· Public charity
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Tcfso’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Community Foundation 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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY | $9,764 |
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 (FY17–21, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- BCBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue +1%
- IHI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County2× · 2018–2021 · $45k · revenue -21%
- AOACCESS OPPORTUNITY2× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- ECEl Centro AMISTADgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +295%
- MTMOTUS THEATERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +266%
- FFFoundation for Black Entrepreneurshipone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +72%
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.
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…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
The mission of the Urban Leadership Foundation of Colorado is to invest in the development of minority leaders, empower them to serve in the interest of community, and leverage all resources to address the racial, economic, education,…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing
To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Building Bridges equip inclusive leaders with the skills they need to transform divides in their communities. Building Bridges two key program areas are Transform and Shift. Transform brings together diverse young people from Metro Denver…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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.
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds BOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds El Centro AMISTAD ↗
- Who funds MOTUS THEATER ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds Beanstalk Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROBOTICS EXCELLING AT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds SCD ENRICHMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds GROWE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Tcfso 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.