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Northern Colorado United for Youth

Support to organizations in the northern colorado region for at risk or disadvantaged youth

$310k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$834kHuman Services$303kCrime & Legal$180kFood & Nutrition$150kHealth$75kHousing & Shelter$65kEducation$50kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $266,080 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $309,945 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,865 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$478k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KidsPak$50,000
United Way of Larimer County$50,000
Realities for Children Charities$50,000
Respite Care Inc$50,000
The Quarter Project$26,080
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity$15,000
We Love And Help Everyone Inc$15,000
Safe Families for Children of Northern Colorado$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIFE STORIES CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY: $40k → 9%COMMUNITY GRIEF CENTER: $8k → 9%THE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $40k → 11%HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 11%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $100k → 11%Respite Care Inc: $50k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $40k → 11%RESPRITE CARE: $15k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $10k → 11%3 HOPEFUL HEARTS: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 13 repeat orgs$595k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$1.0M
$444k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+61%

Still filing today

92%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CF
    Center for Family Outreach Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $140k · revenue +75%
  • TM
    THE MATTHEWS HOUSE
    2× · 2019–2023 · $140k · revenue +50%
  • GA
    GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $120k · revenue +437%

Funded once

  • HH
    HEARTS & HORSES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +121%
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue +41%
  • TT
    TEACHING TREE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +143%

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
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
2
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
3
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal
4
Hilltop Health Services Corporation

Hilltop community resources is dedicated to building a community where everyone belongs. our tailored programs address the unique needs of individuals and families, from behavioral health support and intimate partner violence services to…

Health
5
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc

To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.

Human Services
6
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
7
The Conflict Center

The conflict center equips people with practical skills to navigate, transform and embrace everyday conflict.

Crime & Legal
8
Cornerstones of Care

Partnering for safe and healthy communities.

Human Services
9
Family Tree Inc

Family tree partners with all people to prevent and overcome the interconnected issues of child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness to promote safety, healing and stability across generations.

Human Services
10
Youth and Family Alliance

Youth and family alliance (dba lifeworks) is a fearless advocate for youth and young adults pursuing a life they love and a stable future for themselves and their families. we strive to break cycles of instability by providing support and…

Human Services
11
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
12
La Plata Youth Services

La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Realities for Children Charities and the most unlike its peers is Character in Athletics Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr22%13%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr11%47%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr22%7%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr11%44%35–55yr13%15%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
447/3,334

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
32/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC — $82,500 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INCTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC — $65,000 · OtherTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COU…TEACHING TREE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER — $50,000 · OtherTEACHING TREE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNI…COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATIONTHE GREELEY DREAM TEAM INC — $37,500 · OtherTHE GREELEY DREAM TEAM INCThe Quarter Project — $26,080 · OtherCSU FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherHEARTS & HORSES INC — $75,000 · OtherHEARTS & HORSES INCSTUDENT RECOVERY PROGRAM INC — $50,000 · OtherSTUDENT RECOVERY PROGRAM INC+12 more — $113,000 · Other+12 moreTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE — $140,000 · Human ServicesTHE MATTHEWS HOUSERESPITE CARE INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE INCA KID'S PLACE — $40,000 · Human ServicesA KID'S PLACE+5 more — $30,500 · Human Services+5 moreCenter for Family Outreach Inc — $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter for Family…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLARIMER COUNTY PA…Loveland Youth Gardeners — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY — $115,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES — $50,000 · PhilanthropyREALITIES …GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterGREELEY AR…FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterFORT COLLI…KIDSPAK INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionKIDSPAK I…The Food Bank for Larimer County — $50,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food …WELD FOOD BANK — $50,000 · Food & NutritionWELD FOOD…CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC — $97,500 · Crime & LegalTHE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $7,114 · Crime & Legal
Other$564,080Human Services$325,500Youth Development$268,000Philanthropy$165,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Crime & Legal$104,614

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCenter for Family Outreach Inc — $140,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE — $140,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $120,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY — $115,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRESPITE CARE INC — $115,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC — $97,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC — $82,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC — $65,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY — $65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTEACHING TREE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH — $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetREALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENT RECOVERY PROGRAM INC — $50,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetA KID'S PLACE — $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE GREELEY DREAM TEAM INC — $37,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLoveland Youth Gardeners — $13,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY GRIEF CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetRIGHT TO READ OF WELD COUNTY INC JOHN HAEFELI PRESIDENT — $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $7,114 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTURNING POINT CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget3HOPEFUL HEARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARACTER IN ATHLETICS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Otter Cares Foundatio…Community Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Don & May Wilkins Cha…United Way of Larimer…El Pomar FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…Realities for Childre…United Way of Weld Co…Woodward Governor Cha…Nebraska Community Fo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO58.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · United Way of Larimer County · El Pomar Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Realities for Children Charities · United Way of Weld County Inc · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Nebraska Community 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 Northern Colorado United for Youth 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Northern Colorado United for Youth?

    Find your warmest path to Northern Colorado United for Youth through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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