· Community foundation
Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc
Western colorado community foundation amplifies the generosity in our communities by providing leadership, connections, and resources to meet the ever-evolving needs of our western colorado home.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $273k
- $10k–50k122 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $538,445 |
| PRIMEHEALTH | $446,819 |
| HOMEWARDBOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY | $435,590 |
| GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $401,081 |
| MESA COUNTY PARTNERS | $391,606 |
| HOPEWEST | $368,009 |
| ROICE HURST HUMANE SOCIETY | $345,260 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MESA COUNTY | $343,480 |
| COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST - GRAND JUNCTION | $242,413 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $159,500 |
| RIVERSIDE EDUCATION CENTERS | $136,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL | $125,810 |
| CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION - POLICE DEPARTMENT | $101,827 |
| WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT | $100,000 |
| GRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY FOUNDATION | $85,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
206 repeat relationships: 141 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $768k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GVGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +56%
- MCMARILLAC CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +100%
- HHHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $139k
- GBGJ BLACKOUTone grant, 2024 · $101k · revenue -2%
- AVASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
The mission of the grand junction economic partnership is to generate high quality economic development by attracting business and quality jobs to mesa county, colorado.
How this is measured
293 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. 293 of the 392 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HopeWest ↗
- Who funds MESA YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROICE-HURST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MESA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KARIS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZA ↗
- Who funds KIDS AID KIDS AID ↗
- Who funds YOUTHZONE INC ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clifton Christian Church Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES OF WESTERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ENRICHED COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds GRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds GRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Confluence Center of Colorado 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.
Open a dossier: Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Goodwin Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Bacon Family Foundation · The Colorado Trust · International Association of Lions 3602 · Caring for Colorado Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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