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The Colorado Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$28,773,031
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,773,031
Organizations funded a year
2 to 410
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$548M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Colorado Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$29M0%
FY20232$21M0%
FY20222$18M0%
FY20212$15M100%
FY2020410$14M56%
FY2019358$19Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$13MCommunity Improvement$6.8MHealth$4.1MReligion$3.2MHuman Services$2.7MCivil Rights$1.6MEducation$1.4MYouth Development$449kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Zarlengo Foundation$9,600,89321%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$4,571,802214%
Colorado Health Institute$2,147,054211%
Mile High United Way Inc$1,001,55022%
Episcopal Diocese of Colorado$847,5892n/a
Colorado Episcopal Foundation$691,5331n/a
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition$318,954213%
First Southwest Community Fund$300,00017%
Rural Communities Resource Center$285,029217%
Pcs for People$283,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Colorado Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Zarlengo Foundation$9,600,89321%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$4,571,802214%
Colorado Health Institute$2,147,054211%
Mile High United Way Inc$1,001,55022%
Episcopal Diocese of Colorado$847,5892n/a
Colorado Episcopal Foundation$691,5331n/a
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition$318,954213%
First Southwest Community Fund$300,00017%
Rural Communities Resource Center$285,029217%
Pcs for People$283,0001n/a
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition$278,250210%
Energize Colorado Inc$260,000110%
Tri-County Health Network$245,25426%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc$243,25025%
Together Colorado$232,72927%
Colorado Center on Law and Policy$203,45426%
Colorado Fiscal Institute$199,10429%
Lake County Build a Generation$180,068114%
Grand County Rural Health Network Inc$175,454217%
Center for Health Progress$175,454210%
Manaus$166,10016%
University of Colorado Foundation$159,50020%
Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Inc$155,0001n/a
Colorado People's Alliance$154,60027%
The Foundation for Sustainable Urban Com$145,45422%
Colorado Children's Campaign$137,05423%
Hispanic Affairs Project$133,500215%
United for a New Economy$130,45426%
Full Circle of Lake County Inc$130,454210%
Western Colorado Alliance$128,000213%
Reaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK$121,000232%
Asian Pacific Development Center of COLORADO$120,45424%
Food to Power (Fka Colorado Springs Food Rescue)$120,00024%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County$119,92623%
Mountain Dreamers$118,000144%
Chaffee County$113,0001n/a
Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association$111,65321%
Revision$105,954210%
Citizens Project$105,500247%
The Bell Policy Center$103,50017%
Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship$102,500213%
American Friends Service Committee$96,8701n/a
Relevant Word Ministries$90,0001n/a
Companeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center$88,000217%
Alianza Norco$83,0001n/a
Morgan County Family Center Inc$82,80024%
Community Resource Center Inc$80,20022%
Colorado Urban Leadership Foundation$80,000212%
Western Colorado Food and Agriculture Co$75,454120%
La Puente Home Inc$71,00012%
San Luis Valley Immigrant Resource$67,50028%
Voces Unidas for Justice$62,950110%
Center for African American Health$61,40021%
Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust$60,00029%
Housing Resources of Western Colorado$55,00011%
Im'Unique$55,0002n/a
Warm Cookies of the Revolution$54,800236%
Young African Americans for Social and Political Activism$51,50023%
National Academy of Sciences$50,00020%
Colorado Mesa University Foundation$50,00020%
Vuela for Health$50,00023%
Tri-County Family Care Center Inc$48,00028%
Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center$47,48614%
East Colfax Community Collective$45,0001n/a
Brother Jeff's Cultural Center$45,000115%
Grantmakers in Health$43,10021%
The Good Samaritan Center$41,000125%
Mancos Valley Resources$40,50016%
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged$40,00020%
Soul 2 Soul Sisters$39,10013%
Colorado State University Foundation$37,00020%
New Genesis Inc$35,60023%
Dove's Nest Early Care and Education Center$35,50026%
