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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.

$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$7.3MHuman Services$715kPhilanthropy$585kEducation$378kHousing & Shelter$133kFood & Nutrition$86kCommunity Improvement$69kScience & Tech$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $3,182,425, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,108,383 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,925,958 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
$50,570
Median grant
3
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–19, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $297k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $30k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $30k → 9%SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $15k → 9%SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $15k → 9%SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $15k → 9%COMMUNITY GRIEF CENTER: $15k → 9%LIFE STORIES CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY: $5k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 22 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$8.2M
$838k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+54%

Still filing today

55%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SC
    SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +51%
  • ES
    ENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +56% · 25% of their budget
  • UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $585k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $155k · revenue +92%
  • AC
    ADEO COLORADO
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -36%
  • WC
    Weld County School District 6
    one grant, 2019 · $124k
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
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.

Health
2
Womens Resource Center in Durango

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.

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3
Urban Land Conservancy

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.

Community Improvement
4
Sage Advocacy Center

Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.

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5
Wesley Community Services Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Greeleyweld Economic Development

Our mission focuses on facilitating and attracting investment, creating new job opportunities, stimulating income growth and expanding the local community tax base.

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7
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
8
Goodwill Industrial Services Corporation

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…

Employment
9
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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10
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
12
Housing Resources of Western Colorado

To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 49 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $2,650,726 · HealthSUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTHTHE WELD TRUST: $1,493,015 · HealthTHE WELD TRUSTENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER: $649,550 · HealthENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER+2 more: $76,894 · HealthBANNER HEALTH: $1,685,377 · OtherBANNER HEALTHLIFEMED SAFETY INC: $165,751 · OtherLIFEMED SAFETY INCADEO COLORADO: $150,000 · OtherWeld County School District 6: $123,500 · OtherWELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 6: $120,774 · Other+26 more: $666,803 · Other+26 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $357,216 · Human ServicesA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $269,896 · Human ServicesSENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $45,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN TO WOMEN INC: $28,000 · Human Services+2 more: $19,700 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $585,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $155,000 · EducationThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $50,000 · EducationSEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER: $15,000 · EducationWELD FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREELEY INC: $9,150 · Food & NutritionGREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$4,870,185Other$2,912,205Human Services$719,812Philanthropy$585,000Education$220,000Food & Nutrition$59,150Housing & Shelter$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $2,650,726 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetTHE WELD TRUST: $1,493,015 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER: $649,550 over 8y, 25% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $585,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $357,216 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $269,896 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetADEO COLORADO: $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $45,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICAN BURN ASSOCIATION: $42,594 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $34,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN TO WOMEN INC: $28,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY GRIEF CENTER: $14,700 over 1y, 25% of budgetGREELEY LIONS CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetGREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREELEY INC: $9,150 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe International Association of Lions Clubs: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREELEY INDEPENDENCE STAMPEDE INC: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA KID'S PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Weld TrustUnited Way of Weld Co…Weld Community Founda…Otter Cares Foundatio…Colorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationCommunity Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Sorelle Family Founda…Wenaas Family Foundat…Monfort Family Founda…Tointon Family Founda…
The Weld TrustCO42.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Weld Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weld Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 49 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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