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The Longmont Community Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 72 grants below total $1,908,034 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,628,268 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $720,234 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 $10k32 grants · $242k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $721k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $633k
- $250k+1 grant · $313k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $312,545 |
| UCC CHURCH OF LONGMONT | $222,852 |
| LONGMONT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $124,814 |
| ROBERTA'S LEGACY INC | $66,300 |
| OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC (OUR CENTER) | $64,489 |
| TOWN OF MEAD | $54,000 |
| EL COMITE DE LONGMONTINC | $50,167 |
| NIWOT CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUALITY (OUT BOULDER) | $48,600 |
| RECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT | $47,350 |
| REAL COLORADO (DOUGLAS COUNTY SOCCER ASSOCIATION) | $47,267 |
| INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT | $46,751 |
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $44,000 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES CHILDREN'S HOME | $39,989 |
| NAACP BOULDER COUNTY | $33,224 |
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 (FY17–24, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 33 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k 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
- OUOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $637k · revenue +51%
- WPWILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $366k · revenue +78%
- KAKATHERINE AND CHARLES HOVER GREEN HOUSES INC2× · 2019–2020 · $349k · revenue ×17
Funded once
- LHLEFT HAND BREWING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $136k · revenue +15%
- LULONGMONT UNITED HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $104k · revenue -32%
- LALONGMONT AREA VISITOR'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $78k · revenue -3%
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.
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…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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.
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…
Together we create solutions for a better life.
The nonprofit boulder chamber is the region's flagship business advocacy and support organization. with almost 120 years of dedicated service to our members and the boulder community, the boulder chamber's innovative programs help local…
Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing
To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working 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…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County and the most unlike its peers is Good Life Refuge. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
154 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. 154 of the 225 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 OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE AND CHARLES HOVER GREEN HOUSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC ↗
- Who funds LEFT HAND BREWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S WORK INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗
- Who funds THE REENTRY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Real Colorado Soccer ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA'S LEGACY ↗
- Who funds EL COMITE DE LONGMONT ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT AREA VISITOR'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds TEACHING PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER ↗
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: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Ray Lanyon Fund · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · AEC Trust · Collins Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Braly Family Foundation · Mile High United Way 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 Longmont Community 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.
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% 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.
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