· Private foundation
The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARLY CONNECTIONS | $10,000 |
| CARE & SHARE | $10,000 |
| Chamber Orchestra Of The Springs | $8,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $8,000 |
| WESTSIDE CARES | $7,500 |
| Colorado Springs Pro Housing | $7,000 |
| Cool Science | $5,000 |
| Tri Lakes Cares | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| PROJECT DIAKONIA | $5,000 |
| Partners In Housing | $5,000 |
| DREAM CENTERS | $5,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| ATLAS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| Penrose St Francis Health | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
Care and Share Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +36%- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +32%
- WCWESTSIDE CARES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TATHE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO Sone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- TMTHE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
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…
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
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.
Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.
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…
The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Springs Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 92 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
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 Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs ↗
- Who funds Special Kids-Special Families Inc ↗
- Who funds The Christian Home For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds Peak Education ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds Cheyenne Village ↗
- Who funds Atlas Preparatory School Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds TESSA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS COMMUNITY CULTURE COLLECTIVE AT THE AUDITORIUM ↗
- Who funds Teller Senior Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Hillside Connection ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition for Families and Children ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Gives Foundation · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Marson Foundation · Jerome V Bruni Foundation · The Nutrition Camp School Foundaton Inc
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 The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation 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.
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.
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