United Way of Pueblo County
Pueblo, CO · EIN 84-0404917. Reported 73 grants totalling $1,782,032 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Pueblo County, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $34,664; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $81,176. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
24 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $570,000 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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pueblo Cooperative Care Center | Pueblo, CO | $206,641 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County | Pueblo, CO | $191,324 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| East Side Child Care Center Inc | Pueblo, CO | $155,734 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Southside Childrens Center | Pueblo, CO | $130,084 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Posada | Pueblo, CO | $101,332 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pueblo Child Advocacy Center Inc | Pueblo, CO | $95,021 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chaffee County Community Foundation | Buena Vista, CO | $65,517 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Senior Resource Development Agency Pueblo Inc | Pueblo, CO | $62,600 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Friendly Harbor | Pueblo, CO | $59,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mariposa Center for Safety | Pueblo, CO | $51,959 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Southern Colorado Theatre Company | Pueblo, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Colorado Harm Reduction Association | Pueblo, CO | $49,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo Inc | Pueblo, CO | $45,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southeastern Colorado Area Health Edctn Ctr for Rural Co Health Inc | Pueblo, CO | $44,473 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation | Pueblo, CO | $42,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guidestone | Salida, CO | $40,177 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $35,315 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Museum of Friends | Walsenburg, CO | $29,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Colorado Spay & Neuter Association | Pueblo, CO | $27,860 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center | Beulah, CO | $25,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pueblo Triple Aim Corporation for Pueblo Fire Department Directing Others T | Pueblo, CO | $23,017 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $21,450 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Community Shares of Colorado Inc | Denver, CO | $20,535 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Achieve Inc | Buena Vista, CO | $17,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wet Mountain Valley Community Foundation Inc | Westcliffe, CO | $17,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bessemer Historical Society Inc | Pueblo, CO | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elevateher | Buena Vista, CO | $17,475 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chaffee County | Salida, CO | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pueblo Rape Crisis Services Inc | Pueblo, CO | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Spark the Change | Pueblo, CO | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Alliance Against Domestic Abuse | Salida, CO | $12,381 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spanish Peaks Community Foundation Inc | Walsenburg, CO | $11,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chaffee County Early Childhood Council Inc | Salida, CO | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friendly Harbor | Pueblo, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rocky Mtn Children's Law Center | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chaffee Housing Trust | Buena Vista, CO | $8,218 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado - Pueblo District | Pueblo, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Colorado Youth Development | Pueblo, CO | $6,286 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Disabilities | Pueblo, CO | $6,143 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wardog Ranch Reins of Change | Pueblo, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pueblo Rescue Mission | Pueblo, CO | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
13 of 41 (32%) 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.
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.
- Boys and Girls Club
Youth Development Program and Becoming Trauma Informed Care Clubhouses - Pueblo Cooperative Care Center
Food Sack/Medical Prescriptions/Local Transportion/Basic Needs/Nutrition on Wheels, mobile showers - East Side Child Care Center
Quality Day Care on a Sliding Fee Scale - Pueblo Child Advocacy Center
Child Abuse Investigation & Prevention - Mariposa Center for Safety (formerly Ywca)
YWCA Trauma-Informed Advocacy, Training, and Services for clients with Mental Health and Request, DV shelter - Posada
Posada Senior services, emergency shelter
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 41 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $296,215 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 13 | $290,000 | $15,160 |
| 2022 | 11 | $280,000 | $22,799 |
| 2023 | 30 | $915,817 | $26,730 |
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
97% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
- 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 United Way of Pueblo County's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 11566, Pueblo, CO, 81001.
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