· Private foundation
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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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $6,900 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $4,600 |
| NAROPA UNIVERSITY | $2,300 |
| RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| ILIFF SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $2,300 |
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| REGIS UNIVERSITY | $2,300 |
| OTERO JUNIOR COLLEGE | $2,300 |
| AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,300 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $2,300 |
| PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATI | $2,300 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of your 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.
49 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +28%
- PCPueblo Community College Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +186%
- CCColorado Christian University7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADOone grant, 2024 · $2k
- WCWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $2k
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 support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.
The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…
Increase, manage, and distribute resources for the benefit of the students, the college, and the community
The cnm foundation is committed to the principle that no central new mexico community college student should be denied the opportunity for an education or vocational training due solely to a lack of financial resources. the cnm foundation…
The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.
Lower columbia college foundation's mission is to provide financial support where public funds are not sufficient, and to gather public support for the enhancement of educational opportunities at lower columbia college.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
The cuesta college foundation supports the excellence of cuesta college by engaging the community and building philanthropic resources. the funds raised and managed by the foundation strengthen college programs, provide educational…
To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.
The community college of philadelphia (ccp) foundation enhances and enriches the educational experiences of community college of philadelphia students by providing external resources to support the college's mission. as the private fund…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Denver Foundation 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 51 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 55 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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pueblo Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Colorado Community College System Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Western Colorado Community 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 Roof F T Char 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.