· Private foundation
Rocky Mountain Health Foundation
IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF COLORADANS LIVING ON THE WESTERN SLOPE BY INVESTING IN EXISTING COMMUNITY ASSETS AND BY ACTING AS A CATALYST FOR NEW APPROACHES.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k102 grants · $438k
- $10k–50k218 grants · $4.3M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $108,000 |
| RIVER CENTER OF NEW CASTLE | $54,000 |
| HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $48,000 |
| HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $45,500 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST | $42,000 |
| LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY | $42,000 |
| THE PINON PROJECT | $42,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $41,500 |
| COUNSELING AND EDUCATION CENTER | $41,500 |
| COUNSELING AND EDUCATION CENTER | $40,000 |
| FAMILY AND INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER (FIRC) | $38,000 |
| ASPEN HOPE CENTER | $38,000 |
| VALLEY SETTLEMENT | $38,000 |
| LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY | $38,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
266 repeat relationships — 181 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k 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
- HHHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION7× · 2018–2025 · $795k · revenue +30%
- GVGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC7× · 2018–2025 · $560k · revenue +57%
- CFCENTER FOR ENRICHED COMMUNICATION8× · 2018–2025 · $413k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- CFCARING FOR COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +36%
- HSHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST - CEACone grant, 2022 · $40k
- TPTHE PINON PROJECT FAMILY RESOURCE CTR - MEACone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
To provide access to quality behavioral health services that enrich lives and promote wellness. We are driven by a profound respect for human dignity and a desire to serve the underrepresented, the disenfranchised, and those who experience…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
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…
To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Cbhc's mission is to support community resilience, guide behavioral health innovation, and enhance individual well-being throughout colorado by supporting colorado's community behavioral health safety net providers.
Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
ORGANIZATIONS MISSION: We foster equitable access to health and well-being resources so our community can thrive. Oragnizations Vision: To help people live longer, healthier lives.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
The Organization provides developed, evidence-based prevention and treatment mental health program services focused on alcohol, substance abuse, and domestic violence related issues. The Organization also provides affordable and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caring for Colorado Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Health Institute. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
265 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. 265 of the 467 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ENRICHED COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds Lift Up of Routt County ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds River Center of New Castle Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTHZONE INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BUDGET CENTER ↗
- Who funds Grief Center of Southwest Colorado ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Pinon Project ↗
- Who funds EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds KARIS INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HopeWest ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ALL POINTS TRANSIT INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Yampa Valley Autism Program ↗
- Who funds Haven House of Montrose Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds La Plata Youth Services ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SUMMITWEST CARE 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: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Nextfifty Initiative · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 Rocky Mountain Health 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.