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Rocks Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$294kHealth$175kHuman Services$107kFood & Nutrition$66kYouth Development$41kReligion$40kAnimals$28kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Children's Literacy Center$5,000
Care & Share Food Bank$5,000
One October Inc$5,000
Springs Rescue Mission$5,000
Boulder Pregnancy Center$5,000
Crossfire Ministries$5,000
Histroric St Elmo and Chalk Creek Canyon Inc$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Springs Rescue Mission: $8k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $8k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $6k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $5k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $5k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$712k · 24 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
7

Total granted

$712k
$30k

Still filing today

54%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $73k · revenue +2%
  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +148%
  • HC
    Hillside Connection
    5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +314%

Funded once

  • CL
    Colorado Literacy Learning Center
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SF
    & Share Food Bank
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • TS
    The Salvation Army
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

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…

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2
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
3
Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado

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.

Philanthropy
4
Pikes Peak Athletic Foundation
Recreation & Sports
5
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

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,…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

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…

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7
Colorado Healing Fund

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

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Estes Park Medical Center Foundation

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.

Health
11
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The See The Future Fund: $60,000 · OtherThe See The Future FundBoulder Pregnancy Center: $43,000 · OtherBoulder Pregnancy CenterBEXLEY STRONG: $38,000 · OtherBEXLEY STRONGCheyenne Mountain Zoo: $28,000 · OtherCheyenne Mountain ZooIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChildren's Literacy Learning Center: $20,000 · OtherChildren's Literacy Learning CenterAllies Foundation: $17,000 · OtherAllies FoundationFoundation for Succesful Living: $12,000 · Other+15 more: $72,210 · Other+15 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $73,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDA…FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $56,000 · EducationFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE…PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · EducationPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUN…Community Partnership for Child Development: $26,000 · EducationCommunity Partnership for Chi…Children's Literacy Center Inc: $19,000 · EducationChildren's Literacy Center In…THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $36,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRING…Colorado Dyslexia Foundation: $22,000 · Human ServicesColorado D…TESSA: $12,100 · Human ServicesTESSAHillside Connection: $41,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS PASSION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCraig Hospital Foundation: $54,000 · HealthStableStrides: $40,000 · ReligionCrossfire Ministries Inc: $5,000 · ReligionCare and Share Inc: $32,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$310,210Education$200,000Human Services$70,100Youth Development$61,000Health$54,000Religion$45,000Food & Nutrition$32,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $54,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHillside Connection: $41,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetStableStrides: $40,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Dyslexia Foundation: $22,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetKIDS PASSION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 5y, 80% of budgetChildren's Literacy Center Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTESSA: $12,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $6,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Crossfire Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC ST ELMO AND CHALK CREEK CANYON INC ↗

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.

The Joseph Henry Edmo…The Myron Stratton Ho…Ent Credit UnionPikes Peak Community …El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Hester E & Edwin …Jerome V Bruni Founda…Pikes Peak United WayThe Marson FoundationINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Colorado Springs Heal…
The Joseph Henry Edmondson FoundationCO24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rocks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rocks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rocks Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rocks Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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