· Private foundation
El Pomar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 93 grants below total $1,922,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,546,032 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,623,332 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 $10k41 grants · $212k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $676k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
- $250k+3 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colorado State Fair Foundation | $250,000 |
| Colorado Springs Sports Corporation | $250,000 |
| Colorado Springs World Arena | $250,000 |
| Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra | $185,000 |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $50,000 |
| Council of State Governments - West | $50,000 |
| American Prairie Foundation | $35,000 |
| A Pregnancy Resource Center of Northeast Colorado | $25,000 |
| Care and Share, Inc. | $25,000 |
| Colorado Children's Campaign, Inc. | $25,000 |
| Activate Work, Inc. | $25,000 |
| Colorado Springs Sports Corporation | $25,000 |
| Friends of the Children - Colorado Springs | $20,000 |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $20,000 |
| Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of El Pomar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
497 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 431 since wound down; 18 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- USUnited States Space Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $6.5M · revenue +452% · 88% of their budget
- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION4× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +94% · 32% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $1.7M · revenue +76%
Funded once
- AFAir Force Academy Foundationone grant, 2022 · $503k
- GGLOBALMINDEDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +154% · 45% of their budget
- EREAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue +28%
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.
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…
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…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
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…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
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.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Western Civilization Foundation. 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 27 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
1032 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1032 of the 1,389 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 United States Space Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Youth Sports Complex Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds Pueblo Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACCESS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBALMINDED ↗
- Who funds Exponential Impact ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUTHENTITY ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MONTE VISTA COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Atlas Preparatory School Inc ↗
- Who funds PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
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: Anschutz Family Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Gives Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 El Pomar 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.
- Generation Teach Inc — 42% of income from government
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.