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Ute Pass Saddle Club

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.

$118k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TELLER COUNTY HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFF ASSOCIATION$15,000
Community Coalition for Families & Children$10,000
Lightbulb Theatre Company$10,000
TELLER COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER INC$10,000
8th Mountain Ranch$10,000
LITTLE CHAPEL OF THE HILLS$10,000
Faithful Hearts Equine Learning Center$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CO INC$10,000
Help the Needy$10,000
CASA of the Pikes Peak Region Inc$10,000
ChoralSong of Colorado Springs$6,500
Woodland Park Wind Symphony$4,000
Catamount Wildlife Center$2,500
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 3%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%8th Mountain Ranch: $10k → 3%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your 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.

1
Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals
2
Always Dreaming Horse Ranch and Res

Horse Shelter

3
Fostering Love Rescues

Fostering Love Rescues rescues and provides temporary shelter and medical care for adoptable cats and dogs for the purpose of finding them suitable and permanent homes. We adopt rescued horses and other hoofed animals for the purpose of…

Animals
4
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
5
Christian Farms Rescue and Rehab

Through donations, we are able to help several horses, as well as other farm animals, receive veterinary care needed as well as food and shelter. in today's time, so many have abandoned their beloved pets, because they have come to a point…

Animals
6
New Hope Ranch Inc

Rescue animals horses, dogs, and goats

Animals
7
Second Chance Ranch Inc

To rescue horses, ponies and donkeys from neglect, abuse and needlessly going to slaughter, and to rehabilitate them, and find them loving homes.

Animals
8
Love Hope Ranch

Faith based pts support

Health
9
End of Road Ranch

Our goals are twofold a safety net for horses in need , finding a foster or adoptive home when possible,education of the public as too the care and needs of these magnificent animals. Have added small animals cats and dogs.

Animals
10
Thunder Mountain Farms Equine Rescue

Rescue horses from slaughter and neglect and find homes for them.

Animals
11
Believe Ranch and Rescue
Animals
12
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 8TH Mountain Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Choralsong of Colorado Springs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LITTLE CHAPEL OF THE HILLS — $10,000 · OtherLITTLE CHAPEL OF THE HILLSLIGHTBULB THEATRE COMPANY — $10,000 · OtherLIGHTBULB THEATRE COMPANYWOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONY — $4,000 · OtherWOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONYCATAMOUNT WILDLIFE CENTER — $2,500 · OtherCATAMOUNT WILDLIFE CENTERFAITHFULHEARTS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 · OtherFAITHFULHEARTS EQUINE LEARNING CENTERCHORALSONG OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $6,500 · OtherCHORALSONG OF COLORADO SPRINGSCommunity Coalition for Families and Children — $10,000 · HealthCommunity Coalition…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOU…TELLER COUNTY HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFF ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTELLER COUNTY …CASA of the Pikes Peak Region — $10,000 · Civil RightsCASA of t…TELLER COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELT — $10,000 · AnimalsTELLER CO…8TH MOUNTAIN RANCH — $10,000 · Human Services8TH MOUNT…HELP THE NEEDY DBA HTN - HOPE LIVES HERE — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHELP THE …
Other$43,000Health$20,000Youth Development$15,000Civil Rights$10,000Animals$10,000Human Services$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTELLER COUNTY HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFF ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCASA of the Pikes Peak Region — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTELLER COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHELP THE NEEDY DBA HTN - HOPE LIVES HERE — $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFAITHFULHEARTS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Families and Children — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHORALSONG OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $6,500 over 1y, 10% of budget
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.

Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Creative Providers Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ute Pass Saddle Club 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ute Pass Saddle Club?

    Find your warmest path to Ute Pass Saddle Club 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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