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· Public charity
LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC
To provide our members with safe, reliable electricity at the lowest reasonable cost while being environmentally responsible.
$293k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants
1
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Education$373kPhilanthropy$108kHealth$33kArts & Culture$25kHousing & Shelter$14kEnvironment$13kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$8kOther$161k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
pagosacoreresourceefficiencyenergyhealtheducation
2019
recipientsaccomplishments lineculturerecoveryplaceenvisionsbusinesses
2021
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2022
librarystemdistrict
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$293M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Upper San Juan Library District$25,000
- DURANGO SCHOOL DISTRICT 9R$21,000
- FRIENDS OF THE IGNACIO LIBRARY$5,750
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.
About 67% of LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$442k · 3 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +121% since the first grant, against +92% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
23
Total granted
$442k
$252k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+121%
+92%
Still filing today
100%
74%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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
- LRLPEA Round Up Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $192k · revenue +37% · 100% of their budget
- FLFort Lewis College Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +419%
- CFCommunity Foundation serving Southwest Colorado3× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- PPPagosa Peak Open Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +80%
- LPLA PLATA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +92%
- MSManna Soup Kitchengraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +345%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Colorado West Healthcare System
Improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
Health
2
Housing Resources of Western Colorado
To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.
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3
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado
The foundation's mission is to work hand in hand with our diverse communities to create culturally responsive strategies that build influence, equity and opportunity for all latino coloradans. the foundation's vision is a colorado where…
Arts & Culture
4
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
San Juan County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
6
United Way of Pueblo County
To serve as a trusted community leader by leveraging resources in support of collaborative solutions.
Philanthropy
7
Colorado Gives Foundation
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen.
Philanthropy
8
Colorado Business Development Foundation
Colorado Business Development Foundation develops and funds small business resources
Philanthropy
9
Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado
We make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Health
10
Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities
Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.
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11
Sagrada Botanical Gardens
The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…
Environment
12
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Solutions for the Southwest and the most unlike its peers is The Fort Lewis College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$372,882Other$181,158Philanthropy$107,500Health$33,000Arts & Culture$25,217Housing & Shelter$13,725Environment$12,520
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 LPEA Round Up Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fort Lewis College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado ↗
- Who funds Pagosa Peak Open School ↗
- Who funds LA PLATA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Manna Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAS ALANO CLUB ↗
- Who funds 4Core ↗
- Who funds Justice Ministries of Pagosa ↗
- Who funds Rise Above Violence ↗
- Who funds ARCHULETA COUNTY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FIRST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SW COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SW ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHAPTER 48 ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds Durango Education Center ↗
- Who funds iAM MUSIC Institute ↗
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.
El Pomar FoundationCO25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Southwest Colorado · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Trailhead Institute · The Erteszek Foundation · Durango Area Tourism Office Inc · The Moniker 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 organisation LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LPEA Round Up Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841327921 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LPEA Round Up Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to La Plata Electric Association Inc?
Find your warmest path to La Plata Electric Association Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines