· Private foundation
Lake Fork Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lake Fork Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lake Fork Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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