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Tcfso

To serve as the supporting organization for the benefit of, or to perform the functions of, community foundation boulder county, a colorado non-profit organization.

$10k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
3
Organizations funded FY2021
33%
First-time grantees FY2021
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100% of Tcfso’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
10
’18
5
’19
3
’20
3
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$9,764
Largest grant, FY2022
$9,764
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$167k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 33% of the organizations Tcfso funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20213$100k33%
FY20203$25k100%
FY20195$33k100%
FY201810$226k90%
FY20173$135kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$3.2MHealth$250kEducation$112kArts & Culture$46kHuman Services$43kCommunity Improvement$18kFood & Nutrition$18kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tcfso supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoulder Community Health Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAccess Opportunity: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBoulder Historical Society Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEl Centro AMISTAD: $11,891 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMotus Theater: $10,815 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $10,401 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBridge House: $10,189 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBeanstalk Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEmergency Family Assistance Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOutreach United Resource Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Robotics Excelling at Science and Technology Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBoulder Food Rescue: $7,905 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBarton Institute for Community Action: $7,836 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScd Enrichment Program: $6,574 over 1y, 23% of budgetWomen's Wilderness Institute: $6,221 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBoulder Pride: $6,139 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGrowe Foundation: $5,235 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFamily Learning Center: $5,134 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Longmont Community Foundation · AEC Trust · United Way of Larimer County · Xcel Energy Foundation · Boulder Valley Rotary Community Foundation · 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.

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About Tcfso

How much does Tcfso give?
Tcfso reported 1 grants totaling $9,764 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Tcfso fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (86%), Health (7%), Education (3%).
Who are Tcfso's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Boulder Community Health Foundation ($250k), I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ($45k), Access Opportunity ($40k).
Does Tcfso fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tcfso?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Tcfso based?
Tcfso is based in CO.

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 26 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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