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Used Car Dealers of Colorado Charity Fund Inc

The corporation 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 described under I.r.c.

$177k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$142kHealth$136kHuman Services$110kArts & Culture$110kHousing & Shelter$44kYouth Development$30kEducation$16kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $95,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $176,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $81,850 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$85,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VSA COLORADO ACCESS GALLERY$85,000
NIADA$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ADOPT COLORADO KIDS: $34k → 9%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 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
Elevating Connections

Elevating Connections is dedicated to building sustained positive relationships for current & former youth in foster care-including those experiencing sibling separation-to find their voice & build meaningful community connections.

Youth Development
2
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
3
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc Dba Project Sanctuary

Believing that when one person serves the whole family serves, Project Sanctuary takes a human-centered, solution-based approach to helping military families heal and move forward in life. Through innovative long-term programming focused…

Public Benefit
4
Our House Inc

Providing opportunities and environments to build bright futures. Our House provides residential and Day Program Services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The focus is on building independent living skills,…

Human Services
5
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
6
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

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.

Human Services
7
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
8
Courage Worldwide Inc

To provide homes and resources for children who have been recovered from sex trafficking worldwide so they begin their unique journey of healing and be a courageous leader in the global anti-trafficking movement.

Human Services
9
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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10
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
11
Hope and Home

Hope & home creates ways for amazing people to change the lives of children in foster care. as a nondenominational christian charity, hope & home trains, certifies, and actively supports foster families across the state of colorado.…

Human Services
12
The Dragonfly Home Inc

The Dragonfly Home walks alongside human trafficking victims-survivors on their path to freedom and restoration.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angels of America's Fallen; the most unlike its peers is Sox Place Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BUTTERFLY CHILDREN FUND CORP: $135,895 · HealthTHE BUTTERFLY CHILDREN FUND CORPREMOUNT FOUNDATION: $39,750 · HealthREMOUNT FOUNDATIONACCESS GALLERY: $110,042 · Arts & CultureACCESS GALLERYTreasure House of Hope: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWAPIYAPI: $102,000 · Recreation & SportsWAPIYAPIANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $76,000 · Crime & LegalANGELS OF AMER…Americas Kids Belong: $34,150 · Human ServicesAmericas Ki…Sox Place Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesSox Place I…SARAH'S HOME CORPORATION: $39,000 · Housing & ShelterBILL REED MIDDLE SCHOOL: $6,180 · OtherTHE FORGOTTEN HEROES CAMPAIGN: $5,000 · OtherWILLIE B FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL INDEPENDENT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5,000 · Other
Health$175,645Arts & Culture$115,042Recreation & Sports$102,000Crime & Legal$76,000Human Services$64,150Housing & Shelter$39,000Other$36,180

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BUTTERFLY CHILDREN FUND CORP: $135,895 over 1y, 76% of budgetACCESS GALLERY: $110,042 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetWAPIYAPI: $102,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $76,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetREMOUNT FOUNDATION: $39,750 over 1y, 31% of budgetSARAH'S HOME CORPORATION: $39,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAmericas Kids Belong: $34,150 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL INDEPENDENT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreasure House of Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Used Car Dealers of Colorado Charity Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Used Car Dealers of Colorado Charity Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to Used Car Dealers of Colorado Charity Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Used Car Dealers of Colorado Charity Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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