· Public charity
The Weld Trust
THE WELD TRUST awards grants related to health and education to nonprofits, schools and government entities to enhance the lives of weld county residents.
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 102 grants below total $18,666,514 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $51,734,407 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,067,893 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+10 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BANNER HEALTH | $5,000,000 |
| GREELEY WELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,612,500 |
| HIGH PLAINS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP | $2,501,000 |
| THE SUCCESS FOUNDATION SERVING GREELEY-EVANS SCHOOLS INC | $697,835 |
| UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC | $673,433 |
| WELD FOOD BANK | $418,750 |
| NORTHERN COLORADO YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $391,600 |
| WELD RE-4 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $345,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION INC | $332,250 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE | $310,002 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY | $232,500 |
| ST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-1J | $213,541 |
| SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTER OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $200,000 |
| NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $196,000 |
| CARDINAL COMMUNITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $195,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 20 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $938k 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
- BHBanner Health5× · 2017–2022 · $25M · revenue +68%
UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +53%- TSThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +127% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF FORT LUPTONone grant, 2023 · $410k
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -59%
- CACENTENNIAL AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +11%
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.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
The Agile Learner Fund is a nonprofit organization of Colorado Succeeds. As a supporting organization, ALF exists for the express purpose of supporting activities that benefit Colorado Succeeds' mission, vision, and core strategies. More…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
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…
To promote successful second chances, reduce recidivism, and enhance the well-being and safety of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stepping Stones of Windsor. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
116 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. 116 of the 149 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 Banner Health ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
- Who funds NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Weld RE-4 Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOBS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREELEY DREAM TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds POUDRE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION I ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ADEO COLORADO ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM REVIVED ↗
- Who funds NORTH COLORADO HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds ENVISION CREATIVE SUPPORT FOR PEO- PLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds Dementia Together ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL COMMUNITY ACADEMY ↗
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: Weld Community Foundation · United Way of Weld County Inc · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Denver Foundation · Weld Legacy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community 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 Weld Trust 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.