· Public charity
Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation
Preserve our western heritage and sense of community while providing recreation, education and exciting opportunities to residents and visitors alike while maintaining our roots in the pikes peak region and supporting our local active duty military members and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $143,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $165,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT CARSON SERGEANTS MAJOR ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| PETERSON AFB OPERATION WARM HEART | $29,500 |
| USAFA CHIEFS GROUP | $10,000 |
| SPACE ENLISTED COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPACE TOP 3 | $10,000 |
| 302ND FIRST SERGEANTS WARM HEART | $7,500 |
| NORAD AND USNORTHCOM ENLISTED COUNCIL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEART3× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +138%
- TMTHE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +52%
- TATRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $31k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $45k
- PVPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERSone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +18%
- WRWORKING RANCH COWBOYS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +65%
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.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
Preserve our western heritage and sense of community while providing recreation, education and exciting opportunities to residents and visitors alike while maintaining our roots in the pikes peak region and supporting our local active duty…
To build effective partnerships that support the cs police dept and local community
The purposes of the corporation are fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The air force memorial foundation was created to honor our airmen and preserve air force heritage by providing support to the air force memorial. effective march 1, 2017, the united states air force assumed responsibility for the…
The mission of the cfhf is to honor fallen law enforcement officers, as well as to respect and support their survivors and agencies.
The organization provides a free program of unique horsemanship, wellness, and skill set restructuring that is open to all post 9/11 veterans as well as active military personnel who have sustained post-traumatic stress, combat trauma, or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Forces Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Norad and Usnorthcom Enlisted Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 33 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 PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peak Vista Community Health Ctrs Foundation ↗
- Who funds Norad And Usnorthcom Enlisted Council ↗
- Who funds PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds WORKING RANCH COWBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Uniformed Services Outreach and Support ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 or Bust Rodeo 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.
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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