe-Douglas Counties — $1,700 · HealthNAMI Arapahoe-Douglas …SECOR — $6,500 · Food & NutritionSECORNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS — $5,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISH MEALS O…HIGHLANDS RANCH BACKCOUNTRY CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION FUND — $7,500 · PhilanthropyHIGHLANDS R…Douglas County Community Foundation — $1,000 · PhilanthropyDouglas Cou…FEEL THE BEAT CORP — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $3,885 · AnimalsCASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE — $2,500 · Human Services
Other$37,380Health$16,700Food & Nutrition$11,500Philanthropy$8,500Arts & Culture$5,000Animals$3,885Human Services$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOR — $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY YOUTH EDUCATION AND SAFETY IN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCRISIS CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAGING RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFEEL THE BEAT CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $3,885 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Agricultural Leadership Foundation Inc — $1,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNAMI Arapahoe-Douglas Counties — $1,700 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetParker Task Force for Human Services — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASTLE ROCK SENIOR CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDouglas County Community Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …The Denver FoundationWestern Union Foundat…Core Electric Coopera…Libertygives Foundati…Daniels FundLillis FoundationPortercare Adventist …Av Hunter Trust Incor…Anschutz Family Found…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO27.6× affinity12 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 · Western Union Foundation · Core Electric Cooperative · Libertygives Foundation · Daniels Fund · Lillis Foundation · Portercare Adventist Health System · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Anschutz Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher 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 Douglas County Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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