Village Exchange Center Inc$35,30010%
Western Regional Advocacy Project$35,00026%
Denver Food Rescue$35,00011%
Neighborhood Funders Group$35,00021%
La Clinica Tepeyac$35,00020%
Integrated Community$34,00022%
Montbello 2020$33,5002n/a
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$33,40020%
Philanthropy Colorado$32,4201n/a
One Morgan County$32,4102n/a
Western Colorado Area Health Education Center$31,97424%
Sparrow House Ministries$31,000117%
Neighbor to Neighbor Inc$30,71311%
Clinica Colorado$30,00022%
Community Enterprise Development Services$30,00012%
Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association Inc$30,00024%
La Raza Services Inc$30,00020%
Lift Up of Routt County$29,00021%
Eureka McConnell Science Museum$28,00021%
La Plaza$27,000210%
Denver Public Schools Foundation$27,00010%
Colorado Community College System Foundation$26,2501n/a
Los Pobres$25,70017%
South Park Community Church$25,0001n/a
Keystone Center$25,00011%
Fort Collins Community Action Network$25,00027%
Colorado Nonprofit Association$25,00012%
Inner City Health Center$25,00020%
The Family Resource Center$25,00023%
Kids First Health Care$25,00011%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$25,00010%
Regis University$25,00020%
Project Worthmore$25,00011%
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization$25,000113%
Denver Indian Family Resource Center$25,00012%
International Rescue Committee INC$25,00010%
Globalminded$25,00017%
Family Star Inc$24,20010%
Faith Evangelical Church$24,0001n/a
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation$23,00020%
Volunteers of America Colorado Branch$23,0001n/a
Right to Read of Weld County Inc John Haefeli President$22,50012%
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation$22,00010%
Riverside Educational Center$22,00021%
Food Bank of the Rockies$22,00010%
Mental Health Center of Denver$21,60020%
Chinook Fund Inc$21,00022%
Four Corners Rainbow Youth Center$21,00027%
Colorado Black Health Collaborative$20,50025%
Metrovolunteers$20,00020%
Valley Citizens Foundation for Health Care Inc$20,00020%
Otero College Foundation$20,0002n/a
Pueblo Community Health Center Foundation Inc$20,00025%
Mental Health America of Colorado$20,00021%
Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center$20,00020%
Montrose Foursquare Church$20,0001n/a
Rising Up$20,00012%
Mile High Ministries$20,00020%
Conejos County Clean Water Inc$20,00016%
Community Clinics at Memorial Regional Health$20,00011%
Adams State University Foundation Inc$19,50020%
Community Budget Center$19,00024%
Park Hill Collective Impact$18,00023%
Montrose County School District Re-1j$18,0001n/a
Chinook Center$18,000118%
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc$18,00028%
Gold Crown Foundation$18,00020%
Mountain Family Center$17,50021%
Women's Bean Project$17,00021%
Early Childhood Partnership of Adams Cou$16,41111%
Foothills Unitarian Church$16,0001n/a
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit$16,00011%
Love Inc Of The Yampa Valley$15,500213%
Blanca Tiny Hands Day Care$15,00025%
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network$15,00020%
Denver Delta Inc$15,0001n/a
La Plata Family Centers Coalition$15,00012%
FAMILIES AGAINST VIOLENT ACTS e$15,0001n/a
Mount St Vincent Home Inc$15,00010%
St Anthony Health Foundation$15,0001n/a
Kaleidoscope Project$15,0001n/a
Southeast Behavioral Health Group$15,00010%
Adoption Options$15,00021%
Kuvo Denver Educational Broadcasting$15,0002n/a
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$14,78020%
South Central Colorado Seniors Inc$14,50011%
Queer Asterisk$14,00023%
Interfaith Food Bank$13,500116%
La Cocina$13,00012%
Connections 4 Kids$13,00025%
University of New Mexico Foundation Inc$12,59110%
Street Fraternity Inc$12,50022%
The Learning Council$12,00025%
Mafo Inc$12,00017%
Project VOYCE$12,00011%
Five Smooth Stones Foundation Inc$12,00020%
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc$12,00010%
Denver Indian Health and Family Ser$12,00020%
Arapahoe Community College Foundation Inc$12,00020%
Red Wind Consulting Inc$11,6671n/a
University of Denver$11,20020%
Wings Foundation Inc$11,00021%
Joseph Center$11,0002n/a
Arkansas Valley Resource Center Inc$11,00022%
Reach Pikes Peak$10,75012%
Templo Getsemani$10,5001n/a
San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Karis Inc$10,00010%
Youth on Record$10,00011%
Quality Health Network$10,00010%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$10,0001n/a
