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Redline

Redline fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change.

$661k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.2MYouth Development$160kHuman Services$112kPublic Benefit$80kCommunity Improvement$60kEmployment$60kHealth$55kCivil Rights$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $582,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $661,040 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,040 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 $10k15 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $499k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Warm Cookies of the Revolution$40,000
Colorado State University$35,000
Mt Carmel Veterans Services Center$35,000
Musical Mentors Collaborative$35,000
2MX2 LLC$32,000
Voices$30,000
Sound Affects Music$26,000
Friends of the Genoa Tower$25,000
Presenting Denver$25,000
Fiestas Patrias LLC$20,000
The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc$20,000
Colorado Dragon Boat Festival$20,000
Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition$20,000
Art Students League of Denver$17,500
Rural Journalism Institute of SLV$16,000
02The need
03

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, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARTNERS YOUTH MENTORING: $15k → 12%GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC LIBERTY RURAL LEARNING COOPERATIVE: $20k → 13%MT ROSE HEALTH CENTER PALLIAT: $20k → 18%PARTNERS YOUTH MENTORING OF DELTA MONTROSE AND OURAY: $10k → 12%THE LIBERTY RURAL LEARNING COOPERATIVE: $10k → 13%CHICANOA MURALS OF CO PROJEC: $20k → 7%CHICANOA MURALS OF COLORADO PROJECT: $15k → 7%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $13k → 12%DENVER INDIAN FRC: $15k → 12%ECDCAFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF DENVER: $20k → 12%ATLANTIS COMMUNITY INC: $30k → 12%Presenting Denver: $25k → 12%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MGMT: $25k → 12%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR: $15k → 12%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MGMT: $10k → 12%FOUR WINDS AMERICAN INDIAN COUNCIL: $9k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 41 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
63

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+47%

Still filing today

85%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth 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

  • WC
    WARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +224%
  • MT
    MOTUS THEATER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $93k · revenue +266%
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CE
    COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • CC
    CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -10%
  • CO
    COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +72%

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.

1
Colorado Artists in Recovery

Colorado Artists in Recovery utilizes recovery-oriented principles to provide a safe, encouraging, and inclusive environment for people affected by substance use and mental health. Through our workshops and events we nurture their creative…

Arts & Culture
2
The Cultural Caravan

The Cultural Caravan brings together locally-owned businesses, social-serviced nonprofits, municipal organizations, and local artists to make Boulder more vibrant, inclusive, culturally active, and economically vital by presenting…

Arts & Culture
3
The Center for the Arts

The center for arts, a home for arts and culture, offers engaging opportunities and educational experiences to enrich and expand the life of our community.

Arts & Culture
4
Boulder County Arts Alliance Inc

Since 1966, BCAA acts as a catalyst to incubate, stimulate and sustain a thriving arts community in Boulder County. BCAA commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive and equitable Boulder…

Arts & Culture
5
Fort Collins Mural Project

Our mission is to collaborate with local artists and businesses to promote contemporary art in public spaces in Fort Collins, Colorado. FCMP is focused on providing opportunities for underrepresented and emerging artists in Colorado.

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado Events

Colorado events mission is to organize community events that increase public knowledge and appreciation for visual arts, fine crafts, and supporting local merchants, by creating opportunities that connect artists and local businesses, with…

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7
Gunnison Council for the Arts

The Gunnison Arts Center creates community through the arts by providing accessible and inclusive programs, events, and educational experiences that foster creativity, support local artists, and enrich lives.

Arts & Culture
8
Denver Fringe Festival Inc

The Denver Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access festival that supports bold, progressive arts and diverse voices in all genres of performance arts. Our primary purpose is to support independent artists and promote access to original…

Arts & Culture
9
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
10
Durango Arts Center Inc

The Durango Arts Center ("DAC") enriches the community through innovative visual and performing art, and arts education. DAC advances appreciation and participation in the arts as a cultural leader in the region.

Arts & Culture
11
Open Studios Inc

Open Studios is an organization operating in Boulder County, Colorado that serves artists and the broader community by advancing the visual arts through education and events.

