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Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$526k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$412kHealth$411kHuman Services$326kFood & Nutrition$66kEnvironment$53kRecreation & Sports$50kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$1.8M
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas University Endowment Association$150,000
Penrose-St Francis Health Foundation$125,000
Early Connections Learning Centers$50,000
Red Lodge Area Community Foundation$30,000
Broadmoor Community Church$30,000
Trust for Public Land$25,000
Telluride Science and Research Center$25,000
Foundation for Colorado Springs Future$20,000
Colorado Springs Philharmonic$10,000
Indygive$10,000
Colorado Springs Downtown Ventures$10,000
UCCS$7,000
Rocky Mountain Field Institute$5,000
Gazette Charities$5,000
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA: $1k → 12%FII-NATIONAL: $25k → 10%The Adoption Exchange: $25k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $1k → 12%The Adoption Exchange: $25k → 11%Raise the Future: $25k → 12%Early Connections Learning Centers: $50k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $50k → 9%Catamount Institute: $20k → 9%THE CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE: $2k → 9%CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE: $1k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $50k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $50k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $1k → 9%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 edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 36 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
27

Total granted

$4.6M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-9%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +24%
  • PE
    Peak Education
    6× · 2018–2024 · $423k · revenue ×12 · 58% of their budget
  • AP
    Atlas Preparatory School Inc
    2× · 2018–2020 · $125k · revenue +233%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -9%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado - Pike
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • GB
    Green Box Arts
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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

04Your 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 Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…

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2
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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4
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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5
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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6
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
7
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Foundation

To raise funds and acquire assets, both real and personal, that will provide financial assistance to the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra.

Arts & Culture
8
Community Radio for Northern Colorado

Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…

Arts & Culture
9
Colorado Springs Conservatory Foundation

The mission of the colorado springs conservatory is to inspire, motivate, and challenge all students to aspire to their highest potential as artists and as human beings through arts immersion studies and community arts advocacy.

Arts & Culture
10
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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11
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Old Colorado City Partnership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr15%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
12%
1,572/12,719

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 76 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
27/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Fine Arts Center — $450,000 · OtherFine Arts CenterCheyenne Mountain Zoo — $300,000 · OtherCheyenne Mountain ZooColorado Springs Philharmonic — $230,000 · OtherColorado Springs PhilharmonicBROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCH — $140,000 · OtherBROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCHAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $100,000 · OtherSalo Sciences Inc — $100,000 · Other+34 more — $572,120 · Other+34 moreThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $600,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endow…Peak Education — $423,000 · EducationPeak EducationAtlas Preparatory School Inc — $125,000 · EducationAtlas Preparatory School In…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $85,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUN…+4 more — $69,667 · Education+4 moreCOLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS FINE…United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum — $400,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Olympic…PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING O…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $55,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $85,261 · Arts & Culture+7 morePIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $325,000 · PhilanthropyINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak — $41,500 · PhilanthropyRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyGAZETTE CHARITIES — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $410,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthCheyenne Village — $100,000 · Human ServicesRAISE THE FUTURE — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Catamount Institute — $23,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) — $50,000 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc — $16,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,892,120Education$1,302,667Arts & Culture$1,040,261Philanthropy$411,500Health$411,000Human Services$326,000Food & Nutrition$66,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPeak Education — $423,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $410,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum — $400,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCheyenne Village — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) — $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak — $41,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCRETE COUCH — $30,500 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Catamount Institute — $23,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $21,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHey Neighbor — $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE — $19,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCare and Share Inc — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAZETTE CHARITIES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS ON BIKES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition — $12,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Pikes Peak — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRichards Rubbish Roundup — $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetColorado Springs Youth Symphony Association — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Springs Leadership Institute — $1,667 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOLD COLORADO CITY PARTNERSHIP — $1,511 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHORAL SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Joseph Henry Edmo…El Pomar FoundationPikes Peak Community …Colorado Springs Heal…INDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Bee Vradenburg Founda…The John E and Margar…Ent Credit UnionEsther M & Freeman E …G E Johnson FoundationThe Myron Stratton Ho…Pikes Peak United Way
The Joseph Henry Edmondson FoundationCO55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · The John E and Margaret L Lane Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Esther M & Freeman E Everett Charitable · G E Johnson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way

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 Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 90%
  • Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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