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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $702
  • $250k+1 grant · $29M
$28,773,031
Median grant
1
States reached
$548M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE DETAIL OF RECIPIENTS$28,773,031
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION FROM PASS THROUGH ENTITIES$702
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 (FY19–20, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $6k → 10%Hispanic Affairs Project: $128k → 14%First Southwest Community Fund: $300k → 17%United for a New Economy: $100k → 6%Asian Pacific Development Center: $80k → 8%Reaching Out to Community and Kids: $88k → 9%Las Animas Helping Hands: $10k → 27%Im'Unique: $50k → 6%Asian Pacific Development Center: $40k → 8%Reaching Out to Community and Kids: $33k → 9%Morgan County Family Center Inc: $51k → 12%Dove's Nest: $20k → 13%United for a New Economy: $30k → 6%Village Exchange Center: $35k → 8%Morgan County Family Center Inc: $30k → 12%Dove's Nest: $16k → 13%Integrated Community: $30k → 23%Western Regional Advocacy Project: $20k → 12%South-Central Colorado Seniors Inc: $15k → 17%Mile High Ministries: $15k → 12%Project Worthmore: $25k → 8%Western Regional Advocacy Project: $15k → 12%Community Enterprise Development Services: $30k → 8%Family Resource Center: $15k → 10%Family Resource Center: $10k → 10%Hope House of Colorado: $8k → 7%COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIE: $10k → 12%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc: $7k → 11%Joseph Center: $6k → 11%Denver Indian Health and Family Services Inc: $7k → 12%Los Pobres Inc: $26k → 15%Rural Communities Resource Center: $223k → 9%Rural Communities Resource Center: $62k → 9%Summit County Family Resource Center: $8k → 12%Child & Migrant Services: $25k → 11%Adoption Options: $10k → 12%Denver Indian Family Resource Center: $25k → 12%Lift Up of Routt County: $25k → 12%Safehouse Denver Inc: $10k → 12%Fort Collins Community Action Network: $17k → 12%Fort Collins Community Action Network: $8k → 12%Colorado People's Alliance: $134k → 12%Tri-County Family Care Center Inc: $40k → 12%Colorado People's Alliance: $21k → 12%Tri-County Family Care Center Inc: $8k → 12%Companeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center: $85k → 12%PCs for People: $283k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $10k → 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

AK
VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109M · 182 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

182 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 180 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

182
408

Total granted

$109M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+34%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • ZF
    Zarlengo Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $9.6M · revenue +128%
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $4.6M · revenue +23%
  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CE
    COLORADO EPISCOPAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $692k
  • CE
    CNDC Eval Grant 12312020
    one grant, 2020 · $358k
  • FS
    FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -65%
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
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
2
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
3
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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4
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
5
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
6
Colorado Digital Health

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

Health
7
Colorado Thrives

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

Community Improvement
8
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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9
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
10
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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11
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council

Cbhc's mission is to support community resilience, guide behavioral health innovation, and enhance individual well-being throughout colorado by supporting colorado's community behavioral health safety net providers.

Health
12
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Im'unique. 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

439 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 439 of the 607 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
170
Early backer (in before they grew)
413/439
Grantees still filing
327/439
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE DETAIL OF RECIPIENTS: $82,435,307 · OtherSEE DETAIL OF RECIPIENTS+93 more: $7,558,329 · Other+93 moreZarlengo Foundation: $9,600,893 · PhilanthropyZarlengo Fou…IMPACT CHARITABLE: $1,003,050 · PhilanthropyIMPACT CHARI…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,001,550 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UN…THE DENVER FOUNDATION: $528,000 · Philanthropy+11 more: $375,100 · PhilanthropyTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $4,571,802 · Community ImprovementENERGIZE COLORADO INC: $260,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER COLORADO: $232,729 · Community Improvement+13 more: $1,175,712 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $2,147,054 · HealthTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $245,254 · HealthGRAND COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $175,454 · HealthCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS: $175,454 · HealthNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $111,653 · Health+15 more: $380,100 · HealthFIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $300,000 · Human ServicesRural Communities Resource Center: $285,029 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLE: $283,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $154,600 · Human ServicesHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $133,500 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $130,454 · Human ServicesReaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK: $121,000 · Human ServicesAsian Pacific Development Center of COLORADO: $120,454 · Human ServicesCitizens Project: $105,500 · Human ServicesCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $88,000 · Human ServicesMORGAN COUNTY FAMILY CENTER INC: $82,800 · Human Services+20 more: $590,500 · Human ServicesLAKE COUNTY BUILD A GENERATION: $180,068 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $159,500 · EducationCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $26,250 · EducationREGIS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationGLOBALMINDED: $25,000 · EducationFAMILY STAR INC: $24,200 · Education+7 more: $117,502 · EducationCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $278,250 · Civil RightsMOUNTAIN DREAMERS: $118,000 · Civil RightsTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $103,500 · Civil RightsALIANZA NORCO: $83,000 · Civil RightsYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism: $51,500 · Civil RightsMancos Valley Resources: $40,500 · Civil Rights+2 more: $33,000 · Civil Rights
Other$89,993,636Philanthropy$12,508,593Community Improvement$6,240,243Health$3,234,969Human Services$2,394,837Education$724,520Civil Rights$707,750

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%$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 budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE: $1,003,050 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,001,550 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $528,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $112,531 over 2y, 2.6% 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 budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $98,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 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.

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 F…Caring for Colorado F…Anschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationTrailhead InstituteThe Women's Foundatio…Caring for Colorado C…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Rocky Mountain Health…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
88report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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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