· Community foundation
Pikes Peak Community Foundation
To inspire a passionate community to forge an enduring legacy now and for future generations.
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 185 grants below total $10,020,423 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,610,505 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $590,082 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 $10k43 grants · $295k
- $10k–50k107 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $8.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
219 repeat relationships — 127 still active in FY2024, 92 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- WHWESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +24% · 93% of their budget
- GOGarden of the Gods Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +57% · 47% of their budget
Compassion International Incorporated8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TGTHE GREATER COLORADO SPRINGS CHAMBER ANDone grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +0%
- COCity of Colorado Springs Parks Recreation and Cone grant, 2020 · $932k
- EPEL PASO COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATIONone 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.
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…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
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…
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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
362 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. 362 of the 457 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PIKES PEAK REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Flying Horse Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Garden of the Gods Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER COLORADO SPRINGS CHAMBER AND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Atlas Preparatory School Inc ↗
- Who funds Exponential Impact ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CATAMOUNT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Court Care for the Pikes Peak Region Inc ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds The Catamount Institute ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAZETTE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds StableStrides ↗
- Who funds INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ↗
- Who funds Rise Southeast Elevate ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Myron Stratton Home · Ent Credit Union · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Marson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives 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 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Love a Child Inc — 0% 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.