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$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$146kEducation$114kInternational$99kHuman Services$73kHealth$67kAnimals$37kPhilanthropy$29kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFELINE PUPPY RESCUE$10,000
LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $18k → 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.
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 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 Healing Fund

Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Grief Center of Southwest Colorado

Grief support to those who have lost a loved one.

Health
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
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.

Human Services
7
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
12
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center; the most unlike its peers is Lifeline Pet Rescue. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $146,250 · Food & NutritionTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD B…GOLDEN ROTARY FOUNDATION: $99,300 · PhilanthropyGOLDEN ROTARY FOUNDATIONCANDID: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCANDIDWalk with Me: $19,400 · PhilanthropyWalk with MeRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $114,000 · OtherRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND…LILY GRACE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · OtherJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $8,000 · OtherRalston House: $17,500 · OtherRalston HouseSECOND WIND FUND INC: $17,500 · OtherSECOND WIND FUND INCA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $10,000 · OtherA Sanctuary for Military Families…Robbies Hope Foundation: $19,655 · HealthRobbies H…JEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $19,400 · HealthJEFFERSON…LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLUTHERAN …PORCHLIGHT A FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Crime & LegalFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $27,400 · AnimalsLIFELINE PET RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $18,000 · Human Services
Food & Nutrition$146,250Philanthropy$138,700Other$176,000Health$49,055Crime & Legal$37,500Animals$37,400Human Services$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $146,250 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $114,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $27,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPORCHLIGHT A FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCANDID: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRobbies Hope Foundation: $19,655 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetWalk with Me: $19,400 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $19,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRalston House: $17,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC: $17,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationDwb Family FoundationThe Janus Henderson F…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationThe Phyllis M Coors F…The Denver Children's…Chc Creating Healthie…Anschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO33.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Dwb Family Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Phyllis M Coors Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Chc Creating Healthier Communities · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way 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 Foundation at Rolling Hills funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation at Rolling Hills. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $53k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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