· Public charity
Shift Events
SHIFT EVENTS mission is to produce exceptional experiences that positively impact the communities we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $179,150 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,775 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,625 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BICYCLE COLORADO | $20,000 |
| ACTIVE 4 ALL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CLEAR CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| COLORADO HS CYCLING LEAGUE | $14,000 |
| PEO INTERNATIONAL | $13,450 |
| LUCKY TO RIDE | $12,500 |
| ELEVATEHER COLORADO | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CHAFFEE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GOALS YOUTH RIVER EXPEDITIONS | $9,000 |
| OVATION WEST PERFORMING ARTS | $6,000 |
| SALIDA MOUNTAIN TRAILS | $6,000 |
| CONIFER KIWANIS | $6,000 |
| BLUE SPRUCE EVERGREEN KIWANIS FNDTN | $5,500 |
| INTO YOUR HANDS AFRICA | $5,500 |
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 (FY21–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- CMColorado Mountain Bike Association4× · 2021–2024 · $141k · revenue +26%
- CHCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE4× · 2021–2024 · $139k · revenue +9%
- SMSalida Mountain Trails3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- TGTEC Grants Less Than 5kone grant, 2021 · $100k
- SESHIFT EVENTS2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +14%
- MCMESA COUNTY ELECTIONSone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Middle and high school MT bike team
Provides high-quality mountain bike instruction to local youth in Bozeman Montana and supports the expansion of mountain biking opportunities for the community including community events and trail development.
Develop, coach and inspire junior cycling athletes
Dust2 works to 1) encourage bicycling as an active, lifelong sport, 2) develop a sense of community within individuals, groups, and other organizations, 3) provide stewardship to create and maintain bicycle riding opportunities, 4) oversee…
CWTA seeks to preserve, protect, and promote mountain biking, trail running, hiking and equestrian access on public and publicly accessible private lands. Through effective communication and education, we advocate for diverse use…
Mountain biking club
Our mission is to empower women and community through mountain biking by creating an environment of acceptance encouragement growth and education Group Rides- More than 60 mountain biking rides free to the public Each ride is led and swept…
Identifying women, girls, and non-binary people on bikes, focusing on cultivating skills, confidence, and competition through clinics, group rides, training, and race support.
Undertake and support educational and charitable activities to strengthen body mind and character and promote life-long health and fitness through cycling with particular emphasis on education of high school and middle school age young…
Promote and support skills and safety for mountain biking in and around the front range of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. This includes trail upkeep and expansion and safe biking education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bicycle Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Mountain Bike Association. 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 19 years old; the field is 15. 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 — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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 Mountain Bike Association ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SHIFT EVENTS ↗
- Who funds Lucky Bikes ↗
- Who funds Salida Mountain Trails ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN RECREATION AND PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES ↗
- Who funds GOALS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BIKE TECH ↗
- Who funds PEO Sisterhood IA State Chapter ↗
- Who funds PEO Sisterhood IN State Chapter ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds elevateHER ↗
- Who funds Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association ↗
- Who funds DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bootstraps Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MOUNTAINBIKE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Avout Racing Inc ↗
- Who funds One Good Turn ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE GROUN D TEAM ↗
- Who funds Evergreen Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds AMY D FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS ↗
- Who funds Front Rangers Cycling Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Blue Spruce Evergreen Kiwanis Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Rooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CIVIL AIR PATROL 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Team Evergreen Bicycle Club · The Denver Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Shift Events 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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