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Berglund Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO UPLIFT | $10,000 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $10,000 |
| PROMISE KEEPERS | $9,000 |
| EAST WEST MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ELEVATE CHARITIES | $4,000 |
| NEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND | $2,500 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $2,500 |
| FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| PROJECT 127 | $1,500 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATIO | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PKPROMISE KEEPERS5× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +35%
- CUCOLORADO UPLIFT INC3× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +42%
- DHDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- DADENVER ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +95%
- TCTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +167%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVEone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…
To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kempe Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 113 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Deer Hill Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAMEDAY INC ↗
- Who funds Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOMFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Humphreys Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Xcel Energy Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Berglund Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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