Colorado Sickle Cell Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Las Animas Helping Hands$10,0001n/a
Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable$10,00011%
Focus Points Family Resource Center$10,00010%
Four Corners Alliance for Diversity$10,0001n/a
Young Americans Center for Financial Education$10,00010%
Alliance for Choice in Education$10,00010%
Wedontwaste Inc$10,00020%
Lutheran Medical Center Foundation$10,00010%
Olathe Community Clinic Inc$10,00010%
The Art Center of Western Colorado Inc$10,00012%
Colorado Bar Foundation$10,00023%
Basin Clinic Inc$10,00011%
Inspiration Field$10,00020%
Colorado Coalition$10,0001n/a
La Plata Youth Services$10,00011%
Samaritan Counseling Center$10,00020%
Sierra Grande High Scholarship Foundation Inc$10,000127%
Community Food Bank$10,00011%
Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities Inc$10,0001n/a
Community Pay It Forward Club$10,0001n/a
Renew Respite$10,0001n/a
Good Samaritan Clinic of Western Colorado Inc$10,000118%
Colorado Fraternal Order of Police Public Safety Awareness Foundation$10,00019%
Friendly Harbor$10,00022%
The Hadanou Collective$10,0001n/a
Pennock Center for Counseling$10,00013%
Cooperating Ministry of Logan County$10,00011%
Trailhead Institute$10,00010%
Safehouse Denver Inc$10,00010%
Life Inter Faith Team on Unemployment and Poverty$9,50010%
West End Family Link Center$9,50022%
SparkHope Automotive$9,05020%
Northwest Colorado Center for Independence Inc$9,00011%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc$9,00020%
Flatirons Community Church$8,9002n/a
Conservation Colorado Education Fund$8,00010%
Hope House of Colorado$8,00010%
Housing Solutions for the Southwest$8,00010%
Summit County Resource Center Dba Family & Intercultural Resource Center$8,00010%
Make A Chess Move$8,00022%
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Educational and Charitable Foundation Inc$7,50011%
Grand Beginnings$7,50011%
Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores$7,50011%
Cloud City Conservation Center$7,50015%
Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart Inc$7,0001n/a
Homeward Bound of the Grand Valley$7,00010%
Care and Share Inc$7,00020%
Alpine Achievers Initiative$7,00021%
Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc$7,00010%
The Cycle Effect$7,00011%
Moffat County United Way$7,00021%
Chaffee Housing Trust$7,00011%
Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen$6,50020%
Cape Cares Central American Relief Efforts Inc$6,00024%
Community Partnership for Child Development$6,00020%
River Bridge Regional Center Inc$6,00020%
Clear Creek Rock House$6,00021%
The American Himalayan Foundation$6,00020%
Nourish Colorado$6,00020%
Poudre River Friends of the Library$5,5001n/a
Center for Restorative Programs$5,50011%
Gunnison Country Food Pantry Inc$5,50011%
El Centro AMISTAD$5,49011%
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation$5,0001n/a
San Luis Valley Great Outdoors$5,00011%
Tu Casa Incorporated$5,00011%
Mt Carmel Wellness & Community Center$5,00011%
Pikeride Inc$5,00011%
Filipino-American Community of Colorado$5,0001n/a
Costilla County Economic Development Council Inc$5,00012%
Urban League of Metropolitan Denver$5,0001n/a
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Chaffee Cares$5,0001n/a
Urbanites Leading Pikes Peak Reg Inc$5,000110%
Antonito Senior Citizens Association$5,0001n/a
The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc$5,00010%
Tri-County Health Department$5,0001n/a
Urban Peak Denver$5,00010%
Southeast Mental Health Services$5,00010%
Lajunta Associated Charities Inc$5,0001n/a
First United Methodist Church of Fountain$5,0001n/a
Castle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force$5,00020%
Great Education Colorado$5,00011%
San Luis Valley Housing Coalition Inc$5,00012%
Ouray County Food Pantry$5,0001n/a
Suicide Prevention Coalition of Eagle Valley$5,00011%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley Inc$5,00010%
Yuma Museum$5,0001n/a
Crosspurpose$5,00020%
Alta Vista Center for Autism$5,00010%
Struggle of Love Foundation$5,00011%
Second Chance Center Inc$5,00010%
Southwest Center for Independence Inc$5,00010%
Voces Unidas de Las Montanas$4,52510%
Dove Creek Care and Share Food Pantry$4,4001n/a
United Service Organizations Inc$4,00020%
Community Foundation of San Luis Valley$4,0002n/a
Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc$4,00010%
Denver Audubon$4,00020%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$4,00010%
