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Gazette Charities
The GAZETTE CHARITIES conducts charitable activities in the colorado springs, colorado metropolitan area to provide grants and direct/indirect support to social services and other service organizations in the colorado springs area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $93,718 |
| CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK | $93,718 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLOR | $83,677 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILD DEV | $80,330 |
| YMCA OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION | $80,330 |
| LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES | $73,635 |
| SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES | $73,635 |
| RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC | $73,635 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $73,635 |
| TRI-LAKES CARES | $73,635 |
| PIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE C | $66,942 |
| MERCY'S GATE | $60,247 |
| WESTSIDE CARES | $60,247 |
| PARTNERS IN HOUSING | $56,900 |
| MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER | $53,554 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against -97% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
Care and Share Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $944k · revenue +45%- PVPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS9× · 2017–2025 · $885k · revenue +28%
SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- RPREACH PIKES PEAKone grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue -97%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $49k
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.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
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…
To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.
We embrace the power of community to support individuals and families in creating their future. we do this by: simplifying access, celebrating individuality, and bridging communities.
As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.
To empower Coloradans affected by mental health conditions and providing them with skills and tools necessary to achieve their personal wellness goal.
Hilltop community resources is dedicated to building a community where everyone belongs. our tailored programs address the unique needs of individuals and families, from behavioral health support and intimate partner violence services to…
Community health partnership (chp) was founded in 1992 as a collaborative effort focused on improving coordination between local health care providers. over the decades, the organization's work has expanded in response to community needs.…
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
To provide a community where people heal together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Springs Ecumenical Social Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy's Gate ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds TESSA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS ECUMENICAL SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH CENTERS FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds The Home Front Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH PIKES PEAK ↗
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: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Jerome V Bruni Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Marson Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health 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 Gazette Charities 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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