In 2022, the Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado infused $3,961,543 million into Southwest Colorado’s nonprofit community.
Last year marked a year of growth for the Community Foundation, including hiring new staff and facilitating new grant sources, such as the La Plata and Archuleta County funds. Strong community impact is demonstrated through the Foundation’s grants-to-operations ratio: $7.42 in grants for every dollar the Foundation spent in operations in 2022.
“Having spearheaded community donations at the Foundation for more than ten years, I am often in awe of the generosity of Southwest Colorado,” says Briggen Wrinkle, Executive Director of the Community Foundation. “We are strategically funding responsive programming for many community needs, such as youth mental health support.” La Plata
The Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado manages over $13 million in investments and is home to more than 80 donor advised funds, organizational funds, designated funds, scholarship funds, fiscal sponsorship funds and field of interest funds. The Community Foundation serves Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, and San Juan counties.
Those grants are broken down as follows:
- $2,901,920 was facilitated through Community Foundation projects and programmatic granting.
- $1,059,623 was granted from Community Foundation donor-advised funds, or DAFs.
Grants were disbursed across various nonprofit sectors in Southwest Colorado and beyond. The top three sectors in which the Foundation facilitated funding were education, human services, and arts and culture organizations. Here is a breakdown by sector:
- $221,937 infused into the animal protection sector
- $423,008 infused into the arts and culture sector
- $91,000 infused into our County/Impact sector
- $1,712,255 infused into the education sector
- $98,858 infused into the environment sector
- $1,206,653 infused into the human services sector
- $88,638 infused into the youth services sector
- $119,194 – infused into other sectors