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The Myron Stratton Home

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$723k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$730kEducation$603kHealth$325kYouth Development$260kCrime & Legal$105kFood & Nutrition$102kArts & Culture$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $398k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$298M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic Charities$100,000
Fostering Hope Foundation$100,000
Atlas Prep School$65,000
Elevation Community Land Trust$50,000
Community Partnership Family Resources$30,000
Hilltop Ranch$30,000
Family Promise$25,000
Mercy's Gate$25,000
Peak Education$20,000
Family Life Services$20,000
Raise the Future$20,000
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$20,000
Disability ServicesEnvida (3 Yrs Grant)$20,000
Beautiful Redemption$20,000
Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY OF CARING FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%pueblo Cooperative Care Center: $15k → 15%Community of Caring Foundation: $25k → 8%Pueblo Cooperative Care Center: $15k → 15%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $20k → 8%Teller Senior Coalition: $15k → 8%Fostering Hope Foundation: $100k → 9%Raise the Future: $20k → 12%Fostering Hope: $50k → 9%FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%The Place: $25k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $15k → 9%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 9%Urban Peak of Colorado Springs: $10k → 9%COURT CARE FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $10k → 9%FOSTERING HOPE: $8k → 9%FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%COLORADO SPRINGS INDEPENDENCE CENTER: $8k → 9%FRESH START CENTER: $10k → 9%Diakonia: $10k → 9%Hope & Home: $175k → 9%COSILOVEYOU: $10k → 9%Hope & Home: $100k → 9%Solid Rock Community Development: $20k → 9%Diakonia: $10k → 9%MERCY'S GATE: $50k → 9%Rocky Mountain Kids: $20k → 9%Mercy's Gate: $25k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $25k → 9%Mercy's Gate: $20k → 9%Mercy's Gate: $15k → 9%Disability Services: $10k → 9%HIGH PLAINS HELPING HANDS: $10k → 9%High Plains Helping Hands: $10k → 9%TESSA: $30k → 9%TESSA: $15k → 9%TESSA: $10k → 9%TRI-LAKES CARES: $15k → 9%Hilltop Ranch: $30k → 9%Tri Lakes Cares: $10k → 9%BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION: $20k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $10k → 9%Beautiful Redemption: $20k → 9%Tri-Lake Cares: $10k → 9%SILVER KEY: $150k → 9%Silver Key: $75k → 9%Silver Key: $50k → 9%Silver Key: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 55 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
76

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+22%

Still filing today

87%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $285k · revenue +110%
  • HA
    HOPE AND HOME
    2× · 2019–2020 · $275k · revenue +6%
  • FH
    FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +218%

Funded once

  • CC
    Cripple CreekVictor School District
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • WF
    We Fortifygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +111%
  • FT
    FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE)
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
3
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
4
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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5
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
7
The Pinon Project

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

Human Services
8
Connections for Independent Living

To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.

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9
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
10
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
11
La Plata Youth Services

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

Crime & Legal
12
Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado

To provide compassionate, comprehensive, and accessible healthcare for individuals of all ages, fostering a healthier and brighter future for every child and adult in our community. Our vision is rooted in a commitment to providing…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope and Home and the most unlike its peers is Rudy Balke Trust Inc. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr15%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
13%
1,184/9,122

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.

04the grantee network

89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 150 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/89
Grantees still filing
64/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $160,000 · OtherPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITYCripple CreekVictor School District — $100,000 · OtherCatholic Charities — $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC — $95,000 · OtherThe Christian Home For Children Inc — $92,500 · OtherWESTSIDE CARES INC — $80,000 · Other+84 more — $1,605,500 · Other+84 moreSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $285,000 · Human ServicesSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INCHOPE AND HOME — $275,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HOMEFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION — $203,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATIONMercy's Gate — $115,000 · Human ServicesMercy's GateCommunity of Caring Foundation Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesTESSA — $55,000 · Human Services+18 more — $457,500 · Human Services+18 morePartners in Housing Inc — $95,000 · Housing & ShelterELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHomeward Pikes Peak — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterWe Fortify — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterPIKES PEAK REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterENERGY RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Dale House Project — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more — $37,500 · Housing & ShelterAtlas Preparatory School Inc — $150,000 · EducationPeak Education — $50,000 · EducationChildren's Literacy Center Inc — $37,500 · EducationPARENTS CHALLENGE — $30,000 · EducationCommunity Partnership for Child Development — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $17,500 · EducationDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $65,000 · HealthSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc — $55,000 · HealthGRIFFITH CENTERS — $27,500 · HealthCommunity Coalition for Families and Children — $25,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $20,000 · HealthCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTH — $15,000 · HealthCOLO SPGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $15,000 · HealthCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $10,000 · HealthHillside Connection — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentFriends of the Children - Colorado — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA — $25,000 · Crime & LegalForge Evolution — $20,000 · Crime & LegalKidpower of Colorado Inc — $17,500 · Crime & LegalPIKES PEAK JUSTICE & PRO BONO CENTER — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC — $7,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,233,000Human Services$1,465,500Housing & Shelter$357,500Education$305,000Health$232,500Youth Development$130,000Crime & Legal$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $285,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHOPE AND HOME — $275,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION — $203,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $160,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMercy's Gate — $115,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe Christian Home For Children Inc — $92,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetWESTSIDE CARES INC — $80,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCommunity of Caring Foundation Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCASA of the Pikes Peak Region — $70,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $65,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTESSA — $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeak Education — $50,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak — $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWe Fortify — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHillside Connection — $45,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetBEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION — $45,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES — $45,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCheyenne Village — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHome Front Military Network — $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Literacy Center Inc — $37,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTeller Senior Coalition Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Place — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALING NETWORK dba Mission Medical Center — $30,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHilltop Ranch — $30,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPueblo Cooperative Care Center — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF TELLER COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPARENTS CHALLENGE — $30,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGRIFFITH CENTERS — $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA — $25,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPIKES PEAK REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDAYBREAK - AN ADULT DAY PROGRAM — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Families and Children — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetITHAKA LAND INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN KIDS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Springs Heal…Pikes Peak Community …El Pomar FoundationThe Joseph Henry Edmo…Pikes Peak United WayINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Ent Credit UnionLuther T McCauley Cha…The Hester E & Edwin …Colorado Gives Founda…The Marson FoundationT Rowe Price Foundati…
Colorado Springs Health FoundationCO120.3× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Ent Credit Union · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Marson Foundation · T Rowe Price 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 The Myron Stratton Home 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your 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
    45report 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

    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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    How do I get to The Myron Stratton Home?

    Find your warmest path to The Myron Stratton Home 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 150 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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