· Private foundation
The Colorado Health Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k179 grants · $619k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k325 grants · $38M
- $250k+100 grants · $62M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE | $2,952,040 |
| COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT | $2,150,000 |
| DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION | $2,050,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000,000 |
| RURAL HOMES | $2,000,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO | $1,739,097 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $1,677,121 |
| THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE | $1,650,000 |
| CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND | $1,555,000 |
| COLORADO DIGITAL HEALTH DBA PRIME HEALTH | $1,500,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $1,500,000 |
| GES COALITION | $1,200,000 |
| THE DENVER FOUNDATION | $1,147,580 |
| CLINICA FAMILY HEALTH | $1,075,000 |
| SALUD FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS | $1,000,000 |
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, $66.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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 +54% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
1110 repeat relationships — 506 still active in FY2024, 604 since wound down; 162 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
- TITRAILHEAD INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +227% · 29% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +79%
- ECELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST4× · 2017–2023 · $10M · revenue +90%
Funded once
Social Finance Incone grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +8%
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +6%- CDCO Department of Health Care Policy and Financingone grant, 2017 · $1.4M
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.
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…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
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…
Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.
a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…
To stabilize families living in poverty in the rural colorado counties of cheyenne, elbert, kit carson and lincoln, and to move them out of poverty through education, programs, and collaborations with other agencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Silverback Volleyball Club. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
1285 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. 1285 of the 2,000 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 TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Montbello Organizing Committee ↗
- Who funds THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVANDO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FIRM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
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: Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Rose Community Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation 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 The Colorado Health Foundation 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
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.