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Etchepare Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH'S CHILDRENS HOME | $20,000 |
| CLIMB WYOMING | $15,000 |
| VILLAGE OF MERICI | $15,000 |
| KNOCK KNOCK ANGELS COLORADO | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,667 |
| DENVER KIDS | $10,000 |
| WYOMING HUNGER INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL'S NEWMAN CENTER - FATHER TOM OGG MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT | $10,000 |
| TR 4 HEART AND SOUL | $8,500 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN | $7,500 |
| RED FEATHER LAKES FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT SUPPORTERS | $5,100 |
| TIDEWELL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MT PLEASANT HOME | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF CHEYENNE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- CDCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +49%
- DKDENVER KIDS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $56k · revenue +33%
- T4TR 4 Heart & Soul Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- MAMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER CO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CCCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNEone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -25%
- CCCAMERON COUNTY OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +36%
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.
The Organization provides a full range of high-quality healthcare to children and adolescents in Colorado regardless of insurance status or family's ability to pay. Our services are mainly for the under-served and at-risk youth, including…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.
To provide compassionate, comprehensive, and accessible healthcare for individuals of all ages, fostering a healthier and brighter future for every child and adult in our community. Our vision is rooted in a commitment to providing…
The Joseph Center was created to support families in the intersection of homelessness and parenting. Our mission is to provide hope, establish stability, encourage resourcefulness and confer a sense of belonging to the greater community.
To build brighter futures by investing in resident focused affordable housing and services, empowering individuals and families to thrive.
The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…
To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
To stabilize families living in poverty in the rural colorado counties of cheyenne, elbert, kit carson and lincoln, and to move them out of poverty through education, programs, and collaborations with other agencies.
SWCI provides supports and training for local members of the disability and aging communities to live the lives they want in Southwest Colorado.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Joseph's Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knock Knock Angels Colorado Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TR 4 Heart & Soul Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Elevating Connections ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF MERICI INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens ↗
- Who funds Knock Knock Angels Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISA SWAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF SOUTH SUDAN ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MT PLEASANT HOME ↗
- Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
- Who funds MAGIC CITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Cheyenne Family Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ↗
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 · Trailhead Institute · El Pomar Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Etchepare Family 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.
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.
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