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Braly Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
- $250k+1 grant · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TLC LEARNING CENTER | $265,000 |
| CROSSROADS SCHOOL | $75,500 |
| LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,900 |
| MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| ABSAROKEE SCHOOL | $17,150 |
| I HAVE A DREAM BOCO | $16,500 |
| CALWOOD EDUCATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| RED LODGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $13,750 |
| EL COMITE DE LONGMONT | $12,500 |
| ST VRAIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION EFSVV | $12,000 |
| BLUE SKY BRIDGE | $11,000 |
| SANDSTONE PRESERVATION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH | $8,500 |
| TEXAS FOOD AND WINE ALLIANCE | $5,250 |
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 (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- CSCROSSROADS SCHOOL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $226k · revenue +43%
- CECal-Wood Education Center3× · 2023–2025 · $37k · revenue +16%
- GOGRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- LHLongspeak Hospital Foundationone grant, 2021 · $75k
- BHBranson High Schoolone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CCan'daidone grant, 2021 · $45k
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
To change the lives of people with disabilities by promoting their physical, psychological and social well-being through equine-assisted activities.
To advance veterinary medicine.
CALF is dedicated to connecting all people to agriculture through authentic education programs, community projects and leadership opportunities.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.
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…
Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado
Routt County Humane Society is a community resource that helps animals in need through sheltering, adoption, education, veterinary services and community outreach.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Build, maintain, and advocate for sustainable mountain biking trails in western colorado.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Inner Ocean. 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 15 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 116 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 TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cal-Wood Education Center ↗
- Who funds GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds AEROANGEL INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Food & Wine Alliance fka Austin F&W Alliance ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EL COMITE DE LONGMONT ↗
- Who funds Rise Against Suicide ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The St Vrain Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Longmont Community Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Ray Lanyon Fund · The Denver Foundation · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick Foundation · AEC Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · The Colorado Health Foundation · 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 Braly 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.
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.