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Elevations Foundation Inc

We bring people and resources together to strengthen our communities.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.2MCrime & Legal$649kPhilanthropy$220kHealth$51kHousing & Shelter$35kRecreation & Sports$13kEnvironment$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $220,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $200,000 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT$10,000
MEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE: $649k → 12%3HOPEFUL HEARTS: $10k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Elevations Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Elevations Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

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.

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2
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
3
Colorado Village Collaborative

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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6
Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc

To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.

Philanthropy
7
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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10
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County; 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.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOULDER COUNTY DEPT OF HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES: $774,283 · OtherBOULDER COUNTY DEPT OF HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICESBOULDER COUNTY: $332,056 · OtherBOULDER COUNTYNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $91,122 · OtherNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION+3 more: $42,000 · OtherCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCE: $648,654 · Human ServicesCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $107,975 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $81,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · PhilanthropyBROOMFIELD …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $12,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…+1 more: $6,250 · PhilanthropyBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthMEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM: $10,000 · HealthRise Against Suicide: $6,000 · HealthNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15,000 · Public BenefitWESTMINSTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $10,000 · Environment
Other$1,239,461Human Services$658,654Philanthropy$220,475Health$28,500Housing & Shelter$20,000Public Benefit$15,000Recreation & Sports$12,500Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCE: $648,654 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $107,975 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $91,122 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $81,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget3HOPEFUL HEARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY: $9,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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…Community Foundation …Otter Cares Foundatio…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Northern Colorado Uni…United Way of Larimer…Anschutz Family Found…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elevations Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elevations Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    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.

    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 21 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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