How much did TAKE NOTE COLORADO grant in FY2025?

TAKE NOTE COLORADO reported 2 grants totaling $123,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is TAKE NOTE COLORADO based?

TAKE NOTE COLORADO is based in CO.

TAKE NOTE COLORADO

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· Public charity

TAKE NOTE COLORADO

TAKE NOTE COLORADO is a statewide initiative that builds access to music education opportunities for all youth across colorado.

$123k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$98k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$334kYouth Development$317kEducation$36kHealth$30kHuman Services$10kOther$137k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

createsocial change

2022

healthcreatesocial changearts

2023

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2024

—

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$50k–250k1 grant · $98k

$97,500

Median grant

States reached

$158k

Total assets

Largest grants

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS IN COLORADO$97,500
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO$25,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$664k · 5 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +142% since the first grant, against +108% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$664k

$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+142%

+108%

Still filing today

80%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

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BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS IN COLORADO
3× · 2022–2025 · $317k · revenue +142%
RC
REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
2× · 2021–2022 · $202k · revenue +131%
LK
LITTLE KIDS ROCK
2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +4%

Funded once

YO
YOUTH ON RECORDgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +158%
AP
AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2018 · $40k
BN
BLAST N SCRAPgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +585%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Colorado Music Festival &

To inspire and connect community members of all ages by providing access to the best of the world's music through education and performance.

Arts & Culture

Sound Affects Music

Sound Affects music programming connects professional musicians with underserved adults living in care facilities or at home. Through live performance, one-on-one residencies, and advocacy, Sound Affects meets the needs of those who are…

Arts & Culture

Colorado Jazz Ambassadors

Arts & Culture

Colorado Music Bridge

Colorado Music Bridge provides access to inclusive modern music education programs, curricular resources, and professional development.

Arts & Culture

El Sistema Colorado

El sistema harnesses the joy of music and ignites the potential in our future leaders through an immersive youth music education program that transcends socioeconomic barriers.

Arts & Culture

Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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Off the Hook Arts

Enrich childrens lives thorugh free group music lessons and instruments while enhancing the diversity of music performances in our community through intimate concerts of classical, jazz, and world music.

Arts & Culture

All Ages Music Portland

Friends of Noise is a non-profit organization built on the values of collectivism and restorative justice. We seek to transform the culture of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth access to the music industry. We foster a healthy ecosystem for all ages…

Arts & Culture

Colorado Children's Chorale

The mission of the colorado children's chorale is to share professional choral music with the global community by training excellent young performers.

Arts & Culture

Commusication

Commusication's mission is to amplify young voices and cultivate skills for success through equitable access to music, collaboration, and opportunity.

Arts & Culture

Denver Children's Choir

To inspire and unite children from diverse backgrounds by fostering harmony in music and in life.

Arts & Culture

Colorado Artists in Recovery

Colorado Artists in Recovery utilizes recovery-oriented principles to provide a safe, encouraging, and inclusive environment for people affected by substance use and mental health. Through our workshops and events we nurture their creative…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth On Record and the most unlike its peers is The Matthews House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

11/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$334,267Youth Development$316,915Other$137,295Education$35,500Health$30,000Human Services$10,000

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.

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.

The Denver FoundationCO17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation TAKE NOTE COLORADO 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLAST N SCRAP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862034193 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BLAST N SCRAP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Take Note Colorado?

Find your warmest path to Take Note Colorado through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

TAKE NOTE COLORADO

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Take Note Colorado?

More from the funding graph

TAKE NOTE COLORADO

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Take Note Colorado?

More from the funding graph