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University of Colorado Foundation

The UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION is the portal for philanthropic giving to the university of colorado and is responsible for receiving, managing, and investing the endowments and other gift funds the foundation holds for the benefit of cu.

$231M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$229M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.6BHealth$18MCommunity Improvement$834kRecreation & Sports$130kScience & Tech$36k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$228,961,654
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$228,961,654
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,630,471
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $121k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $8.5M → 8%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $341k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $13k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $130k → 14%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 8%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $259k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 8%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $86k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 8%PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $81k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $229.0M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $210.3M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $651k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $203.3M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $355k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $180.8M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $327k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $175.9M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $166.1M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $161.3M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $160.4M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $139.4M → 12%BLACKSTONE ENTREPRENEURS NETWORK: $581k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6B · 6 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$1.6B
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+50%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PP
    PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $767k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +35%
  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • BC
    BEN Colorado Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $581k · revenue -36% · 57% of their budget
  • SC
    STARTUP COLORADO
    one grant, 2024 · $253k · revenue 0% · 37% of their budget
  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2024 · $130k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
2
University of Colorado Foundation

The university of colorado foundation is the portal for philanthropic giving to the university of colorado and is responsible for receiving, managing, and investing the endowments and other gift funds the foundation holds for the benefit…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
University of New Mexico Foundation Inc

Create powerful engagements and partnerships that lead to increased philanthropy, investment, innovation, and support for the university of new mexico.

Education
5
Clarkson University

Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
10
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Northern Colorado Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Startup Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $1,626,491,072 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO+1 more: $18,276,281 · OtherPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $766,707 · EducationBEN Colorado Inc: $580,631 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $120,601 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Education+3 more: $93,836 · EducationSTARTUP COLORADO: $253,489 · Human ServicesNorthwestern University: $130,125 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,644,767,353Education$1,711,775Human Services$253,489Recreation & Sports$130,125

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $766,707 over 4y, 12% of budgetBEN Colorado Inc: $580,631 over 1y, 57% of budgetSTARTUP COLORADO: $253,489 over 1y, 37% of budgetNorthwestern University: $130,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $120,601 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,528 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $35,808 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization University of Colorado Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Colorado Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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