How much did Pikes Peak United Way grant in FY2023?

Pikes Peak United Way reported 60 grants totaling $2,022,253 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is Pikes Peak United Way based?

Pikes Peak United Way is based in CO.

Pikes Peak United Way

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

Pikes Peak United Way

To enhance youth success and family stability in the pikes peak region by leading and lifting the most vulnerable in our community with mentorship, (cont on sch o)

$2.0M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$256k

Largest

01What you fund

0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.

Human Services$2.3MEducation$684kHousing & Shelter$470kYouth Development$286kEmployment$190kReligion$184kCivil Rights$151kCrime & Legal$140kPhilanthropy$123kOther$1.7M

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

2019

neighborsengagementhabitatparticular faithathletessportsblind visually

2020

athletessportsblind visuallyhabitatparticular faithenergy conservationvision

2021

kidsinspireactiveartsspringsenergy conservationleaders

2022

catholic healthartsspecialspringscalvarychapeldreams

2023

memorialsbooksdreamenvironmentcommunicationstrengthenofficers

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

03FY2023 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k16 grants · $110k
$10k–50k39 grants · $876k
$50k–250k4 grants · $428k
$250k+1 grant · $256k

$16,376

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Inc$256,002
Early Connections Learning Centers$176,734
Community Partnership for Child Dev$116,522
Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado$76,025
Mount Carmel Center of Excellence DBA Mt Carmel V$59,008
Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado$42,832
CASA of the Pikes Peak Region Inc$42,360
Colorado Springs Utilities Foundation$40,867
Ascending to Health Respite Care$40,000
Silver Key Senior Services$37,902
Fostering Hope Foundation$37,337
Partners in Housing Inc$35,990
Rocky Mountain Calvary Chapel Inc$32,630
Peak Education$31,580
Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains$30,022

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 (FY19–23, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 2% 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.5M · 57 repeat orgs$686k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.5M

$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+55%

Still filing today

82%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

EC
Early Connections Learning Ctr
6× · 2018–2023 · $842k · revenue +56%
CP
Community Partnership for Child Dev
6× · 2018–2023 · $521k · revenue +47%
PI
Partners in Housing Inc
6× · 2018–2023 · $267k · revenue +78%

Funded once

BG
Boys & Girls Club Pikes Peak Regiongraduated
one grant, 2021 · $107k · revenue +31%
CI
Colorado International Events
one grant, 2021 · $55k
HC
Hillside Community Centergraduated
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +219% · 32% of their budget

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.

Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health

Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors

We create economic vitality through memorable visits to the wonders of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region.

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Mountainland Pediatrics Inc

To enhance the health of our community by providing comprehensive evidence-based mental healthcare integrated with quality primary care.

Health

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

Colorado Springs Independence Center

We provide support & information empowering people with disabilities to remove barriers and achieve independence.

Human Services

Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado

Empowering every age at every stage.

Health

Colorado West Healthcare System

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

Health

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services

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…

—

Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health

Community Reach Center Inc

To enhance the health of our community.

Health

Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA programs and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Regis University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/109

the rest of the field

12%

428/3,514

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

90 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

89/90

Grantees still filing

72/90

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$2,264,926Other$2,074,981Education$684,312Housing & Shelter$469,863Youth Development$285,835Employment$189,900Religion$183,898

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.

Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO138.8× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Ent Credit Union · The Myron Stratton Home · Indygive · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Marson Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc

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 United Way 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: Hillside Community Center.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 830810166 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 Hillside Community Center, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
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 United Way?

Find your warmest path to Pikes Peak United Way 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 United Way

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

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pikes Peak United Way?

More from the funding graph

Pikes Peak United Way

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

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pikes Peak United Way?

More from the funding graph