· Public charity
The Catholic Foundation No Colorado
The foundation is called by jesus christ: to promote the mission of the church in northern colorado by encouraging financial stewardship; to faithfully steward and distribute funds entrusted to the foundation; and to cooperate with parishes and other catholic organizations to develop additional resources and support.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 196 grants below total $24,102,025 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,779,563 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $677,538 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 $10k38 grants · $232k
- $10k–50k101 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k43 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+14 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Augustine Institute | $5,252,450 |
| St John Paul II High School | $4,697,000 |
| St John Vianney Theological Seminary | $2,371,940 |
| SJV-RM | $1,384,147 |
| Redemptoris Mater Seminary | $637,343 |
| AOD - Archbishop Catholic Appeal | $416,491 |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul - AOD | $390,500 |
| St Anthony Catholic Church | $380,000 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Classical School | $378,779 |
| FOCUS Mission Foundation | $352,500 |
| St Rose of Lima Catholic School | $310,000 |
| Thomas More College of Liberal Arts | $300,000 |
| Central Denver Classical HS (St John Paul the Great) | $298,500 |
| The Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty | $258,500 |
| The Papal Foundation | $190,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
174 repeat relationships — 124 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $762k 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
Augustine Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +321%- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +57%
- WCWyoming Catholic College8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +121%
Funded once
- TCThe Catholic Allianceone grant, 2017 · $1.2M
- SOSHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +27%
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF HELENA MONTANA A CORPORATION SOLEone grant, 2023 · $500k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation No Colorado and the most unlike its peers is The Vine Foundation. 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 80 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
142 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. 142 of the 292 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds The Catholic Alliance ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LAITY AND CLERGY FOR RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Christ in the City ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds BELLA NATURAL WOMEN'S CARE ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF CHARACTER ↗
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: Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado Inc · The Martin Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ztyl Foundation · Knights of Columbus · Fire Foundation of Denver · Considine Family Foundation · Pema Foundation Inc · The Denver 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 organization The Catholic Foundation No 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.
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.