· Public charity
Afcea Education Foundation
To offer annual scholarships and grants for students and teachers in science, technology, engineering and math (stem).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $82,000 |
| SCRIPPS HOWARD FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| PIKES PEAK ROBOTICS | $65,000 |
| GOODWILL OF COLORADO | $50,000 |
| HARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,625 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR | $10,000 |
| WIDEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- PPPikes Peak Best3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +39% · 72% of their budget
- TSThe Scripps Howard Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +79%
- GOGoodwill of Colorado3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +2%
- PPPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +46%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -13%
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.
To inspire a passionate community to forge an enduring legacy now and for future generations. this mission is attained by building a community endowment, helping donors address community needs and providing philanthropic leadership.
Provide education for students in Pre-K through 8th grade, benefitting approximately 415 students.
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…
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
Kipp colorado's mission is to equip our students with the academic skills and character strengths necessary to succeed in college and careers.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill of Colorado and the most unlike its peers is The Scripps Howard Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 Pikes Peak Best ↗
- Who funds The Scripps Howard Foundation ↗
- Who funds Goodwill of Colorado ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds Business and Education Alliance ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Colorado Education Initiative · Pikes Peak United Way · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Afcea Education 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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