· Public charity
Weld Legacy Foundation
WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION awards grants related to health and education to nonprofits, schools and government entities to enhance the lives of weld county residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $3,182,425 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,108,383 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,925,958 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH | $2,130,739 |
| NORTH COLORADO MEDICAL CENTER | $478,706 |
| A WOMAN'S PLACE | $269,896 |
| ENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER | $174,550 |
| LIFEMED SAFETY INC | $50,570 |
| FALCON AEROLAB | $24,750 |
| BANNER IMAGING SERVICES COLORADO LLC | $23,606 |
| BARTON CAREY MEDICAL PRODUCTS | $11,746 |
| MONFORT FAMILY CLINIC | $10,962 |
| BANNER HOME CARE | $6,900 |
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 (FY17–19, $422k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k 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
- SCSUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH7× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +51%
- ESENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +56% · 25% of their budget
UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $585k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $155k · revenue +92%
- ACADEO COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -37%
- WCWeld County School District 6one grant, 2019 · $124k
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.
Weld legacy foundation awards grants related to health and education to nonprofits, schools and government entities to enhance the lives of weld county residents.
Womens Resource Center (WRC) in Durango connects women and girls to the resources and programming that will help them reach their full potential in all states of their life.
Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.
Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.
Wesley community services, inc. is focused on providing services to older adults and those of low income. it was established in 2005 as a faith-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to people of all faiths in a…
Our mission focuses on facilitating and attracting investment, creating new job opportunities, stimulating income growth and expanding the local community tax base.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Goodwill industrial services corporation, in partnership with goodwill of colorado (ein# 84-0513404) utilizes strategic and successful business enterprises to provide life changing employment opportunities to over 200 developmentally and…
Together we create solutions for a better life.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.
To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of a Womans Place. 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 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 49 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 SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE WELD TRUST ↗
- Who funds ENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADEO COLORADO ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BURN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF A WOMANS PLACE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN TO WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GRIEF CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Avery Center ↗
- Who funds GREELEY LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GREELEY TOWN CENTER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREELEY INC ↗
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: The Weld Trust · United Way of Weld County Inc · Weld Community Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Sorelle Family Foundation · Wenaas Family Foundation · Monfort Family Foundation · Tointon Family 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 Weld Legacy Foundation 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.