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A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundation at a glance

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A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$15kEducation$10kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$8kHealth$6kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$1kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,042
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$8,075
WESTERN BORDER COLLIE RESCUE$2,444
EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,508
SPEAKUP REACH OUT$1,042
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$1,040
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$810
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$104
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%HOMESTRETCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%DOJOE FUND: $1k → 10%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 → 17%REBUILD BLACK MOUNTAIN RESILIENCE FUND: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1k → 13%AMY D FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%GRAND COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK: $2k → 7%EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $810 → 8%LUPUS COLORADO: $104 → 8%SKIFAST FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%PEDALING MINDS: $2k → 12%GO4GRAHAM FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%MARYMOOR VELODROME ASSOCIATION: $200 → 9%CHICAGO WOMEN'S ELITE CYCLING: $4k → 14%MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 7%VAIL VALLEY MOUNTAIN TRAILS ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BOULDER: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%MARYMOOR VELODROME ASSOCIATION: $200 → 9%CHICAGO WOMENS ELITE CYCLING: $500 → 14%GRAND FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE COUNT: $1k → 7%NEDERLAND AREA TRAILS ORGANIZATION: $500 → 12%COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $540 → 12%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $696 → 7%WHITELINE ORG: $8k → 12%VAIL VALLEY MT TRAILS ALLIANCE: $500 → 7%EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE COUNT: $500 → 7%VAIL VALLEY MT TRAILS ALLIANCE: $500 → 7%VAIL EDWARDS ROTARY: $500 → 7%EDWARDS ROTARY CLUB: $500 → 7%VAIL EDWARDS ROTARY: $500 → 7%VAIL VALLEY MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSN: $500 → 7%EDWARDS ROTARY: $500 → 7%VALIL VALLEY MOUNTAIN TRAILS ASSOC: $500 → 7%VALIL VALLEY MOUNTAIN TRAILS ASSOC: $150 → 7%SPEAKUP REACH OUT: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +635% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$26k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+635%
0%

Still filing today

44%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +49%
  • VV
    Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association
    2× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue ×16
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +635%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -24%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • GC
    GRAND COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +223%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Pikes Peak Athletic Foundation
Recreation & Sports
3
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
4
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
5
Colorado High School Cycling League

The colorado high school cycling league works to establish and maintain safe, quality high school mountain bike programs in colorado and surrounding states.

Youth Development
6
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
7
Colorado Mountain Bike Association

COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.

Recreation & Sports
8
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
9
Vail-Summit Research & Education Foundat
Education
10
Colorado Springs Sports Corporation

To inspire and advance colorado springs, olympic city usa, and the pikes peak region through sport and community events. as the heart of sports and community events in olympic city usa, colorado springs sports corporation creates…

Recreation & Sports
11
Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
12
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Amy D Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $8,075 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHICAGO WOMEN'S ELITE CYCLING: $4,000 · OtherCHICAGO WOMEN'S ELITE CYCLINGWESTERN BORDER COLLIE RESCUE: $3,444 · OtherWESTERN BORDER COLLIE RESCUEREBUILD BLACK MOUNTAIN RESILIENCE FUND: $1,585 · OtherREBUILD BLACK MOUNTAIN RESILIENCE FUNDCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BOULDER: $1,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BOULDERHOMESTRETCH FOUNDATION: $1,057 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,040 · OtherDOJOE FUND: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherVAIL VALLEY MT TRAILS ALLIANCE: $1,000 · Other+6 more: $3,064 · Other+6 moreFRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER: $12,032 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF COLORADO…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF D…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY: $1,600 · EducationEDUCATION FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,563 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…PEDALING MINDS INC: $1,500 · EducationPEDALING MINDS …GRAND COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $2,430 · HealthGRAND COUNT…GO4GRAHAM: $2,000 · HealthGO4GRAHAMSUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY: $1,042 · HealthSUICIDE PRE…SKIFAST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthSKIFAST FOU…VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $534 · HealthVAIL HEALTH…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 · HealthAMERICAN FO…Columbine Community Foundation: $5,078 · PhilanthropyColumbine …EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,508 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALL…MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER: $5,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN …VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $696 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALL…THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $540 · Community ImprovementTHE COLOR…Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association: $2,000 · EnvironmentMARYMOOR VELODROME ASSOCIATION: $400 · Recreation & SportsAMY D FOUNDATION: $100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$26,765Public Safety & Disaster$12,032Education$9,663Health$7,506Philanthropy$6,586Community Improvement$6,236Environment$2,000Recreation & Sports$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER: $12,032 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetColumbine Community Foundation: $5,078 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $2,430 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGO4GRAHAM: $2,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetVail Valley Mountain Bike Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY: $1,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,563 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDALING MINDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $696 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $534 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOOR VELODROME ASSOCIATION: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMY D FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Summit FoundationThe Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Summit Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to A Graham and Louise Powers Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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