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Blain Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$94kEducation$50kFood & Nutrition$31kHealth$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kHuman Services$24kCrime & Legal$8kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$381k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC$20,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO$6,000
DYNAMIC CATHOLIC$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH$4,000
A CARING PREGNANCY CENTER$4,000
CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK FOR SOUTHERN COLORADO$2,500
PUEBLO COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN INC$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PUEBLO$1,000
ST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$1,000
KINGS CARE FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%SPANISH PEAKS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%SPANISH PEAKS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%PUEBLO COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
CO
KY
VA
TN
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Blain Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Blain Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$225k · 13 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$225k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+23%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $59k · revenue +77%
  • Care and Share Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +15%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +24%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS DE SALES
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • HC
    HOPE CENTER IN LAMAR
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
2
El Puente Foundation
Environment
3
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
California Polytechnic State University Foundation

To provide and augment programs that are an integral part of the educational mission of the university, primarily in the acquisition, investment and administration of gifts and endowments for the benefit of the university.

Education
5
Society of St Vincent de Paul Tucson

The mission of SSVDP is to promote the spiritual growth of its members through prayer, friendship, and service to others.

Religion
6
Pablo Sandoval Family Foundation Inc

At 23, Sandoval used jokes about his weight as a catalyst for teaming with the American Heart Association to urge kids to stay healthy. He spoke in his native language to elementary-school-age kids at San Franciscos predominantly Hispanic…

Human Services
7
The Pulsera Project

The pulsera project's mission is to create a more just and colorful world through the education and empowerment of central american communities and u.s. students. see schedule o.

Philanthropy
8
Pueblo Library Foundation

The organization is organized to perform functions of or to carryout the purposes of the Pueblo City-County Library District including providing resources for development maintenance and operation of the Pueblo City-County Library District…

Philanthropy
9
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
10
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo Inc

The mission of catholic charities of southern colorado, an organization with a long tradition of strengthening families and individuals, is to empower people to live whole and healthy lives to reach their fullest potential (continued on…

Human Services
11
The Catholic Foundation No Colorado

The foundation is called by jesus christ: to promote the mission of the church in northern colorado by encouraging financial stewardship; to faithfully steward and distribute funds entrusted to the foundation; and to cooperate with…

Religion
12
St Peter Catholic

St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Diocese of Pueblo Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dynamic Catholic Institute. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC — $59,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INCLA VETA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT — $20,000 · OtherLA VETA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $18,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADOA CARING PREGNANCY CENTER — $15,600 · OtherA CARING PREGNANCY CENTERCHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH — $13,800 · OtherCHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCHST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $11,000 · OtherST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOLST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH — $9,000 · OtherST FRANCIS DE SALES — $6,000 · Other+9 more — $19,896 · Other+9 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER T…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE U…Villa Bella Expeditionary School — $2,400 · EducationVilla Bella Expe…Care and Share Inc — $29,500 · Food & NutritionCare and Sha…THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $10,000 · ReligionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesSpanish Peaks Healthcare Foundation — $2,000 · Human ServicesPUEBLO COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN — $1,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF PUEBLO INC — $7,600 · Crime & LegalLAVETA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AUXILIARY — $2,542 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$172,296Education$39,400Food & Nutrition$29,500Religion$10,000Human Services$8,000Crime & Legal$7,600Public Safety & Disaster$2,542

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC — $59,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCare and Share Inc — $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF PUEBLO INC — $7,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAVETA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AUXILIARY — $2,542 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVilla Bella Expeditionary School — $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLC6A1 CONNECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpanish Peaks Healthcare Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUEBLO COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Blain Family Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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