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Windy Pines Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $495k
- $250k+2 grants · $678k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Anchor Academy | $355,000 |
| UNITY PROJECT INC | $322,600 |
| Womens Comm Leadership Initiative | $150,000 |
| FOOD TO POWER | $150,000 |
| GO FARM | $145,000 |
| BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| BLACKPACKERS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MILLENIUM ALLSTARS CHEER & DANCE TEAM | $25,000 |
| Rise Southeast Coalition | $20,000 |
| Knob Hill Urban Arts District | $17,820 |
| Highroots Wellness & Consulting | $10,000 |
| El Cinco De Mayo Inc | $10,000 |
| Foundation for Advancement and Education | $10,000 |
| PEAK EDUCATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $633k 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
- UPUnity Project Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $449k · revenue +687% · 76% of their budget
- FTFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE)2× · 2023–2024 · $205k · revenue +50%
BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- RIRECIDIVIZ INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -19%
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -30%
THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -12%
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.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
The mission of the Urban Leadership Foundation of Colorado is to invest in the development of minority leaders, empower them to serve in the interest of community, and leverage all resources to address the racial, economic, education,…
The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…
Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
Colorado people's alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans…
Empowering Latino communities through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado
Building Bridges equip inclusive leaders with the skills they need to transform divides in their communities. Building Bridges two key program areas are Transform and Shift. Transform brings together diverse young people from Metro Denver…
To promote equity by facilitating access to academic, health, and economic development opportunities through charitable giving and engagement within our black and underserved communities in Colorado.
The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission educates, advocates, and cultivates peace, justice, nonviolence, and sustainability in the Pikes Peak Region, engaging our world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Challenge and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Folklorico De Barajas. 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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 Unity Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) ↗
- Who funds GoFarm ↗
- Who funds BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND ↗
- Who funds Womens Comm Leadership Initiative ↗
- Who funds RECIDIVIZ INC ↗
- Who funds DENVERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKPACKERS ↗
- Who funds Hillside Connection ↗
- Who funds Peak Education ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN LOTUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds One Body Ent ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INITIATIVE FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds HIGHROOTS WELLNESS & CONSULTING ↗
- Who funds BALLET FOLKLORICO DE BARAJAS ↗
- Who funds Red Wind Consulting Inc ↗
- Who funds Citizens Project ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Spirit of the Sun Inc ↗
- Who funds THE THRIVE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LATINA EQUITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA ↗
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: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · The Colorado Trust · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Anschutz 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 Windy Pines 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.
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