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Volunteers Inspiring & Encouraging Positive Attitude Resilience & Ser
We bring families together with the common goal of providing avenues for enrichment and self-improvement through fundraising and community service.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of VOLUNTEERS INSPIRING & ENCOURAGING POSITIVE ATTITUDE RESILIENCE & SER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $414,119 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $562,269 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $148,150 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northern CO Rush Soccer | $60,065 |
| Legacy Band Boosters | $28,589 |
| Juggernaut Volleyball | $26,866 |
| CO RoughRiders | $26,436 |
| Colorado State University | $22,699 |
| 5280 Gymnastics | $20,627 |
| Western Air Flight Academy KCFO | $16,186 |
| Alameda International | $15,362 |
| Aidvantage | $15,333 |
| WH Blocker-Lakeland Tours LLC dba Worldstrides | $13,832 |
| CollegeAVE Student Loans | $13,810 |
| Diamond Club Baseball | $12,356 |
| US Department of Education | $12,214 |
| Nelnet | $11,972 |
| Cheer Athletics | $11,609 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +25%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +58%
- NFNelnet Foundation2× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +351%
Funded once
- AIAmerican International Travel and Toursone grant, 2023 · $44k
- MCMusic Celebrations Internationalone grant, 2022 · $26k
- CCCheer Central Sunsone grant, 2019 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The foundation was established to promote colorado state university-pueblo and account for contributions from the general public for the benefit of the university. the foundation assists with approved fundraising activities, collects…
To support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
To support the university, its academic programs, and its students, and to foster alumni relations. see schedule o.
The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.
Provide funding for scholarships and improvement projects for colorado northwestern community college
The foundation is entrusted to provide support and steward donations for the university of northern colorado.
To annually award scholarships at colorado state university. this scholarship, given annually to a deserving underprivileged high school student, is a four-year award that includes room and board.
The foundation's purpose is to develop a sustainable source of revenue to support community college of denver, its students, faculty, staff and programs.
North idaho college foundation solicits, accepts, and stewards private support to enhance educational excellence and student success at north idaho college. the foundation provides strategic resources for student scholarships, program…
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
To promote accounting education in colorado and support individuals and institutions engaged in its study and teaching.
Educational
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Michael S Jacobs Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO RUSH SOCCER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jefferson County Open School PTSO ↗
- Who funds LEGACY BAND BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nelnet Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Michael S Jacobs Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEEL KIDS FIRST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSWALK PEOPLE HELPERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Home Neighborly Service of Denver · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Volunteers Inspiring & Encouraging Positive Attitude Resilience & Ser 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.
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.
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