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Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado

To provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$574k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Philanthropy$52MHealth$27MEducation$13MCommunity Improvement$6.8MHousing & Shelter$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$967kPublic Benefit$858kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $4.6M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Project Angel Heart$574,000
Corporation For Supportive Housing$500,000
Colorado Education Initiative$400,000
Clinica Tepeyac$374,000
Colorado Community Health Network Inc$300,000
Colorado Safety Net Collaborative$250,000
Univ Of Colorado Denver$241,189
Denver Health And Hospital Authority$220,021
Playworks$200,000
Cultivando$200,000
Johns Hopkins Univ$173,085
University Of Pennsylvania$167,915
Food Bank Of The Rockies Inc$163,800
Henry Ford Health System$161,087
Warren Village Inc$150,000
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 (FY17–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $400k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS KERN CHAPTER: $150k → 18%Care-a-van Saint Inc: $8k → 11%HOPELIGHT MEDICAL CLINIC: $105k → 12%American Red Cross Kern Chapter: $110k → 18%HOPELIGHT MEDICAL CLINIC: $100k → 12%American National Red Cross: $664k → 14%Interfaith Hospitality Network Of: $80k → 9%Hopelight Medical Clinic: $100k → 12%American National Red Cross: $43k → 14%Collaborative Healing Initiative Within: $24k → 8%Hopelight Medical Clinic: $50k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $90k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $50k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $50k → 12%There With Care: $15k → 12%Via Mobility Services: $15k → 12%Disability Services Inc: $10k → 9%TESSA: $30k → 9%Tri Lakes Cares: $20k → 9%Front Range Area Health Education Center: $48k → 10%Colorado Coalition For The Homeless: $200k → 12%Silver Key: $13k → 9%Silver Key: $10k → 9%Colorado Coalition For The Homeless: $100k → 12%Clayton Early Learning: $9k → 12%Front Range Economic Development Center: $200k → 12%Front Range Economic Development Center: $100k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $25k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $24k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $15k → 12%Traillionaires Foundation: $48k → 12%Ray Of Hope Cancer Foundation: $120k → 12%Ray Of Hope Cancer Foundation: $45k → 12%Ray Of Hope Cancer Foundation: $45k → 12%Ray Of Hope Cancer Foundation: $20k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $150k → 12%Thriving Families: $24k → 12%Violence Free Colorado: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
HI
TX
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 23% of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Coloradolessmore 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 86 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

86 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
78

Total granted

$33M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+21%

Still filing today

70%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL HEART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +42%
  • CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +128%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2020–2024 · $967k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8.0M · revenue -52% · 67% of their budget
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $3.7M · revenue +7%
  • CF
    CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue -50%
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.

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The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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4
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
5
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
6
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
7
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
9
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
10
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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11
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
12
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
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 Delta Eta Boule Foundation. 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

163 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 163 of the 207 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/163
Grantees still filing
100/163
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DENVER FOUNDATION: $48,625,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION+10 more: $5,195,550 · Philanthropy+10 moreSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 · HealthSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITA…NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $3,700,000 · HealthNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR…MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,728,665 · HealthMARSHFIELD CLINIC HE…HAWAII PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $917,708 · HealthCOLO ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE: $840,000 · HealthCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $700,000 · Health+27 more: $3,791,480 · Health+27 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,561,913 · OtherHENRY FORD HEALTH…DHHA Pavilion M Inc: $2,458,564 · OtherDHHA Pavilion M I…COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE: $1,658,912 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY O…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $891,777 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UN…BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $698,500 · OtherTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $787,000 · Other+78 more: $7,507,500 · Other+78 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,114,210 · EducationKILPATRICK FUND FBO JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,492,091 · EducationCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $475,000 · Education+21 more: $1,222,056 · EducationPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $1,824,850 · Community ImprovementENERGIZE COLORADO INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $625,997 · Community ImprovementCULTIVANDO: $550,500 · Community ImprovementFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $390,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CIVIC CANOPY: $300,000 · Community ImprovementRocky Mountain Microfinance: $230,000 · Community ImprovementWHEAT RIDGE 2020 INC: $200,000 · Community Improvement+9 more: $702,926 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $966,720 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $400,000 · Human ServicesHOPELIGHT MEDICAL CLINIC: $355,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $300,000 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $300,000 · Human ServicesRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $230,000 · Human ServicesMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $190,000 · Human ServicesHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $154,583 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC: $150,000 · Human Services+15 more: $467,477 · Human ServicesCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterDEL NORTE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $194,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $112,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$53,820,550Health$19,677,853Other$16,564,166Education$7,303,357Community Improvement$5,824,273Human Services$3,513,780Housing & Shelter$1,536,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $48,625,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $3,700,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,114,210 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $1,824,850 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,728,665 over 7y, 12% of budgetCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $1,675,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC: $1,217,935 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetENERGIZE COLORADO INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $966,720 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $917,708 over 1y, 19% of budgetCOLO ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE: $840,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $787,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $700,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $625,997 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCULTIVANDO: $550,500 over 3y, 65% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP (CHP): $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $475,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $424,068 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $420,166 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $390,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $388,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO: $375,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING: $370,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetHOPELIGHT MEDICAL CLINIC: $355,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $349,619 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $342,450 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $300,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRECOVERYWORKS: $300,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE CIVIC CANOPY: $300,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $280,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO SAFETY NET COLLABORATIVE: $250,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetRocky Mountain Microfinance: $230,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $203,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDEL NORTE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWHEAT RIDGE 2020 INC: $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFEEDING COLORADO: $200,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFriends of the Fort Collins Bicycle Program Inc: $199,997 over 2y, 50% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $194,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $192,000 over 4y, 19% 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.

The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Colorado Gives Founda…Caring for Colorado F…El Pomar FoundationGates Family Foundati…Mile High United Way …Trailhead InstituteDelta Dental Plan of …The Colorado TrustThe Colorado Educatio…
The Colorado Health FoundationCO129.7× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Trailhead Institute · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · The Colorado Trust · The Colorado Education Initiative

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 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
65report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 207 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home