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· 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

$898k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$277kHuman Services$211kHousing & Shelter$49kCommunity Improvement$19kFood & Nutrition$19kYouth Development$19kPublic Benefit$15kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $327,428, the rows itemized in this filing. The $898,270 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $570,842 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.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
$18,710
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $14k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $65k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $22k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $16k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%SAFE HOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: $55k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $35k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $27k → 12%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 5% of Foothills United Way Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Foothills United Way 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$386k · 5 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$386k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+91%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $80k · revenue +51%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $62k · revenue +112%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +91%
  • BV
    BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2017 · $43k
  • GH
    GOLD HILL TOWN MEETING INC
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
3
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
Boulder Carshare

To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.

Environment
5
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
6
Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

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7
Meals On Wheels of Boulder Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
9
Boulder Community Housing Corporation Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Urban Outreach Denver

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.

Human Services
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $80,266 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INCEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $61,800 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOL…EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $21,890 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTYJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $211,571 · EducationI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder …BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $43,424 · OtherBOULDER VALLEY…GOLD HILL TOWN MEETING INC: $18,816 · OtherGOLD HILL TOWN…OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherOUTREACH UNITE…ALL SOULS CATHOLIC PARISH IN ENGLEWOOD: $5,525 · OtherALL SOULS CATH…BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,100 · PhilanthropyBROOMFIEL…THE CLEAR FUND: $10,177 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,083 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $18,729 · Food & NutritionTEENS INC: $18,710 · Youth DevelopmentBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $13,810 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$237,956Education$211,571Other$82,765Philanthropy$55,360Food & Nutrition$18,729Youth Development$18,710Housing & Shelter$13,810

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $211,571 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $80,266 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $61,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,100 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $21,890 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $13,810 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $10,177 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,083 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…The Colorado Health F…The Longmont Communit…Anschutz Family Found…Xcel Energy FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…
Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Foothills United Way Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Foothills United Way 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 17 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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