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order Inc$4,0002n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$3,9501n/a
Mudra Dance Studio$3,7501n/a
Mile High Montessori Early Learning Cent$3,60020%
Pueblo Community Soup Kitchen$3,50012%
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights$3,50020%
Pueblo Department of Public Health & Environment$3,5001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$3,42010%
Warren Village Inc$3,40020%
Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc$3,20010%
Fremont Adventure Recreation$3,20012%
Central Visitation Program$3,20020%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$3,00010%
Truckers Against Trafficking$3,00010%
Emergency Family Assistance Association$3,00010%
Project Angel Heart$3,00010%
Denver Public Library Friends Foundation$3,00010%
Denver Dumb Friends League$3,00010%
Freedom Service Dogs Inc$3,00010%
Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8$3,0001n/a
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children$3,00020%
Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center$3,00010%
Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc$3,00010%
Good Business Colorado$3,00011%
Montbello Organizing Committee$3,00010%
The Center for Social Creativity$3,0001n/a
Sacred Heart House of Denver$3,0001n/a
San Luis Valley Development Resources Group$3,00010%
Early Childhood Council for Yuma Washington & Kit Carson Counties$3,00011%
Queens Legacy Foundation$3,0001n/a
El Concilio-Adobe de Oro Inc$3,0001n/a
5 Loaves Pantry$3,0001n/a
Blue Peaks Developmental Services Inc$3,00010%
Hunger Free Colorado$3,00010%
Pueblo City-County Library District$3,00010%
Denver Area Youth Services$3,00010%
Harvey Park Community Organization$3,000118%
Telluride AIDS Benefit Inc$3,00011%
First Nations Development Institute$3,00010%
Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation$3,00011%
Habitat for Humanity of Pueblo Inc$2,50011%
Cultivando$2,50010%
Interfaith Network on Mental Illness$2,5001n/a
Hey Neighbor$2,50011%
Center For Immigrants and Immigration Se$2,50011%
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative$2,5001n/a
Loaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County Inc$2,50010%
Custer Cty Community Sharing Center Inc$2,50012%
Grand Futures Prevention Coalition$2,50011%
Westwood Unidos$2,50011%
River Center of New Castle Inc$2,50010%
Prairie Family Center$2,49511%
Aurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center Inc$2,46510%
Denver Rescue Mission$2,40020%
Providence Bible Church Inc$2,2002n/a
Open Up Inc dba Providence HomeShare dba Providence HomeShare$2,20011%
North Side High School Alumni Scholarship Foundati$2,11020%
Vive$2,0001n/a
100 Men Who Cook$2,00012%
Western Colorado Migrant and Rural Coalition$2,0001n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$2,00010%
Red Ribbon Project$2,00021%
Urban Outreach Denver$2,00012%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chaffee County$2,0002n/a
Samaritan Institute Inc$2,00020%
National Hispanic Institute Inc$2,00010%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo Inc$2,00010%
Senior Citizens Action Group$2,00013%
New Dance Theatre Inc$2,00010%
Girl Scouts of Colorado$2,00010%
Brent Eley Foundation$2,00010%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc$1,70020%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$1,65010%
For the Love of Grace$1,5001n/a
Aspen Homeless Shelter$1,50010%
Community Care Collective$1,50011%
Grand Valley Park Association$1,5001n/a
Eagle River Youth Coalition Inc Dba Mountain Youth$1,50010%
The African-American Historical and Genealogical Society of Colorado S$1,5001n/a
Latina SafeHouse Initiative$1,50010%
Connections 4 Life Center$1,50011%
Veterans Community Project$1,50010%
The Growhaus$1,50010%
One Body Ent$1,5001n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Pueblo Colorado$1,50010%
Ormao Dance Company Inc$1,5001n/a
Lichen Health$1,5001n/a
Kids on Bikes Inc$1,50011%
Boulder Pride$1,50010%
Athletics & Beyond$1,50011%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$1,40010%
Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgend Community Center of Colorado$1,26610%
Lower Valley Hospital Association$1,20010%
American University$1,12420%
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado$1,00010%
350 Colorado$1,00010%
Sexual Assault Services Organization$1,00010%
Yampa Valley Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc$1,0001n/a
People for Care and Learning$1,00010%
Pueblo Rescue Mission$1,00010%
Heifer International Foundation$1,00010%
