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Team Up

We unite and support local organizations and individuals in addressing community-identified needs to help people thrive in southwest colorado.

$541k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of TEAM UP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $378,034 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $540,889 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $162,855 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $254k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO$41,206
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB LA PLATA COUNTY$34,400
HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE$28,066
DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER$20,000
THE POWERHOUSE$18,002
MANNA$17,652
LA PLATA YOUTH SERVICES$16,397
FORT LEWIS COLLEGE GRUB HUB$13,000
THE GRIEF CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CO$12,500
4 THE CHILDREN$12,000
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC$10,285
DURANGO MONTESSORI INC$10,000
SOUTHWEST COLORADO$10,000
RIVERHOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER$10,000
ONWARD A COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$9,577
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SILVERTON FAMILY LEARNING CNT: $7k → 12%SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $13k → 12%SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $10k → 12%RIVERHOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 12%COMPANEROS: $8k → 12%COMPANEROS: $7k → 12%COMPANEROS: $6k → 12%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $24k → 12%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN UTE COMMUNITY: $27k → 12%SOUTHERN UTE COMMUNITY: $21k → 12%SOUTHERN UTE COMMUNITY: $21k → 12%SOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY ACTION: $9k → 12%SOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY ACTION: $6k → 12%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 33 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
11

Total granted

$1.8M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+25%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • DA
    DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +3%
  • LP
    La Plata Youth Services
    8× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +184%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAN JUAN BASIN AREA AGENCY ON AGING INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +19%
  • DP
    DOLORES PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
  • TU
    TEAM UPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +27%

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
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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2
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
3
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
4
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Aia Colorado

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…

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6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
7
San Luis Valley Community Mental Health Center

To provide access to quality behavioral health services that enrich lives and promote wellness. We are driven by a profound respect for human dignity and a desire to serve the underrepresented, the disenfranchised, and those who experience…

Health
8
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

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.

Health
9
San Luis Valley Great Outdoors

At slv go! our mission is to connect people to the outdoors by expanding opportunities for trails, parks, and public lands through community-driven initiatives.

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10
Arc of West Central Colorado

The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…

Human Services
11
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
12
Tu Casa Incorporated

To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Early Childhood Council of La Plata County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oak Tree Youth Resources. 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%10%<5yr16%0%5–10yr23%24%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr9%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%3%<5yr16%0%5–10yr23%11%10–20yr14%37%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr9%19%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
14%
49/353

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

41 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. 41 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC — $202,243 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION — $72,530 · OtherLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITIONAlternative Horizons Corporation — $72,367 · OtherAlternative Horizons CorporationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC — $70,529 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INCHOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE — $70,066 · OtherHOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THEMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $67,015 · OtherMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHENCEAC — $56,031 · OtherCEACSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION — $51,429 · OtherSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION+16 more — $227,710 · Other+16 moreDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER — $136,461 · EducationDURANGO ADULT EDUCA…DURANGO 4-C COUNCIL INC — $82,867 · EducationDURANGO 4-C COUNCIL…ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION — $48,709 · EducationONWARD A LEGACY FOU…Liberty School Inc — $20,431 · EducationLiberty School IncThe Hive DGO — $18,425 · EducationThe Hive DGODurango Montessori Inc — $15,375 · Education+2 more — $15,377 · EducationSOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $105,600 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN COLORAD…Community Connections Inc — $97,832 · Human ServicesCommunity Connec…COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER — $41,262 · Human ServicesCOMPANEROS FOUR …SOUTHWEST COLORADO ACCELERATOR PROG — $22,750 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST COLORA…RIVERHOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $6,505 · Human ServicesLa Plata Youth Services — $112,546 · Crime & Legal4 the Children — $18,250 · Crime & LegalBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC — $94,007 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATION LEGACY — $11,625 · Youth DevelopmentOAK TREE YOUTH RESOURCES — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $26,856 · HealthGrief Center of Southwest Colorado — $24,000 · HealthLocal First Foundation — $15,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC — $6,125 · HealthANIMAS ALANO CLUB — $6,065 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $5,692 · HealthHOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST — $64,541 · Housing & ShelterSouthwest Center for Independence Inc — $13,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$889,920Education$337,645Human Services$283,949Crime & Legal$130,796Youth Development$112,632Health$83,738Housing & Shelter$77,541

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER — $136,461 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetLa Plata Youth Services — $112,546 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $105,600 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Connections Inc — $97,832 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC — $94,007 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetDURANGO 4-C COUNCIL INC — $82,867 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION — $72,530 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAlternative Horizons Corporation — $72,367 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC — $70,529 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $67,015 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST — $64,541 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION — $51,429 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION — $48,709 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER — $41,262 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE — $28,752 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $26,856 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrief Center of Southwest Colorado — $24,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST COLORADO ACCELERATOR PROG — $22,750 over 2y, 34% of budgetLiberty School Inc — $20,431 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDISABLED SPORTS USA - ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC — $18,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Hive DGO — $18,425 over 2y, 3.3% of budget4 the Children — $18,250 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION — $17,025 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDURANGO FOOD BANK — $15,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDurango Montessori Inc — $15,375 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLocal First Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTEAM UP — $13,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSouthwest Center for Independence Inc — $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWomens Resource Center in Durango — $12,760 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY — $11,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Colorado Education Collaborati — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC — $8,906 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSilverton Family Learning Center Inc — $6,505 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC — $6,125 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetANIMAS ALANO CLUB — $6,065 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $5,692 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC — $5,377 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO — $5,335 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Ballantine Family FundColorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Rocky Mountain Health…El Pomar FoundationThoren Family Charita…Westmeath FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…The Moniker FoundationLa Plata Electric Ass…Mile High United Way …
Ballantine Family FundCO55.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ballantine Family Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Westmeath Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · La Plata Electric Association Inc · Mile High United Way 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 Team Up 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%3%10%23%40%your 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
    23report 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

    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.

    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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