· Public charity
Elevations Foundation Inc
We bring people and resources together to strengthen our communities.
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.
The 2 grants below total $20,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $150,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $130,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| 3HOPEFUL HEARTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $659k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Elevations Foundation Inc’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.
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.
Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado
Together we create solutions for a better life.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To assist the community foundation of northern colorado
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
To connect people who care with causes that matter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Rise Against Suicide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds 3HOPEFUL HEARTS ↗
- Who funds WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rise Against Suicide ↗
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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Northern Colorado United for Youth · United Way of Larimer County · Anschutz Family 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 Elevations Foundation Inc 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Elevations Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Elevations Foundation Inc 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.