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Thrivers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION INC | $25,000 |
| SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION | $20,000 |
| PARENTS CHALLENGE | $20,000 |
| EXPONENTIAL IMPACT | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE INC | $10,000 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY | $10,000 |
| DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS | $10,000 |
| HILLSIDE CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC | $5,000 |
| PEAK EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE HEART 09-29-2000 | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- EIExponential Impact2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +28%
- DCDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +15%
- PCPARENTS CHALLENGE2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- GCGAZETTE CHARITIESone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +11%
- CSColorado Springs Community Ventures Incone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -19%
- JIJOINT INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIESone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +14%
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.
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…
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
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…
Working to ensure that Downtown Colorado Springs serves as the economic, civic, and cultural heart of Colorado Springs.
To enhance economic opportunities with data-driven strategies that inform community and workforce development initiatives.
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
Startup colorado serves to help both entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders access the human, social, and financial capital they need to build thriving businesses.
To provide innovative career exploration and work-based learning opportunities that prepare youth to enter tomorrow's workforce and build fulfilling lives.
WCLI empowers women in Colorado Springs to realize their full leadership potential, breakdown barriers to advancement, create a more inclusive and equitable community for all.
The Southwest Colorado Education Collaborative strengthens diverse communities byproviding pathways in career readiness and higher education for students to build21st-century skills and economically viable futures.
The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Solid Rock Community Developmentcorporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 Exponential Impact ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds PARENTS CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Hillside Connection ↗
- Who funds Peak Education ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE HEART ↗
- Who funds GAZETTE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Community Ventures Inc ↗
- Who funds JOINT INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The John E and Margaret L Lane Foundation · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · Ent Credit Union
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 Thrivers 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.
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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