How much did TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

blucfseducationyouthchildrenfooddistrict

2024

food pantryfarm equity

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $91k
$10k–50k57 grants · $894k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$250k+1 grant · $1.6M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

FEEDING COLORADO$1,611,500
FRAC - FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION CENTER$60,000
FRONT LINE FARMING$50,000
SMALL TOWN PROJECTCITY OF ROC$45,000
LA PUENTE HOME INC$40,000
LIFT UP OF ROUTT COUNTY$40,000
THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE$39,243
MO BETTA GREEN MARKETPLACE$30,000
THE GROWHAUS$25,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF GRAND JUNCTION$25,000
COMMUNITY CARE COLLECTIVE$25,000
INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES$22,500
FOOD TO POWER$22,500
MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER$20,000
MT CARMEL HEALTH$20,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 196 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

196 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 135 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

196

380

Total granted

$14M

$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%

+86%

Still filing today

76%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

FL
FRONT LINE FARMING
4× · 2020–2024 · $708k · revenue +188%
VE
VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER
4× · 2021–2024 · $304k · revenue +291%
MV
MANCOS VALLEY RESOURCES
3× · 2021–2023 · $216k · revenue +59%

Funded once

EC
E-SQUARED COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
one grant, 2023 · $370k
IF
INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE
one grant, 2021 · $117k
SD
SERVICIOS DE LA RAZA
one grant, 2021 · $114k

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.

Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition

Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services

Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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Family Housing Network of Fort Collins

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. They offer a range of programs to serve families on the continuum from…

Human Services

The Lovve Project

Our mission is to combat food scarcity and promote health and well-being by ensuring access to nutritious food and essential hygiene supplies. we bring neighbors together with the shared goal of building community and supporting each other…

Food & Nutrition

Housing Resources of Western Colorado

To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.

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Foothills Food Bank

Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

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Northern Colorado Foodshed Project

We exist to enliven northern colorado's food system, growing it to be more productive, accessible and secure.

Food & Nutrition

Meals On Wheels of Boulder Inc

The mission of meals on wheels is to provide nutritious meals to residents of the community who need and want their services, regardless of age or income.

Food & Nutrition

Hunger Free Colorado

A statewide nonprofit organization that connects people to food resources and fuels change in systems, policies and social views, so no coloradan goes hungry. hunger free colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.

Food & Nutrition

Capitol Hill Community Services

Feed the homeless and disadvantaged in inner city Denver, CO

Food & Nutrition

The Denver Homeless Voice

The Denver VOICE employs individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty in the Denver area through the production and sale of the Denver VOICE, a monthly newspaper publication that helps to break down barriers and misconceptions about…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Regis University. 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 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 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%11/496

the rest of the field

12%

3,202/27,289

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.

05the grantee network

298 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

165

Early backer (in before they grew)

286/298

Grantees still filing

250/298

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$11,679,526Food & Nutrition$4,525,449Human Services$4,008,832Education$678,928Community Improvement$474,631Housing & Shelter$447,981Health$439,843

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.

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.

Anschutz Family FoundationCO127.9× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Energy Outreach Colorado · Mile High United Way Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Onward a Legacy 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 organisation TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHERISHING LIFE YOUTH TRANSFORMATIO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822475230 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHERISHING LIFE YOUTH TRANSFORMATIO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Trailhead Institute?

Find your warmest path to Trailhead Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

298 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Trailhead Institute?

More from the funding graph

TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

298 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Trailhead Institute?

More from the funding graph