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Veterans Passport to Hope

Increase awareness and concern with the general public about the issues facing veterans as they re-integrate into the local colorado population.

$94k
Granted FY2018
16
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2018.

Human Services$103kHealth$23kPublic Benefit$18kAnimals$15kFood & Nutrition$13kEducation$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kInternational$5k
02FY2018 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $91,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $93,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,000 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.
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELPING HANDS FOR FREEDOM$7,500
CHALLENGE ASPEN$7,500
ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN$7,500
HONOR BELL FOUNDATION$7,500
EL PASO COUNTY HOMELESS VETERANS COALITION$6,500
VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION (PROGAM)$5,000
MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER$5,000
HEARTS AND HORSES$5,000
PROJECT SANCTUARY$5,000
VETERAN'S TO FARMERS$5,000
WARRIOR BONFIRE PROGRAM$5,000
COLORADO VETERANS PROJECT$5,000
VETERANS EXPEDITIONS$5,000
EAGLE'S NEST RANCH$5,000
REDISTRIBUTION CENTER INC$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%HELPING HANDS FOR FREEDOM: $8k → 11%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $8k → 6%REDISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $5k → 7%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 8%HEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $5k → 12%EAGLE'S NEST RANCH: $5k → 3%REDISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $5k → 7%EAGLE'S NEST RANCH: $5k → 3%SUPPORT-A-SOLDIER: $5k → 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83k · 7 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$83k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+70%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesPublic BenefitCrime & LegalArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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

  • AO
    ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +259%
  • VT
    Veterans to Farmers Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +44%
  • VV
    VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • PA
    PATRIOT ANGLERS CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • AC
    ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +70%
  • WH
    WOUNDED HEROES FAMILY ADVENTURES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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 Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
2
Colorado Vets

Provide services for veterans and veterans organization

Human Services
3
Waypoint Vets Inc

Waypoint vets is a 501c3 with the mission of uniting and empowering veterans through camaraderie and adventure. comprised of volunteers with a passion to serve. we are actively combating post traumatic stress, military sexual trauma and…

Public Benefit
4
At Liberty Connections
Health
5
Veterans & Military Listening Post

Providing organized support to vetrans

—
6
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
7
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
8
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
9
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
10
Hope4vets
Housing & Shelter
11
American Wounded Veterans Foundation

Raising money for local colorado wounded veterans

—
12
Horses for Heroes - New Mexico Inc

The organization provides a free program of unique horsemanship, wellness, and skill set restructuring that is open to all post 9/11 veterans as well as active military personnel who have sustained post-traumatic stress, combat trauma, or…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Veterans Project; the most unlike its peers is Challenge Aspen. 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

21 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. 21 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INCREDISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREDISTRIBUTION CENTER INCEAGLES NEST RANCH: $10,000 · Human ServicesEAGLES NEST RANCHCHALLENGE ASPEN: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPENHELPING HANDS FOR FREEDOM: $7,500 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS FOR FREEDOMEL PASO COUNTY HOMELESS VETERANS COALITION: $6,500 · Human ServicesEL PASO COUNTY HOMELESS VETERANS COALITIONFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INCHEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $5,000 · Human ServicesHEALING WARRIORS PROGRAMSUPPORT A SOLDIER CLEARINGHOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORT A SOLDIER CLEARINGHOUSE INCA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $13,000 · Public BenefitA Sanctuary for Military…HONOR BELL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Public BenefitHONOR BELL FOUNDATION IN…Veterans Expeditions Inc: $5,000 · Public BenefitVeterans Expeditions IncCOLORADO VETERANS PROJECT: $5,000 · Public BenefitCOLORADO VETERANS PROJEC…WARRIOR BONFIRE PROJECT: $5,000 · Public BenefitWARRIOR BONFIRE PROJECTPost 1 Foundation: $5,000 · Public BenefitPost 1 FoundationPATRIOT ANGLERS CORPORATION: $8,000 · OtherPATRIOT ANGLERS C…ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherARAPAHOE COMMUNIT…WOUNDED HEROES FAMILY ADVENTURES INC: $5,000 · OtherWOUNDED HEROES FA…NO SOLDIER LEFT BEHIND: $5,000 · OtherNO SOLDIER LEFT B…VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH: $5,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AME…ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $15,000 · Crime & LegalANGELS OF…Veterans to Farmers Inc: $12,500 · Arts & CultureHEARTS & HORSES INC: $10,000 · HealthNO BARRIERS USA: $5,000 · InternationalMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $5,000 · Employment
Human Services$69,000Public Benefit$40,500Other$28,000Crime & Legal$15,000Arts & Culture$12,500Health$10,000International$5,000Employment$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVeterans to Farmers Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREDISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAGLES NEST RANCH: $10,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHONOR BELL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Expeditions Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSUPPORT A SOLDIER CLEARINGHOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWARRIOR BONFIRE PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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…Trailhead InstituteCommunity Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Daniels FundEl Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO26.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Veterans Passport to Hope funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Veterans Passport to Hope. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Veterans Passport to Hope?

    Find your warmest path to Veterans Passport to Hope 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 25 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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