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Heavens Hope Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$99k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$226kHuman Services$174kHousing & Shelter$145kFood & Nutrition$83kInternational$68kReligion$49kAnimals$12kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various Charitable Aid - Rent$16,039
Various Charitable Aid - Medical$15,680
Various Charitable Aid - Clothing$12,513
Hogar Infantil$10,000
Colorado Horse Rescue$6,900
Clinica Family Health Wellness$6,217
Self Realization Fellowship$5,830
Loveland Food Bank$5,442
Don Chan Temple Orphanage$5,000
Various Charitable Aid - FoodGas$4,163
Samaritans Purse$3,250
Emergency Family Assistance Assoc$2,946
Angevine Middle School$2,200
Various Charitable Aid - Automobile$1,790
Various Charitable Aid - Utilities$810
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Turtle Shelter Project: $7k → 6%Mountain States Childrens Home: $2k → 9%Turtle Shelter Project: $6k → 6%Mwebaza Foundation: $23k → 12%Mwebaza Foundation: $22k → 12%Mwebaza Foundation: $8k → 12%Mwebaza Foundation: $6k → 12%Mwebaza Foundation: $4k → 12%Mwebaza Foundation: $2k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Assoc: $5k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Assoc: $4k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Assoc: $3k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance: $3k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Assoc: $387 → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$632k · 26 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
29

Total granted

$632k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

27%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEmploymentRecreation & SportsAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +26%
  • HI
    HOPES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $46k · revenue +19%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • MC
    MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +125%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $21k
  • HO
    Harvest of Hope
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
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
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
2
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
3
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
4
Hilltop Health Services Corporation

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…

Health
5
Streets Hope

Street's Hope provides direct services to human trafficking survivors in Colorado. Services including housing assisstance, housing support and a range of behavioral health services.

Human Services
6
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
7
Sunshine Home Share Colorado

Sunshine home share colorado ensures quality of life for older adults and strengthens communities through a safe home-sharing model, supportive economic empowerment, and connections to resources and services.

Housing & Shelter
8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
10
Mount St Vincent Home Inc

As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.

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11
Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals
12
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Turtle Shelter Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various Charitable Aid Medical: $118,695 · OtherVarious Charitable Aid MedicalVarious Charitable Aid - Rent: $88,792 · OtherVarious Charitable Aid - RentMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INC: $53,574 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INCSelf Realization Fellowship: $49,235 · OtherSelf Realization FellowshipHogar Infantil: $43,000 · OtherHogar InfantilVarious Charitable Aid - Clothing: $28,795 · OtherAngevine Middle School: $25,988 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,500 · Other+40 more: $181,877 · Other+40 moreMwebaza Foundation Inc: $64,620 · Human ServicesMwebaza Found…EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $14,582 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAM…The Turtle Shelter Project: $12,269 · Human ServicesThe Turtle Sh…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesHOPES INC: $46,218 · Health+2 more: $720 · HealthMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $30,000 · EmploymentCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $11,900 · AnimalsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,250 · ReligionOFF THE ROPES: $650 · Recreation & Sports
Other$610,456Human Services$93,471Health$46,938Employment$30,000Animals$11,900Religion$3,250Recreation & Sports$650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMwebaza Foundation Inc: $64,620 over 5y, 11% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INC: $53,574 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPES INC: $46,218 over 3y, 10% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $14,582 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Turtle Shelter Project: $12,269 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $11,900 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOULDER SENIORS FOUNDATION INC: $4,735 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain States Children's Home: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOFF THE ROPES: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $120 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.

  • Who funds Mwebaza Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPES INC ↗
  • Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Turtle Shelter Project ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds BOULDER SENIORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗

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 FoundationCO18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Heavens Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heavens Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 59 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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