· Private foundation
Lake Fork Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HINSDALE COUNTY | $104,402 |
| TOWN OF LAKE CITY CO | $11,390 |
| HINSDALE COUNTY EMS | $10,999 |
| HINSDALE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,190 |
| LAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL | $7,090 |
| SILVER THREAD PUBLIC HEALTH | $6,770 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,810 |
| HINSDALE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE | $5,550 |
| LAKE CITY FIRE DISTRICT | $4,995 |
| FRIENDS OF JOHN WAGNER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,470 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $4,145 |
| LCMC ENDOWMENT FUND | $3,600 |
| HINSDALE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,350 |
| LAKE FORK VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $2,975 |
| LAKE CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of your 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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LELCMC Endowment Fund Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +356%
- HCHINSDALE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +238%
- LCLAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +138%
Funded once
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue +113%- LFLAKE FORK HEALTH SERVICE DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $3k
- HCHINSDALE COUNTY CORONERS OFFICEone grant, 2017 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 preservation of open space in colorado by supporting the operations of colorado open lands. the organization holds stewardship funds for the monitoring and enforcement of conservation easements held by colorado open lands.
Support the Cultural Arts in Lone Tree, Colorado and surrounding areas.
Dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and stewardship, in perpetuity, of the open spaces and natural and scenic resources of the mountain and foothills region of the Clear Creek area.
The Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness (FOMELC) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in November 2005. FOMELC is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization. We offer volunteer opportunities for all ages, physical…
Support 503(c) for local government entity
Arts,culture & humanities philanthropy,voluntarism,& grantmaking public,society benefit
Support the ignacio community library
To support the Lake county Library through book,equipment purchases and building maintenance.
Preservation of historical buildings and extension of Salida Trail System in co-operation with the City of Salida, Chaffee County Board of Commissioners and CDOT.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Fork Valley Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is San Juan Solstice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 69 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 LCMC Endowment Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds LAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JOHN WAGNER PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FORK VALLEY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN SOLSTICE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: El Pomar 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 Lake Fork Community Foundation 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.
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