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Montrose Community Foundation
The Mission and Purpose of the Montrose Community Foundation is to: * Seek and Embrace Innovative Ideas * Connect Charitable Donors to Community Causes * Promote Worthwhile Community Projects and Partnerships
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $655,531 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $957,890 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $302,359 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colorado State University | $125,966 |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $84,617 |
| Magic Circle Players Theater | $61,465 |
| Grand Canyon University | $58,395 |
| Iowa 4-H Foundation | $50,000 |
| Montana State University | $40,094 |
| Montrose Recreation District | $33,876 |
| Pacific University | $33,628 |
| University of Denver | $26,903 |
| Montrose Regional Library District | $23,675 |
| Arizona State University | $15,000 |
| Montrose Children's Museum | $14,154 |
| Colorado Mesa University | $14,000 |
| CASA of the 7th Judicial District | $13,000 |
| Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists | $11,806 |
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 (FY18–20, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k 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
- COCASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC4× · 2018–2024 · $94k · revenue +606%
- BCBLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC4× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +31%
- LOLibraries of Montrose County Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- TKTHE KIT FARAGHER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $51k · revenue -32% · 59% of their budget
- WHWelcome Home Montrose Incone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -61%
- MCMONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +44% · 45% of their budget
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.
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…
The colorado mountain college foundation builds sustainable community support for the needs and strategic priorities of colorado mountain college and its students.
The museum of western colorado is an educational institution that collects, preserves, and interprets artifacts, specimens, and information concerning the cultural and natural history of western colorado and the contiguous area. we enhance…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.
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.
Provide education and training to colorado state university (csu) students by providing print and broadcast media services.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.
Together we create solutions for a better life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montrose Memorial Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montrose Childrens Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 64 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 CASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN LEADS SERVES ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds THE KIT FARAGHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Libraries of Montrose County Foundation ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 7TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CHILD ADVOCACY CTR DBA THE DOLPHIN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MONTROSE BOTANICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Welcome Home Montrose Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS ↗
- Who funds MY NEIGHBORS VOICE ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTROSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists CO ERO Resources Corp ↗
- Who funds HopeWest ↗
- Who funds Montrose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND MONTROSE INC ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds DREAM CATCHER THERAPY CENTER 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: Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Jeffrey & Janet Quay Charitable Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Muchnic Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Telluride Foundation · Donald and Jenny Horn Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado 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 Montrose 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.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
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.