· Public charity
La Plata Electric Association Inc
To provide our members with safe, reliable electricity at the lowest reasonable cost while being environmentally responsible.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $51,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $293,148 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $241,398 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Upper San Juan Library District | $25,000 |
| DURANGO SCHOOL DISTRICT 9R | $21,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IGNACIO LIBRARY | $5,750 |
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 (FY18–18, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 78% 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 25% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…
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…
Peak health alliance is organized for the purpose of arranging for more cost-effective health insurance and health insurance administrative services for employers with a physical presence in rural colorado and their employees and…
Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The homesfund seeks to lessen the burdens of government in la plata county, colorado by supporting the creation and provision of affordable housing to lower income households in la plata and surrounding communities.
The Alliances mission is to create a vibrant and resilient economy through the recruitment, retainment, and growth of business to preserve our quality of life. This mission is achieved by workforce development, enabling business capacity,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durango Adult Education Center and the most unlike its peers is Disabled American Veterans 48 Silver San Juan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 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 LA PLATA ELECTRIC ROUND UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 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 - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ANIMAS ALANO CLUB ↗
- Who funds Four Corners Office for Resource Eff ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE MINISTRIES OF PAGOSA INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHULETA COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHULETA COUNTY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Local First Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds TEAM UP ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans 48 Silver San Juan ↗
- Who funds Southwest Center for Independence Inc ↗
- Who funds DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds i AM Music Inc ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · Ballantine Family Fund · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Team Up · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · The Moniker Foundation · Westmeath Foundation · The Erteszek Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 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.
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.