· Community foundation
Community Foundation Boulder County
Cfbc nurtures and activates the ideas, generosity, and leadership of the community to galvanize resources and support equitable solutions for all who live/work in boulder county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 281 grants below total $14,082,609 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,074,135 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $991,526 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 $10k60 grants · $428k
- $10k–50k174 grants · $3.7M
- $50k–250k44 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND | $5,275,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO | $461,080 |
| BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $406,500 |
| SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEUR | $225,000 |
| THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE | $209,740 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $184,357 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUALITY | $163,280 |
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIA | $160,469 |
| CLINICA CAMPESINA FAMILY HEALTH SER | $126,330 |
| BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $116,317 |
| IMPACT ON EDUCATION | $116,096 |
| UNITED POLICYHOLDERS | $115,000 |
| MACKINTOSH ACADEMY BOULDER | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL PARKS INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
344 repeat relationships — 190 still active in FY2024, 154 since wound down; 77 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- IDIMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $23M · revenue +491% · 93% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +88%
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +105%
Funded once
- COCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCEone grant, 2021 · $991k · revenue -39%
- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $781k · revenue +85%
- AIALLFED INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $721k · revenue -80% · 28% of their budget
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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…
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Raabe Family Dentistry Charitable 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 25 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
695 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. 695 of the 757 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 IMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLFED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ON EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds BOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds United Policyholders ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CLINICA CAMPESINA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Watson Institute ↗
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: The Longmont Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · AEC Trust · Emsa Fund Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Brett Family Foundation · Collins Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado 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 Community Foundation Boulder County 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.
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.