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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.

$394k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$491kHealth$63kHousing & Shelter$37kRecreation & Sports$34kReligion$33k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $323,565, the rows itemized in this filing. The $394,045 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,480 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $301k
$14,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIL FRIENDS$24,041
LARIMER COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING$23,991
TELLER SENIOR COALITION$22,289
NIGHT LIGHTS$20,151
SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO$20,000
RESPITE CARE INC$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$19,550
NURTURING NEWBORNS$15,299
HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES$14,847
KIDS AT HEART$14,500
FAITH PLACE OUTDOORS$14,029
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF ROCKY$13,177
THE BELL POLICY CENTER$12,872
TIMBERLINE ADULT DAY SERVICES$12,760
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $286k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TELLER SENIOR COALITION: $22k → 8%PORCHLIGHT FRIENDS: $14k → 9%TELLER SENIOR COALTION: $15k → 8%NIGHT LIGHTS: $20k → 3%NURTURING NEWBORNS: $15k → 8%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 12%RESPITE CARE INC: $34k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 12%RESPITE CARE INC: $20k → 11%EL GRUPO VIDA INC: $18k → 12%RESPITE CARE INC: $20k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $14k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $14k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $13k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $13k → 12%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$707k · 16 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$707k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • RC
    RESPITE CARE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +71%
  • HH
    HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +28%
  • TS
    Teller Senior Coalition Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MI
    MOD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $27k
  • MP
    MEGAN'S PLACE
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • AV
    ARK VALLEY HELPING HANDS
    one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue 0% · 82% of their budget
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
Our House Inc

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,…

Human Services
2
Out and About Respite Services Inc
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3
Rocky Mountain Human Services

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.

Human Services
4
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Special Abilities of North Texas Inc

To provide the highest quality care, training and support to adults with special needs, giving them opportunities to succeed in life.

Human Services
6
Valley Life for All

Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.

—
7
K2 Escape Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Watkins Vital Care Program

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,…

Human Services
9
Aveyron Homes Inc

Aveyron homes inc assists people with special, individual needs by providing caring homes and or support services.

—
10
Noahs House

The organization provides opportunities for growth, independence, and fulfillment for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by offering a loving, nurturing, and affordable residential community, along with structured…

Housing & Shelter
11
LArche Northern Colorado

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…

Unclassified
12
Our Own Lives

The mission of our own lives is to provide quality support on our terms, for us to be free to be ourselves. we center the disabled community to be heard, and we buildeach other up to change our world. we are all experts in our own lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seniors' Resource Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Bell Policy Center. 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 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. 16 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIL' FRIENDS LLC: $75,633 · OtherLIL' FRIENDS LLCSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER: $63,450 · OtherSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTERFAITH PLACE INC: $48,472 · OtherFAITH PLACE INCCITY OF BOULDER: $47,191 · OtherCITY OF BOULDERVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH: $43,704 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCHNURTURING NEWBORNS LLC: $41,956 · OtherNURTURING NEWBORNS LLCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $33,177 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADOMOD INC: $27,192 · OtherLARIMER COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING: $25,640 · OtherMEGAN'S PLACE: $24,250 · OtherLARIMER COUNTY CONSERVATION CORPS: $23,991 · OtherARK VALLEY HELPING HANDS: $22,750 · Other+7 more: $77,889 · Other+7 moreRESPITE CARE INC: $74,568 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $48,734 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SE…A LITTLE HELP: $39,250 · Human ServicesA LITTLE HELPTeller Senior Coalition Inc: $37,289 · Human ServicesTeller Senior Coalition IncNight Lights Inc: $20,151 · Human ServicesNight Lights IncSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INCEL GRUPO VIDA INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesEL GRUPO VIDA INCNURTURING NEWBORNS: $15,299 · Human ServicesNURTURING NEWBORNSPorchlight Friends: $13,636 · Human ServicesHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $64,520 · HealthSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $12,857 · HealthACTIV8 SPORTS INC: $32,750 · ReligionKids At Heart: $16,800 · Recreation & SportsTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $12,872 · Civil Rights
Other$555,295Human Services$286,427Health$77,377Religion$32,750Recreation & Sports$16,800Civil Rights$12,872

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESPITE CARE INC: $74,568 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $64,520 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $48,734 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA LITTLE HELP: $39,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTeller Senior Coalition Inc: $37,289 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $33,177 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTIV8 SPORTS INC: $32,750 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetARK VALLEY HELPING HANDS: $22,750 over 1y, 82% of budgetNight Lights Inc: $20,151 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetEL GRUPO VIDA INC: $17,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKids At Heart: $16,800 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetNURTURING NEWBORNS: $15,299 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPorchlight Friends: $13,636 over 1y, 14% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $12,857 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
  • Who funds Teller Senior Coalition Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds ACTIV8 SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARK VALLEY HELPING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds Night Lights Inc ↗
  • Who funds SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EL GRUPO VIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds Kids At Heart ↗
  • Who funds NURTURING NEWBORNS ↗
  • Who funds Porchlight Friends ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Special Kids-Special Families Inc ↗

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…Daniels FundMile High United Way …The Denver FoundationThe Weld TrustNextfifty InitiativeEl Pomar FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…Otter Cares Foundatio…Rose Community Founda…The Bank of America C…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Easter Seals Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Easter Seals Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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