Health Solutions$1,00010%
Canterbury Collective Inc$1,0001n/a
Metro Caring$1,00010%
The Colorado College$1,00020%
High Valley Community Center Inc$1,00010%
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc$1,00010%
Fort Morgan Foursquare Church$1,0002n/a
Rio Grande Child Development and Family Services$1,00010%
White Forest Sangha Inc$1,0001n/a
Midwestern Colorado Mental Health Center$1,00010%
Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center$1,00010%
Alliance Against Domestic Abuse$1,00020%
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Denver$1,00010%
Transformative Freedom Fund$1,0001n/a
Summit Education Foundation$1,0001n/a
Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc$1,00020%
Halo Community Outreach$1,0001n/a
Open Door Ministries$1,0001n/a
Casa of the Ninth$1,00011%
Veterans Future Foundation$1,00010%
Bayaud Enterprises Inc$1,00010%
Thousand Currents$1,00010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$1,00010%
Ksun Community Radio$1,0001n/a
4 Colorado Kids$1,0001n/a
2Hearts$96021%
Heritage Church$9001n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc$80020%
Justice Cry Inc$7501n/a
Lockwood Foundation$75011%
One Fair Wage Inc$65010%
National Women's Law Center$65010%
Equal Justice Initiative$65010%
Denver Language School$6001n/a
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$60010%
Sun Valley Youth Center Inc$60010%
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collec$60010%
The Sentencing Project$60010%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$58010%
Full Circle Restorative Justice$50011%
Dry Bones Denver$50010%
Arrupe Jesuit High School$5001n/a
ACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc$50010%
Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/A Hope$50010%
Morgan Strong Inc$50010%
Salida United Methodist Church$5001n/a
El Paso Fountain Valley Senior Citizen Program$50010%
Autism Society of Colorado$50011%
University of Hawaii Foundation$50020%
Junior League of Denver Foundation$50010%
Young Life$50010%
UpRoot Colorado$50010%
Together Rising$50010%
Northstar Advocacy Center$50010%
The Denver Rotary Club Foundation$50010%
Hospice of the Valley Inc$50010%
Kids at Their Best Inc$50010%
Heart of Boardwalk$48010%
THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE$44010%
Parkinson Association of the Rockies$40010%
The Family Centerla Familia$40010%
Jefferson Center for Mental Health$40010%
Words Without Borders Inc$40020%
Episcopal Relief and Development$40010%
Kcrw Foundation Inc$36010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$30010%
Colorado Water Trust$30020%
Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts$21310%
Rainforest Action Network$20010%
Mana Maoli$20010%
Denver Kids Inc$2001n/a
Nazarene Theological Seminary$2001n/a
Alaska Wildlife Alliance$20010%
National Ovarian Cancer Coalition Inc$20010%
High Country News$20010%
The Privilege Institute Inc$20010%
PEO Foundation$2001n/a
Western Resource Advocates$17020%
Hospice of Metro Denver Inc$15010%
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Colorado$1501n/a
Longmont Humane Society Inc$13020%
Friends of the Longmont Public Library$13020%
Mpowered$10010%
Rocky Mountain Conservancy$10020%
University of Utah$1001n/a
American Brain Tumor Association$701n/a
Als United Rocky Mountain$6010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$5010%
Old Friends Senior Dogs Inc$5010%
Curepsp Inc$5010%

Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($85M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Colorado Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZarlengo Foundation: $9,600,893 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $4,571,802 over 2y, 14% of budgetColorado Health Institute: $2,147,054 over 2y, 11% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $1,001,550 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetColorado Cross Disability Coalition: $318,954 over 2y, 13% of budgetFirst Southwest Community Fund: $300,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRural Communities Resource Center: $285,029 over 2y, 17% of budgetColorado Immigrant Rights Coalition: $278,250 over 2y, 10% of budgetEnergize Colorado Inc: $260,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTri-County Health Network: $245,254 over 2y, 6.1% of budget9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc: $243,250 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTogether Colorado: $232,729 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetColorado