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Illuminate Colorado

Illuminate Colorado strengthens families, organizations, and communities to prevent child maltreatment.

$545k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$325k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,378
Largest grant, FY2024
$265,575
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$513kCrime & Legal$33k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center Inc$325,878214%
Community College of Aurora$68,6251n/a
The Pinon Project$49,86321%
Family Visitor Program of Garfield County Inc$26,99021%
Prowers County Public Health & Environment$23,4252n/a
Center for Family Outreach Inc$20,77521%
Summit County Resource Center Dba Family & Intercultural Resource Center$18,44710%
Second Chance Center Inc$6,04110%
Compound for Compassion$5,7311n/a

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.

Caring for Colorado FoundationCO17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Caring for Colorado Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Trailhead Institute · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · 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.

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How do I get to Illuminate Colorado?

Find your warmest path to Illuminate Colorado 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.

About Illuminate Colorado

How much does Illuminate Colorado give?
Illuminate Colorado reported 5 itemized grants totaling $325,340, out of $545,463 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Illuminate Colorado fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (94%), Crime & Legal (6%).
Who are Illuminate Colorado's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center Inc ($326k), Community College of Aurora ($69k), The Pinon Project ($50k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Illuminate Colorado?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Caring for Colorado Foundation, Mile High United Way Inc, The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc.
Where is Illuminate Colorado based?
Illuminate Colorado is based in CO.

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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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