· Public charity
Foothills United Way Inc
Collaboratively identify community priority needs and desired outcomes, unite community resources in pursuit of agreed upon goals, and take action
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $327,428 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $898,270 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $570,842 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 · FY2018
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF BOULDER COUNTY | $109,234 |
| SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER | $64,595 |
| BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $35,100 |
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION | $34,872 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY | $21,890 |
| TEENS INC | $18,710 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO INC | $14,000 |
| UNITED WAY - MILE HIGH | $10,083 |
| BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $6,800 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE | $6,619 |
| ALL SOULS CATHOLIC PARISH | $5,525 |
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 (FY17–18, $238k) 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 5% of Foothills United Way 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- SCSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $80k · revenue +51%
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $62k · revenue +112%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SPSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +91%
- BVBOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $43k
- GHGOLD HILL TOWN MEETING INCone grant, 2017 · $19k
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.
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…
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The mission of meals on wheels is to provide nutritious meals to residents of the community who need and want their services, regardless of age or income.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
The mission statement of Boulder Community Housing Organization is to provide quality, affordable homes and foster thriving communities. They aim to create a diverse, inclusive, and sustainable Boulder by offering affordable housing…
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
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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 I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
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: Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer 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 Foothills United Way 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.
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