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The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation at a glance

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The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$215kArts & Culture$162kHealth$87kEducation$86kHousing & Shelter$54kFood & Nutrition$51kCrime & Legal$33kCommunity Improvement$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $136k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$996k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARLY CONNECTIONS$10,000
CARE & SHARE$10,000
PROJECT ANGEL HEART$8,000
Chamber Orchestra Of The Springs$8,000
WESTSIDE CARES$7,500
Colorado Springs Pro Housing$7,000
Homeward Pikes Peak$5,000
Partners In Housing$5,000
CHEYENNE VILLAGE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT$5,000
United Way$5,000
DREAM CENTERS$5,000
PEAK EDUCATION$5,000
SPECIAL KIDS SPECIAL FAMILY$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Teller Senior Coalition: $3k → 8%The Resource Exchange: $3k → 15%Ray Hope Cancer Foundation: $4k → 12%THE PLACE: $5k → 9%The Place: $5k → 9%The Place: $5k → 9%The Place: $5k → 9%B Cos - We Care For Our Community: $4k → 9%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 9%The Place: $3k → 9%The Place: $2k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $2k → 9%Gods Pantry: $4k → 9%Catamount Institute: $2k → 9%COSILoveYou: $3k → 9%The Resource Exchange: $5k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $5k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $5k → 9%Mercys Gate: $4k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $3k → 9%Tessa: $5k → 9%TESSA: $4k → 9%Tri Lakes Cares: $5k → 9%Tri Lakes Cares: $3k → 9%Tri Lakes Cares: $3k → 9%Tri Lakes Cares: $3k → 9%Tri Lakes Cares: $2k → 9%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$634k · 40 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
40

Total granted

$634k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+16%

Still filing today

68%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Care and Share Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +36%
  • CS
    COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +32%
  • WC
    WESTSIDE CARES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CD
    Centro De la Familia
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CF
    Colorado Farm to Table Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -12%
  • TA
    THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO S
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
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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2
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services
4
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
5
Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights
6
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
7
The Pinon Project

The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.

Human Services
8
Summitstone Health Partners

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…

Health
9
La Plata Youth Services

La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.

Crime & Legal
10
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Springs Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 92 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCALLISTER HOUSE MUSEUM: $73,900 · OtherMCALLISTER HOUSE MUSEUMWESTSIDE CARES INC: $30,500 · OtherWESTSIDE CARES INCEARLY CONNECTIONS: $26,000 · OtherEARLY CONNECTIONSThe Chamber Orchestra of the Springs: $23,500 · OtherThe Christian Home For Children Inc: $17,000 · OtherCASA: $15,500 · OtherMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER+50 more: $238,700 · Other+50 moreThe Place: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe PlaceTRI-LAKES CARES: $15,500 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CARE…Cheyenne Village: $13,000 · Human ServicesCheyenne Villa…TESSA: $9,000 · Human ServicesTESSATHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE RESOURCE E…Teller Senior Coalition Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesTeller Senior …THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $4,500 · Human ServicesRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Human ServicesGod's Pantry Ministry: $4,000 · Human ServicesMercy's Gate: $3,600 · Human ServicesB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING: $3,500 · Human ServicesAge Wise Colorado Inc: $3,500 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO: $25,500 · EducationFOUNTAIN VA…Peak Education: $15,500 · EducationPeak Educat…Community Partnership for Child Development: $15,500 · EducationCommunity P…Atlas Preparatory School Inc: $10,000 · EducationAtlas Prepa…COOL SCIENCE: $5,000 · EducationCOOL SCIENC…Children's Literacy Center Inc: $3,500 · Education+2 more: $3,500 · EducationSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $22,500 · HealthCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $16,000 · HealthCommunity Coalition for Families and Children: $5,500 · HealthTHE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO: $2,500 · HealthCare and Share Inc: $42,000 · Food & NutritionColorado Farm to Table Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $35,000 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of the Rockies: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE ALLIANCE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $1,600 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT ANGEL HEART: $28,000 · Community Improvement
Other$450,100Human Services$104,100Education$78,500Health$51,500Food & Nutrition$47,000Arts & Culture$43,600Community Improvement$28,000

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 budgetCare and Share Inc: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $35,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWESTSIDE CARES INC: $30,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO: $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Place: $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Chamber Orchestra of the Springs: $23,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christian Home For Children Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeak Education: $15,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES: $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCheyenne Village: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTESSA: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS COMMUNITY CULTURE COLLECTIVE AT THE AUDITORIUM: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeller Senior Coalition Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Families and Children: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHillside Connection: $5,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetColorado Farm to Table Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOL SCIENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOpera Theatre of the Rockies: $5,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPIKES PEAK UNITED WAY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGod's Pantry Ministry: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMercy's Gate: $3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Literacy Center Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING: $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAge Wise Colorado Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOS I LOVE YOU: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHAKA LAND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTS CHALLENGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Catamount Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE ALLIANCE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $1,600 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMANITOU ART THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 The Place ↗
  • Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • 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 Peak Education ↗
  • Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
  • Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
  • Who funds Cheyenne Village ↗
  • Who funds Atlas Preparatory School Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds TESSA ↗
  • Who funds THE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS COMMUNITY CULTURE COLLECTIVE AT THE AUDITORIUM ↗
  • Who funds Teller Senior Coalition Inc ↗
  • Who funds Community Coalition for Families and Children ↗
  • Who funds Hillside Connection ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Farm to Table Inc ↗
  • Who funds Homeward Pikes Peak ↗

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.

El Pomar FoundationPikes Peak Community …The Joseph Henry Edmo…The Myron Stratton Ho…Colorado Springs Heal…Pikes Peak United WayINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Colorado Gives Founda…Luther T McCauley Cha…The Marson FoundationJerome V Bruni Founda…The Nutrition Camp Sc…
El Pomar FoundationCO77.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation 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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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