How do I find funders for a health nonprofit in Colorado?

Start with the funders already giving to health in Colorado, currently Medical Center of the Rockies, Poudre Valley Health Care Inc, Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation. Then look at who funds the health organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Colorado from out of state.

Who is the largest health funder in Colorado?

Medical Center of the Rockies gives the most to health organizations in Colorado, $580M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to health in Colorado?

$4.5B reached 1,590 health organizations in Colorado, from 5,356 funders. 71% came from funders also based in Colorado.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Colorado · Health

Who funds health in Colorado

$4.5B reached 1,590 health organizations in Colorado, from 5,356 funders, with no single one dominating.

$4.5B

granted

1,590

organizations

71%

from in-state

The short version

5,356 funders gave $4.5B to 1,590 health organizations in Colorado across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
71% of that came from funders also based in Colorado; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of health in Colorado is Medical Center of the Rockies, at $580M.
The health organization drawing the most is Poudre Valley Medical Group LLC, at $1.1B.

Largest funders of health in Colorado

The funders giving the most to health organizations in Colorado, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Medical Center of the Rockies$580M 2Poudre Valley Health Care Inc$423M 3Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$367M 4The Colorado Health Foundation$136M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$134M 6Arc Thrift Stores Inc$115M 7Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department$114M 8Uchealth Greeley Hospital$112M 9St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Inc$106M 10The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$100M

Health organizations in Colorado that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,580 other health organizations$2.1B

Poudre Valley Medical Group LLC$1.1B Children's Hospital Colorado$325M Nurse-Family Partnership$219M

How to find health funders in Colorado

1
Start with the funders already active in Colorado
The funders giving the most to health in Colorado are Medical Center of the Rockies, Poudre Valley Health Care Inc, Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation. A funder already writing health checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the health organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
29% of health money in Colorado comes from funders elsewhere, so national health funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Colorado.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a health nonprofit in Colorado?: Start with the funders already giving to health in Colorado, currently Medical Center of the Rockies, Poudre Valley Health Care Inc, Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation. Then look at who funds the health organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Colorado from out of state.
Who is the largest health funder in Colorado?: Medical Center of the Rockies gives the most to health organizations in Colorado, $580M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to health in Colorado?: $4.5B reached 1,590 health organizations in Colorado, from 5,356 funders. 71% came from funders also based in Colorado.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.