Center on Law and Policy: $203,454 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetColorado Fiscal Institute: $199,104 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetLake County Build a Generation: $180,068 over 1y, 14% of budgetGrand County Rural Health Network Inc: $175,454 over 2y, 17% of budgetCenter for Health Progress: $175,454 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetManaus: $166,100 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $159,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado People's Alliance: $154,600 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetThe Foundation for Sustainable Urban Com: $145,454 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetColorado Children's Campaign: $137,054 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHispanic Affairs Project: $133,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetUnited for a New Economy: $130,454 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetFull Circle of Lake County Inc: $130,454 over 2y, 10% of budgetWestern Colorado Alliance: $128,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetReaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK: $121,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetAsian Pacific Development Center of COLORADO: $120,454 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFood to Power (Fka Colorado Springs Food Rescue): $120,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County: $119,926 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMountain Dreamers: $118,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetNorthwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association: $111,653 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRevision: $105,954 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCitizens Project: $105,500 over 2y, 47% of budgetThe Bell Policy Center: $103,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $102,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetCompaneros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center: $88,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMorgan County Family Center Inc: $82,800 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Resource Center Inc: $80,200 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetColorado Urban Leadership Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWestern Colorado Food and Agriculture Co: $75,454 over 1y, 20% of budgetLa Puente Home Inc: $71,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSan Luis Valley Immigrant Resource: $67,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetVoces Unidas for Justice: $62,950 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $61,400 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSeeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $60,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetHousing Resources of Western Colorado: $55,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWarm Cookies of the Revolution: $54,800 over 2y, 36% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Colorado Health FoundationCO228.8× affinity231 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Trailhead Institute · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Colorado Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Colorado Trust 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.

About The Colorado Trust

How much does The Colorado Trust give?
The Colorado Trust reported 2 grants totaling $28,773,733 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 410 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Colorado Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (11%), Community Improvement (6%), Health (4%).
Who are The Colorado Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Zarlengo Foundation ($9.6M), The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center ($4.6M), Colorado Health Institute ($2.1M).
Does The Colorado Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Colorado Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Colorado Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Colorado Health Foundation, Caring for Colorado Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is The Colorado Trust based?
The Colorado Trust is based in CO.

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 607 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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