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The Colorado Health Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102M
Granted FY2024still arriving
684
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$256MEducation$100MHuman Services$84MCommunity Improvement$72MPhilanthropy$53MHousing & Shelter$50MYouth Development$44MCivil Rights$37MOther$0
02FY2024 · 684 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k179 grants · $619k
  • $10k–50k80 grants · $1.8M
  • $50k–250k325 grants · $38M
  • $250k+100 grants · $62M
$80,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$1,500,000
COLORADO DIGITAL HEALTH DBA PRIME HEALTH$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $66.5M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $2.0M → 16%INTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $835k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PUEBLO: $355k → 15%SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1.5M → 9%COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $1.1M → 12%HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $1.1M → 12%SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1.0M → 9%FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $550k → 17%SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $690k → 9%DENVER INDIAN CENTER: $1.2M → 12%THE PINON PROJECT: $1.8M → 15%HIGHER LEARNING U INC: $325k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $1.4M → 10%DENVER INDIAN CENTER: $352k → 12%COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES: $1.6M → 8%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $1.5M → 8%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $986k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $807k → 8%COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $750k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $692k → 8%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $365k → 7%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $485k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $1.9M → 10%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $485k → 8%RESTORATION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $1.5M → 10%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $423k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $410k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $353k → 10%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $405k → 8%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $355k → 8%ASIAN PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $338k → 8%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $1.4M → 10%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $1.4M → 10%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $436k → 10%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $404k → 10%SILVER KEY: $400k → 9%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $350k → 10%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $3.3M → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $1.8M → 12%HOPE CENTER: $358k → 12%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $359k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $3.3M → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $333k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $1.0M → 12%HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $960k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $520k → 12%DENVER INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $506k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $457k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$712M · 1110 repeat orgs$66M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1110
699

Total granted

$712M
$51M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+18%

Still filing today

72%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TI
    TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +227% · 29% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +79%
  • EC
    ELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    4× · 2017–2023 · $10M · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +6%
  • Social Finance Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +8%
  • CD
    CO Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
    one grant, 2017 · $1.4M
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
3
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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4
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
5
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
6
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
7
Colorado People's Action

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…

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8
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
9
Colorado Press Association

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…

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10
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
11
Destination Colorado Meetings

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…

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12
Colorado East Community Action Agency

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

1286 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1286 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

258
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
456
Early backer (in before they grew)
1232/1286
Grantees still filing
899/1286
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE: $15,257,426 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICEELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000,000 · Other+95 more: $191,945,125 · Other+95 moreTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $17,277,434 · HealthTRAILHEAD INSTITUT…COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $6,848,851 · HealthCOLORADO HEALTH IN…MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $4,040,616 · HealthVALLEY-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $3,917,494 · HealthCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $3,743,083 · HealthSOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $3,415,800 · Health+26 more: $45,787,498 · Health+26 moreFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $8,491,667 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOUR…THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $6,699,107 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S F…Second Chance Center Inc: $5,491,040 · Human ServicesSecond Chance…UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $4,667,400 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A …TIDES CENTER: $4,005,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION: $3,372,150 · Human ServicesSOLID ROCK CO…COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $2,502,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $2,354,509 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES INC: $2,309,100 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE: $2,234,336 · Human ServicesThe Pinon Project: $2,217,454 · Human Services+11 more: $16,869,275 · Human Services+11 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $14,281,138 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $7,920,230 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…Montbello Organizing Committee: $4,977,800 · EducationMontbello Or…THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $4,863,530 · EducationTHE HADANOU …RISE COLORADO: $2,913,900 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,635,409 · EducationTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,456,898 · EducationLAKE COUNTY BUILD A GENERATION: $2,409,400 · Education+11 more: $15,145,857 · Education+11 moreNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: $5,978,925 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5,201,744 · Community ImprovementCULTIVANDO: $3,893,926 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health: $2,858,610 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $2,506,500 · Community ImprovementEast Colfax Community Collective: $2,010,580 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE: $1,665,150 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER COLORADO: $1,622,300 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRING: $1,596,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $1,573,500 · Community ImprovementURBAN LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,357,300 · Community ImprovementTHE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN COM: $1,329,951 · Community ImprovementGES COALITION INC: $1,200,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $6,733,076 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $5,625,376 · PhilanthropyCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $5,060,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation: $4,052,884 · PhilanthropyBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $3,173,270 · PhilanthropyIMPACT CHARITABLE: $2,622,949 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,968,047 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $1,750,050 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365: $1,667,353 · PhilanthropyCHINOOK FUND INC: $1,573,114 · PhilanthropyLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $13,611,065 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $3,725,786 · Arts & CultureUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $2,140,000 · Arts & CultureSU TEATRO INC: $1,970,360 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO ASIAN CULTURE AND EDUCATION NETWORK: $1,482,050 · Arts & CultureRedline: $1,382,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$217,202,551Health$85,030,776Human Services$61,213,038Education$57,604,162Community Improvement$34,794,486Philanthropy$34,226,119Arts & Culture$24,311,261

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $17,277,434 over 8y, 29% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $14,281,138 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $13,611,065 over 8y, 75% of budgetELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $8,491,667 over 4y, 44% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $7,920,230 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $6,848,851 over 8y, 45% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $6,733,076 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $6,699,107 over 8y, 41% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $6,665,956 over 8y, 15% of budgetNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: $5,978,925 over 5y, 11% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $5,625,376 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetSecond Chance Center Inc: $5,491,040 over 7y, 33% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5,201,744 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND: $5,060,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetMontbello Organizing Committee: $4,977,800 over 7y, 59% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $4,863,530 over 6y, 42% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $4,667,400 over 8y, 42% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $4,052,884 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS: $4,040,616 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $4,005,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKABOOM INC: $3,953,111 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetVALLEY-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $3,917,494 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetCULTIVANDO: $3,893,926 over 8y, 66% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $3,743,083 over 8y, 31% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $3,725,786 over 5y, 25% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FIRM: $3,650,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $3,415,800 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION: $3,372,150 over 6y, 90% of budgetCHAFFEE HOUSING TRUST: $3,286,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $3,173,270 over 6y, 10% of budgetProject VOYCE: $3,084,390 over 8y, 69% of budgetPARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST: $3,000,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $2,923,484 over 8y, 26% of budgetRISE COLORADO: $2,913,900 over 7y, 65% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $2,858,610 over 7y, 45% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO: $2,752,144 over 3y, 82% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $2,748,321 over 7y, 50% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,635,409 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE: $2,622,949 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetNeighborWorks Housing Services of Pueblo Inc: $2,601,000 over 6y, 49% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $2,520,107 over 8y, 11% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $2,506,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $2,502,000 over 8y, 50% of budgetCLINICA CAMPESINA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES: $2,489,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE: $2,462,971 over 6y, 39% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN COLORADO INC: $2,461,154 over 6y, 71% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,456,898 over 3y, 9.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Caring for Colorado F…The Colorado TrustRose Community Founda…Caring for Denver Fou…Caring for Colorado C…The Women's Foundatio…Anschutz Family Found…Latino Community Foun…The Denver FoundationEl Pomar FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…Delta Dental Plan of …
Caring for Colorado FoundationCO256.9× affinity253 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Colorado Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Colorado Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
95report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home