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Brighton Community Hospital Association

Brighton, CO · EIN 84-0482695. Reported 63 grants totalling $2,196,562 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

25organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$2,196,562granted, 2021-2024
78%of grantees funded again the next year
30%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Brighton Community Hospital Association, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 30% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 78% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $13,081 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $214,698. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
27 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
17 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
5 grants

2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $225,396 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Platte Valley Medical Center FoundationBrighton, CO$655,139442024
Benevolent Healthcare FoundationCentennial, CO$225,396222024
Almost Home IncBrighton, CO$167,750332024
Benefits in ActionLakewood, CO$131,102332024
Pennock Center for CounselingBrighton, CO$130,400332024
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver IncDenver, CO$110,000332024
Food for HopeEastlake, CO$110,000332024
Housing Authority of BrightonFort Lupton, CO$80,000332024
Richard Lambert FoundationBrighton, CO$80,000442024
Via Mobility ServicesBoulder, CO$79,000442024
Hope at Miracle HouseFort Lupton, CO$55,000332024
Weld Food BankGreeley, CO$55,000332024
A Precious Child IncWestminster, CO$50,000442024
North Range Behavioral HealthGreeley, CO$48,113222024
CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties IncWestminster, CO$41,400332024
Ralston HouseArvada, CO$32,000112024
Colorado Mission of Mercy IncGreeley, CO$30,000112024
Brothers Redevelopment IncEdgewater, CO$24,000442024
School District 27J Capital Facility Fee FoundationBrighton, CO$24,000222023
Calvery Chapel BrightonBrighton, CO$19,600222023
Friends of Barr LakeBrighton, CO$13,081112023
Greater Brighton Chamber of CommerceBrighton, CO$12,000222024
City of Fort LuptonFort Lupton, CO$10,000112023
Southeast Weld County Junior Fair AssociationKeenesburg, CO$8,081112022
Greater Brighton Economic Development CorporationBrighton, CO$5,500112023

19 of 25 (76%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
4 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Food & Nutrition
3 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Mental Health
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20217$204,479$15,000
202218$578,021$20,000
202319$608,016$20,000
202419$806,046$30,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Brighton, CO
$1.1M
Centennial, CO
$225K
Fort Lupton, CO
$145K
Greeley, CO
$133K
Lakewood, CO
$131K
Denver, CO
$110K
Eastlake, CO
$110K
Westminster, CO
$91K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Colorado Gives Foundation13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation8 shared recipientsXcel Energy Foundation8 shared recipientsAnschutz Family Foundation8 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Brighton Community Hospital Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1600 Prairie Center Parkway, Brighton, CO, 80601.

EIN 84-0482695 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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