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Burrell 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| FEEDING COLORADO | $3,000 |
| ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF COLORADO | $3,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY | $3,000 |
| ROCKY MTN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FNDN | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,750 |
| HERITAGE CAMPS FOR ADOPTIVE FAMILIES | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| RAISE THE FUTURE | $2,000 |
| DENVER POST SEASON TO SHARE | $2,000 |
| DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE SMILE TRAIN | $1,500 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $1,500 |
| BOULDER ELKS YOUTH SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| NIWOT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +43%
- AMACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF COLORADO5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +172%
- DZDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- GHGROWING HOME INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -3%
- VCVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LONGMONTone grant, 2022 · $4k
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +1%
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Rooted in the values of kindness, dignity and social justice, lfsrm strenghtens communities by providing support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families throughout the rocky mountain region.
Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.
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…
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Hope & home creates ways for amazing people to change the lives of children in foster care. as a nondenominational christian charity, hope & home trains, certifies, and actively supports foster families across the state of colorado.…
We envision a colorado where every family is a thriving ecosystem of learning, laughing, and well-being. our mission is to equip parents with the tools and information to be their child's most valuable teacher, trainer, and mentor in life.
The denver police activities league's (pal) mission is to create strong communities by providing under-resourced children with opportunities, exposure, and experiences with the intent of changing young people's lives in a positive way.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raise the Future and the most unlike its peers is African Wildlife Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 53 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 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CAMPS FOR ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION INSTITUTE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary ↗
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 · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Cars for Charity Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Schlessman Foundation Inc
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 Burrell 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% 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.