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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $179,150 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,775 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,625 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised 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
BICYCLE COLORADO$20,000
ACTIVE 4 ALL FOUNDATION$20,000
CLEAR CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$20,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION$16,000
COLORADO HS CYCLING LEAGUE$14,000
PEO INTERNATIONAL$13,450
LUCKY TO RIDE$12,500
ELEVATEHER COLORADO$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CHAFFEE COUNTY$10,000
GOALS YOUTH RIVER EXPEDITIONS$9,000
OVATION WEST PERFORMING ARTS$6,000
SALIDA MOUNTAIN TRAILS$6,000
CONIFER KIWANIS$6,000
BLUE SPRUCE EVERGREEN KIWANIS FNDTN$5,500
INTO YOUR HANDS AFRICA$5,500
02The need
03

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 (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 your 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

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.

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you 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

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

  • CM
    Colorado Mountain Bike Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $141k · revenue +26%
  • 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%
  • MC
    MESA COUNTY ELECTIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k

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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bicycle Colorado and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%15%5–10yr19%42%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr12%8%35–55yr13%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr18%48%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr13%4%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
13%
1,924/14,500

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
14/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · OtherDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherBootstraps Inc — $10,000 · Other+14 more — $86,634 · Other+14 moreCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE — $139,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO HIGH SCHOO…elevateHER — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentelevateHERBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…BICYCLE 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetelevateHER — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetVail Valley Mountain Bike Association — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBootstraps Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetFront Rangers Cycling Club Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands — $5,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIL AIR PATROL FOUNDATION — $5,200 over 1y, 80% of budget
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.

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

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 Shift Events 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your 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

    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.

    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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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