· Public charity
Early Milestones Colorado
EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO is a nonprofit organization that advances success for young children across the state by accelerating innovation, use of best practices and systemic change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION | $50,000 |
| IMMUNIZE COLORADO | $50,000 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC | $50,000 |
| GOOD FOOD COLLECTIVE | $50,000 |
| CO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLAB | $49,881 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $49,000 |
| HUNGER FREE COLORADO | $32,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 83% 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.
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.
180 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 178 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JIJOINT INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES2× · 2022–2023 · $493k · revenue +5%
- GWGEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST2× · 2022–2023 · $460k · revenue +14%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER2× · 2022–2023 · $441k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S WORLD SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $146k
- PPPARENT POSSIBLEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +40%
- THThunderridge High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Seeds of Learning is a stand-alone, NAEYC accredited early care and education center, that serves children ages 30 months through age 5. As a community-based facility, Seeds offers parenting classes, educational opportunities for families…
The organization provides childcare, preschool programs, gifted programs, vocational training, and therapy for the developmentally disabled.
To expand and improve the comprehensive system of quality early childhood services for families in boulder county. the organization acts as the countywide convener for strategic planning for early childhood programs and services.
Head start and preschool services.
Early childhood education
Build a comprehensive system of care and service to support the health and education of young children, their families and their care providers.
Our mission is to serve the community by providing the best quality care in a safe environment, whereby each child is enriched with experiences that are conductive to their social-emotional, physical, cultural, and cognitive development.
The Early Childhood Council is a collaborative system that promotes and values high quality early care and education opportunities for children birth through age eight and their families where families are valued and children are healthy…
Early Childhood Collective connects the coalition of early childhood resources that serves growing families in Douglas County. ECCo serves as the fiscal agent and administrative hub for community-based early childhood programs that provide…
The organization's mission is to provide low-cost preschool and daycare services for low-income families in the greeley, colorado, area.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
The goal of all those working under the Family Development Center umbrella is to provide parents with the supports they need to be the best parents they can be.Discovery Learning Center's mission is to provide quality early childhood care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
137 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. 137 of the 212 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JOINT INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHorg Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING CENT ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO KIDS THRIVE ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Summit County Child Care Resource & Referral Agency ↗
- Who funds MESA COLLEGE DAY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY STAR INC ↗
- Who funds LENA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds DENVER EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
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: Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation · Rose 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 Early Milestones Colorado 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.