How much did PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Housing & Shelter$11MHuman Services$9.0MPhilanthropy$5.7MEducation$4.0MRecreation & Sports$3.6MArts & Culture$3.2MEnvironment$3.1MInternational$2.5MHealth$2.0MOther$19M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

see part

2019

see part

2020

see part

2021

health foodreligion churchzhistoricaldisabilities physicalrelief covidconservation trailtrail park

2022

fidelitypopulation youthdonorsfaitheducationfocusingfreedom liberty

2023

open spacefaitheducationpercentaffordable workforceworkforce housingpre-born

2024

faithtraditioncreatingcheyenneenergy conservationintellectual developmentalpercent

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 185 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k43 grants · $295k
$10k–50k107 grants · $2.0M
$50k–250k28 grants · $2.2M
$250k+7 grants · $5.5M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$85M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$1,994,480
GARDEN OF THE GODS FOUNDATION INC$891,017
DAFGIVING360$834,083
PIKES PEAK REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION$766,000
WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER$450,000
RISE SOUTHEAST ELEVATE$275,893
THE NEBRASKA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA$275,600
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$200,000
DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM$150,500
JMAKS DREAM TEAM$140,000
EXPONENTIAL IMPACT$120,000
HILLTOP RANCH$108,000
NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC$90,000
PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY$86,468
EMPTY STOCKING FUND$81,485

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $8.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$54M · 226 repeat orgs$10.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

226 repeat relationships — 130 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

226

182

Total granted

$54M

$6.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+43%

Still filing today

81%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

PP
PIKES PEAK REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $11M · revenue +610% · 94% of their budget
FH
FLYING HORSE FOUNDATION
2× · 2021–2022 · $3.3M · revenue +430% · 65% of their budget
WH
WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER
4× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +1012% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

CS
COLORADO SPRINGS CHAMBER & EDCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +95%
CO
City of Colorado Springs Parks Recreation and C
one grant, 2020 · $932k
EP
El Paso County Bar Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $340k · revenue -62%

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.

The Colorado Trust

Philanthropy

The Colorado Health Foundation

Health

Colorado West Healthcare System

Improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.

Health

The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc

Recreation & Sports

Colorado Health Institute

Health

Denver Press Club

Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…

Arts & Culture

JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health

Usa Triathlon of Colorado

The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.

Recreation & Sports

Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado

We make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health

Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen.

Philanthropy

Aia Colorado

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…

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Folklorico De Barajas. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%3/452

the rest of the field

11%

3,767/32,965

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.

05the grantee network

361 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

131

Early backer (in before they grew)

345/361

Grantees still filing

281/361

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$27,119,055Housing & Shelter$11,143,595Human Services$8,959,943Philanthropy$5,664,104Education$3,963,685Recreation & Sports$3,559,630Arts & Culture$3,241,352

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.

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 Springs Health FoundationCO180.9× affinity94 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Springs Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · Indygive · Ent Credit Union · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Marson Foundation · Catholic Health Initiatives 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 organisation PIKES PEAK 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UCCS Development Corporation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800844761 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UCCS Development Corporation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Pikes Peak Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pikes Peak Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

361 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pikes Peak Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

361 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pikes Peak Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph