· Private foundation
The Sam S Bloom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $374k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA PUENTE HOME | $30,000 |
| THE PINON PROJECT FAMILY RESOURCE C | $30,000 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTH C | $30,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COL | $30,000 |
| BEYOND HOME | $30,000 |
| FEEDING COLORADO | $15,000 |
| MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FAMILY RES | $10,000 |
| COURT CARE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION | $10,000 |
| LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION | $9,500 |
| EARLY EXCELLENCE PROGRAM OF DENVER | $8,500 |
| COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $8,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HOUSING | $8,000 |
| REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO | $8,000 |
| HOPE COMMUNITIES INC | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
117 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 13 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLA PUENTE HOME INC8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +497%
- CHCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +207%
- WVWARREN VILLAGE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- CRCOVID RELIEF FUNDMILE HIGH UNITEDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- MAMT AIRY LEARNING TREEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- AMALMA MONTESSORI COOPERATIVEone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
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.
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…
The organization provides childcare, preschool programs, gifted programs, vocational training, and therapy for the developmentally disabled.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
To expand and improve the comprehensive system of quality early childhood services for families in boulder county. the organization acts as the countywide convener for strategic planning for early childhood programs and services.
Seeds of Learning is a stand-alone, NAEYC accredited early care and education center, that serves children ages 30 months through age 5. As a community-based facility, Seeds offers parenting classes, educational opportunities for families…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.
Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.
The vision of denver's early childhood council (the "council") is that denver is a community where the diverse needs of all children and their families are supported. the council elevates the early childhood field through innovative and…
To stabilize families living in poverty in the rural colorado counties of cheyenne, elbert, kit carson and lincoln, and to move them out of poverty through education, programs, and collaborations with other agencies.
How this is measured
115 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. 115 of the 158 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds SPRING INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds EARLY EXCELLENCE PROGRAM OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Microfinance ↗
- Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Denver ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY FAMILY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC ↗
- Who funds TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Rose Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sam S Bloom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sam S Bloom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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