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Easter Seals Colorado
Easterseals colorado is fostering an inclusive colorado by ensuring all people with disabilities, older adults, and caregivers have the programs and support they need to live, learn, and work and play in schools, workplaces and throughout our local communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $304,645 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $397,786 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,141 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIL' FRIENDS LLC | $31,582 |
| SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER | $26,700 |
| FAITH PLACE OUTDOORS | $24,077 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO | $23,704 |
| CITY OF BOULDER | $21,476 |
| NURTURING NEWBORNS LLC | $21,443 |
| RESPITE CARE INC | $20,211 |
| HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $19,673 |
| LARIMER COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING | $18,290 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $15,105 |
| TELLER SENIOR COALTION | $15,000 |
| ALL-STARS CLUB | $15,000 |
| A LITTLE HELP | $14,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT FRIENDS | $13,636 |
| HEARN SENIOR CARE | $9,930 |
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 (FY23–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- SRSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $63k
- RCRESPITE CARE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +71%
- LFLIL' FRIENDS LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $52k
Funded once
- MIMOD INCone grant, 2023 · $27k
- MPMEGAN'S PLACEone grant, 2023 · $24k
- AVARK VALLEY HELPING HANDSone grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue 0% · 82% of their budget
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.
Providing opportunities and environments to build bright futures. Our House provides residential and Day Program Services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The focus is on building independent living skills,…
We embrace the power of community to support individuals and families in creating their future. we do this by: simplifying access, celebrating individuality, and bridging communities.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.
Circles of Caring Adult Day Health is a unique day-use program that provides a safe, caring, and nurturing atmosphere for adults and elders. We provide a wide range of services specialized to assist our participants with their medical,…
Aveyron homes inc assists people with special, individual needs by providing caring homes and or support services.
Open sky community services, inc. provides a wide array of services for adults with developmental and psychiatric disabilities that address their needs for a comfortable and safe home life, meaningful daily occupations, active community…
L'Arche Northern Colorado is a community of people with and without intellectual disabilities who live work and share life together within a culture of welcome, connection and belonging. We welcome by valuing each person and celebrating…
Watkins Vital Care Program is an adult day program for adults with autism and other disabilities that seeks to ensure that each day is filled with joy, purpose, and dignity. Watkins Vital Care Program provides life skills training,…
The mission of K2 Escape, Inc. is to provide a variety of quality programs and services that will assist, educate, empower, and/or employ children and adults with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver and the most unlike its peers is Porchlight Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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
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 RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ACTIV8 SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
- Who funds ARK VALLEY HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds EL GRUPO VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Kids At Heart ↗
- Who funds Teller Senior Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Porchlight Friends ↗
- Who funds Special Kids-Special Families 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Foundation · The Weld Trust · Nextfifty Initiative · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Rose Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Easter Seals 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.