· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPACE ENLISTED COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SPACE TOP 3 | $10,000 |
| 302ND FIRST SERGEANTS WARM HEART | $7,500 |
| NORAD AND USNORTHCOM ENLISTED COUNCIL | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Provide services for veterans and veterans organization
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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