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Shift Events

SHIFT EVENTS mission is to produce exceptional experiences that positively impact the communities we serve.

$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$294kYouth Development$224kEducation$189kHealth$37kInternational$19kHuman Services$18kCommunity Improvement$18kEnvironment$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $179,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $235,775 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,625 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $136k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$566k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAR CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$20,000
BICYCLE COLORADO$20,000
ACTIVE 4 ALL FOUNDATION$20,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION$16,000
COLORADO HS CYCLING LEAGUE$14,000
PEO INTERNATIONAL$13,450
LUCKY TO RIDE$12,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CHAFFEE COUNTY$10,000
ELEVATEHER COLORADO$10,000
GOALS YOUTH RIVER EXPEDITIONS$9,000
OVATION WEST PERFORMING ARTS$6,000
CONIFER KIWANIS$6,000
SALIDA MOUNTAIN TRAILS$6,000
BLUE SPRUCE EVERGREEN KIWANIS FNDTN$5,500
INTO YOUR HANDS AFRICA$5,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%One Good Turn: $6k → 8%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$517k · 7 repeat orgs$423k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
22

Total granted

$517k
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CM
    Colorado Mountain Bike Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $141k · revenue +90%
  • CH
    COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $139k · revenue +9%
  • SM
    Salida Mountain Trails
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • TG
    TEC Grants Less Than 5k
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • SE
    SHIFT EVENTS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +14%
  • PB
    PROJECT BIKE TECH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +1%
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
Pchsmtb

Middle and high school MT bike team

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2
Skyline Mountain Bike Team Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Bozeman Youth Cycling

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.

Recreation & Sports
4
Boulder Valley Cycling Alliance

Develop, coach and inspire junior cycling athletes

Recreation & Sports
5
DUST2

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…

Recreation & Sports
6
International Mountain Bicycling Association Central Wyoming Trails Alliance

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Teton Valley Composite Corp

Mountain biking club

Recreation & Sports
8
Womenmtb

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…

Education
9
Mt Alpha Cycling

Identifying women, girls, and non-binary people on bikes, focusing on cultivating skills, confidence, and competition through clinics, group rides, training, and race support.

Recreation & Sports
10
Olympus High School Mountain Bike Team

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…

Education
11
Pikes Peak Athletic Foundation
Recreation & Sports
12
Overland Mountain Bike Association

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bicycle Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Colorado Mountain Bike Association: $140,950 · Recreation & SportsColorado Mountain Bike Associati…SHIFT EVENTS: $46,600 · Recreation & SportsSHIFT EVENTSLucky Bikes: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsLucky BikesSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $23,250 · Recreation & Sports+3 moreTEC Grants Less Than 5k: $99,740 · OtherTEC Grants Less Than 5kEVERGREEN RECREATION AND PARK FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherEVERGREEN RECREATION AND PARK FOUN…CLEAR CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCLEAR CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONMESA COUNTY ELECTIONS: $15,000 · OtherPEO Sisterhood IA State Chapter: $14,000 · OtherPEO Sisterhood IN State Chapter: $13,450 · OtherBootstraps Inc: $10,000 · OtherDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $86,634 · Other+14 moreCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE: $139,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO HIGH SCHOO…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…elevateHER: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentelevateHERBICYCLE COLORADO: $130,000 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADOPROJECT BIKE TECH: $15,000 · EducationPROJECT BIKE TECHSalida Mountain Trails: $26,000 · EnvironmentGOALS: $17,750 · EnvironmentVail Valley Mountain Bike Association: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES: $18,000 · Community ImprovementOne Good Turn: $6,400 · Human Services
Recreation & Sports$268,300Other$288,824Youth Development$159,000Education$145,000Environment$53,750Community Improvement$18,000Human Services$6,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColorado Mountain Bike Association: $140,950 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE: $139,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $130,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSHIFT EVENTS: $46,600 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLucky Bikes: $45,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSalida Mountain Trails: $26,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetEVERGREEN RECREATION AND PARK FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES: $18,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGOALS: $17,750 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPROJECT BIKE TECH: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPEO Sisterhood IA State Chapter: $14,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPEO Sisterhood IN State Chapter: $13,450 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVail Valley Mountain Bike Association: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBootstraps Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetelevateHER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBOULDER MOUNTAINBIKE ALLIANCE: $8,750 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAvout Racing Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOne Good Turn: $6,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEvergreen Chorale Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMY D FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS: $5,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands: $5,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFront Rangers Cycling Club Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIL AIR PATROL FOUNDATION: $5,200 over 1y, 80% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Team Evergreen Bicycl…The Denver FoundationLumen Clarke M Willia…The Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationBaird Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shift Events funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shift Events. 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%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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 Shift Events?

    Find your warmest path to Shift Events 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 39 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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