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Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc

To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$107kHuman Services$64kCrime & Legal$59kEducation$41kEnvironment$41kFood & Nutrition$27kHealth$24kHousing & Shelter$11k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EL COMITE DE LONGMONT$12,000
WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE$12,000
RISE AGAINST SUICIDE$12,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $14k → 12%WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $12k → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $11k → 12%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$351k · 10 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$351k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+210%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • TP
    TEACHING PEACE INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $48k · revenue +11%
  • BC
    BOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +62%
  • IO
    IMPACT ON EDUCATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $41k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AI
    ATTENTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +133%
  • VF
    VOICES FOR CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +210%
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
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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2
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
3
Boulder County Arts Alliance Inc

Since 1966, BCAA acts as a catalyst to incubate, stimulate and sustain a thriving arts community in Boulder County. BCAA commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive and equitable Boulder…

Arts & Culture
4
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance

To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.

Crime & Legal
6
Child and Family Advocacy Program

Blue sky bridge is a child advocacy center dedicated to creating lasting positive change in the lives of children affected by abuse in boulder county and beyond. its vision is to be a beacon of strength, leadership, hope and resilience…

Crime & Legal
7
Colorado Lawyers Committee

To provide legal assistance and increase opportunities for children and other disadvantaged communities through advocacy, negotiation and litigation. Volunteer attorneys dedicate time to improve the quality of life for these causes while…

Crime & Legal
8
Boulder Carshare

To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.

Environment
9
Colorado Access to Justice Commission

The mission of the colorado access to justice commission is to expand access, quality, and fairness in the justice system for all coloradans.

Crime & Legal
10
Womens Comm Leadership Initiative

WCLI empowers women in Colorado Springs to realize their full leadership potential, breakdown barriers to advancement, create a more inclusive and equitable community for all.

Employment
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Boulder County; the most unlike its peers is Rise Against Suicide. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $41,000 · OtherIMPACT ON EDUCATION INCYWCA BOULDER COUNTY: $38,000 · OtherYWCA BOULDER COUNTYEL COMITE DE LONGMONT: $34,000 · OtherEL COMITE DE LONGMONTBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC: $43,000 · Arts & CultureBOULDER COMMUNITY BROA…WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER: $29,500 · Arts & CultureWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM …TEACHING PEACE INC: $48,000 · EducationTEACHING PEACE…WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $41,000 · EnvironmentWILD BEAR NA…WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $25,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S WIL…ATTENTION INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION I…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $26,500 · Food & NutritionRise Against Suicide: $24,000 · HealthVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $11,000 · Civil Rights
Other$113,000Arts & Culture$72,500Education$48,000Environment$41,000Human Services$36,500Food & Nutrition$26,500Health$24,000Civil Rights$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEACHING PEACE INC: $48,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC: $43,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $41,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYWCA BOULDER COUNTY: $38,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEL COMITE DE LONGMONT: $34,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER: $29,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $25,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $24,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetATTENTION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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…Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationAEC TrustThe Colorado Health F…The Edmund T & Eleano…Rose Community Founda…Ray Lanyon FundCollins FoundationBraly Family Foundati…Lynn & Helen N Clark …Emsa Fund Inc
Colorado Gives FoundationCO24.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · AEC Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Ray Lanyon Fund · Collins Foundation · Braly Family Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Emsa Fund Inc

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 Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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