· Private foundation
Rocks Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CU Foundation | $21,000 |
| Colorado Dyslexia Foundation | $12,000 |
| Front Range Community College Foundation | $12,000 |
| Hillside Connection | $11,000 |
| The See The Future Fund | $10,000 |
| Pikes Peak State Foundation | $9,000 |
| Bexley Strong | $9,000 |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $8,000 |
| Care & Share Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Boulder Pregnancy Center | $5,000 |
| One October Inc | $5,000 |
| Histroric St Elmo and Chalk Creek Canyon Inc | $5,000 |
| Children's Literacy Center | $5,000 |
| Crossfire Ministries | $5,000 |
| Springs Rescue Mission | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $73k · revenue +2%
- CHCraig Hospital Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +60%
- HCHillside Connection5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +314%
Funded once
- CLColorado Literacy Learning Centerone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SF& Share Food Bankone grant, 2020 · $8k
- TSThe Salvation Armyone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
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.
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…
Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado
To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…
THE COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS, INC. DBA EARLY CONNECTIONS LEARNING CENTERS (THE CENTER)OFFERS A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM OF SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND cognitive development for children in the Pikes Peak Region. This includes…
Estes Park Health Foundation increases community awareness of Estes Park Health (EPH). The Foundation develops, manages, and distributes funds to assist them in fulfilling their mission.
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kids Passion Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hillside Connection ↗
- Who funds StableStrides ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds Colorado Dyslexia Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS PASSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Literacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TESSA ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ST ELMO AND CHALK CREEK CANYON INC ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crossfire Ministries Inc ↗
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: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Ent Credit Union · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Jerome V Bruni Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · The Marson Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health 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 Rocks Family 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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