· Public charity
Pikes Peak Area Rotary Endowment
To provide funds to nonprofit organizations in the Pikes Peak region to help further their nonprofit mission.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $58,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $134,548 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $76,048 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
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westside Cares | $27,000 |
| Little Chapel Food Pantry | $10,000 |
| Fostering Hope Foundation | $8,000 |
| Multiple Sclerosis Alliance of Southern Colorado | $7,500 |
| Assistance League of Colorado Springs | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WCWESTSIDE CARES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +65%
- COCommunity of Caring Foundation Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +101%
- FHFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CCCommunity Coalition for Families and Childrengraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +91%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF COLO SPRINGSone grant, 2017 · $7k
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLO SPRINGSone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
The Parker Task Force for Human Services is a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit organization primarily dedicated to offering support to individuals and families in Parker, Franktown, and Elizabeth, Colorado, by providing food, limited financial…
To use community resources to provide basic human services and enrichment programs to low-income people, while fostering self-sufficiency and respecting the dignity of each client.
CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
The Home Together Fund, through its private donors, is there in time of need to provide financial assistance so that people affected by disaster have a means to maintain a safe home for their families. The Home Together Fund provides…
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
Christian Home for Children, also known as Family Life Services, facilitates life transformation for single moms and their children through faith-based community. This is accomplished through a resident program and a community outreach…
To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
The Organization was incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado in 1999 for the purpose of providing support and alternative services for women and men who experience an unplanned pregnancy. As a faith based organization, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B Cos We Care for Our Community Fka Assistance League of Colorado Spring and the most unlike its peers is Multiple Sclerosis Society of Colorado Springs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 WESTSIDE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Cupboard of Woodland Park Inc ↗
- Who funds Community of Caring Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Multiple Sclerosis Society of Colorado Springs ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP THE NEEDY DBA HTN - HOPE LIVES HERE ↗
- Who funds B COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds REACH PIKES PEAK ↗
- Who funds Diakonia ↗
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: The Myron Stratton Home · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Creative Providers Foundation · Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable Trust · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Energy Outreach Colorado
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 Pikes Peak Area Rotary Endowment 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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