Arts & Culture
12
Denvers Art District on Santa Fe

The Art District on Santa Fe serves as a vital organization in uniting artists, providing educational and technical resources to businesses, driving economic development through events and programming, advocating for members and the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth On Record and the most unlike its peers is Mt Rose Health Center Palliative Care and Hospice Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr14%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%5%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%8%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
7/133
the rest of the field
13%
2,794/20,903

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.

04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 134 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/98
Grantees still filing
70/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOTUS THEATER — $92,500 · Arts & CultureMOTUS THEATERYOUTH ON RECORD — $80,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ON RECORDSOUND AFFECTS MUSIC — $71,000 · Arts & CultureSU TEATRO INC — $65,000 · Arts & CulturePHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $60,000 · Arts & CultureLOCAL THEATER COMPANY — $60,000 · Arts & CultureACCESS GALLERY — $55,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT — $50,000 · Arts & CultureEcoArts Connections — $47,500 · Arts & Culture+31 more — $732,000 · Arts & Culture+31 moreCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC — $80,000 · OtherCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INCART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER — $75,500 · OtherMancos Creative District Inc — $61,000 · OtherPROJECT SHOP — $60,000 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICE — $50,000 · OtherCity of Westminster — $50,000 · OtherYOUTH EMPLOYMENT ACADEMY — $60,000 · OtherTHE COYOTE SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $50,000 · Other+52 more — $920,000 · Other+52 moreINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesEMANUEL PROJECT INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesAtlantis Community Incorporated — $30,000 · Human ServicesGRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesPRESENTING DENVER — $25,000 · Human ServicesDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMT ROSE HEALTH CENTER PALLIATIVE CARE AND HOSPICE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $14,865 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for the Homeless — $12,500 · Human Services+1 more — $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $75,000 · EducationPOP CULTURE CLASSROOM — $60,000 · EducationMusical Mentors Collaborative Inc — $35,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $12,000 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADO — $10,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $85,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE GENOA TOWER — $40,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementWEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $20,000 · Community ImprovementBIRDSEED COLLECTIVE — $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementWARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION — $135,000 · PhilanthropyWORDS TO POWER — $40,000 · PhilanthropyMIRROR IMAGE — $37,000 · HealthCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $30,000 · HealthNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · HealthNAMI COLORADO — $20,000 · HealthCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $20,000 · HealthTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE — $5,000 · HealthJOY AS RESISTANCE — $5,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$1,373,000Other$1,456,500Human Services$271,365Education$217,000Community Improvement$180,000Philanthropy$175,000Health$147,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION — $135,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMOTUS THEATER — $92,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD — $80,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC — $80,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER — $75,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSOUND AFFECTS MUSIC — $71,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSU TEATRO INC — $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMancos Creative District Inc — $61,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT ACADEMY — $60,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY — $60,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPOP CULTURE CLASSROOM — $60,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLOCAL THEATER COMPANY — $60,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetACCESS GALLERY — $55,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEcoArts Connections — $47,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC — $42,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPLATTEFORUM — $42,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetWORDS TO POWER — $40,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GENOA TOWER — $40,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetTHINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING — $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS — $40,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMIRROR IMAGE — $37,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetEMANUEL PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetMusical Mentors Collaborative Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCOLORADO HUMANITIES — $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC — $32,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO MUSIC BRIDGE — $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetVoices — $30,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAtlantis Community Incorporated — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute — $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetPRESENTING DENVER — $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHopeWest — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FRIENDS — $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPGS COUNCIL OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ARTS STUDIO DBA FIREHOUSE ART CENTER — $22,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTabor Opera House Preservation Foundation Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budget
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.

Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationBonfils-Stanton Found…Colorado Gives Founda…Caring for Denver Fou…Gates Family Foundati…Latino Community Foun…Mile High United Way …El Pomar FoundationCaring for Colorado F…Sheila Fortune Founda…
Rose Community FoundationCO73× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Sheila Fortune Foundation 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 organization Redline 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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