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Bushong 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.

$390k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$791kYouth Development$352kHuman Services$327kEducation$209kRecreation & Sports$185kCivil Rights$150kCrime & Legal$115kFood & Nutrition$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $362k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$44,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC$25,000
COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE$25,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$25,000
THRIVE CENTER$25,000
COLORADO HORSE RESCUE NETWORK$25,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE INCORPORATED$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$13,300
ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK$13,300
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$13,300
FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ORGANIZATION INC$13,050
CENTENNIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO R-1$13,050
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$12,000
BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC$10,000
4 PAWS 4 LIFE RESCUE$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THRIVE CENTER: $25k → 8%PARENT EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR KIDS INC: $20k → 9%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC: $6k → 6%THRIVE CENTER: $20k → 8%PARENT EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR KIDS INC: $18k → 9%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC: $5k → 6%THRIVE CENTER: $18k → 8%PARENT EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR KIDS INC: $18k → 9%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC: $5k → 6%THRIVE CENTER: $18k → 8%PARENT EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR KIDS INC: $15k → 9%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC: $5k → 6%THRIVE CENTER: $15k → 8%PARENT EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 9%THRIVE CENTER: $10k → 8%PARENT EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 9%THRIVE CENTER: $10k → 8%PARENT EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 9%THRIVE CENTER: $10k → 8%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

VT
MT
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 32 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
8

Total granted

$2.2M
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-18%

Still filing today

78%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • CY
    COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +132%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +47%
  • CH
    COLORADO HORSE RESCUE NETWORK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +546%

Funded once

  • 5F
    5430 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +12%

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
Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals
2
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
3
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
4
Front Range German Shepherd Rescue Inc

Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.

Animals
5
Colorado Puppy Rescue of Colorado

Animal Rescue and Adoption

Animals
6
Noco Humane

Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.

Animals
7
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
8
Colorado Nature League

To protect, conserve, and restore colorado's native wildlife and habitats. we champion science-based, innovative, collaborative solutions for managing colorado's iconic wildlife and biodiversity, protecting them from threats like habitat…

Environment
9
Paws On the Ground Colorado

dog rescue and adoption

Animals
10
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
11
Good Dog Rescue

To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.

Animals
12
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsCancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …School Parent OrganizationsFood Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/49
the rest of the field
13%
4,366/33,368

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 54 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
26/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF SOUND HORSES INC — $185,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF SOUND HORSES INCCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE NETWORK — $175,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE NETWORKDrifters Hearts of Hope Inc — $120,000 · AnimalsDrifters Hearts of Hope IncCOLORADO PET PANTRY — $84,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO PET PANTRYPEACE LOVE & PAWS INC — $70,000 · AnimalsPEACE LOVE & PAWS INCCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $25,000 · Animals+7 more — $76,500 · Animals+7 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $176,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC5430 FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other5430 FOUNDATIONHORSE CARE PROGRAM — $80,000 · OtherHORSE CARE PROGRAMUNIVERSITY OF DENVER - OFFICE OF GIFT PROCESSING — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER - OFFICE OF GIFT PROC…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $55,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADONew Genesis Inc — $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE — $40,000 · OtherENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO — $60,000 · OtherENERGY OUTREACH COLORADOInternational Rescue Committee INC — $35,800 · OtherRose Community Foundation — $55,000 · OtherRose Community Foundation+19 more — $222,050 · Other+19 moreThrive Center — $126,000 · Human ServicesThrive Cen…PEAK PARENT CENTER INC — $101,000 · Human ServicesPEAK PAREN…ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesASSOCIATIO…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $119,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $99,800 · Civil RightsROCKY MOU…COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $176,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $40,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $27,800 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $20,500 · EducationFairview High School Parents Organi — $17,550 · EducationMANHATTAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO — $10,000 · EducationFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $110,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$735,500Other$948,850Human Services$247,500Civil Rights$218,800Youth Development$176,000Education$116,350Food & Nutrition$110,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF SOUND HORSES INC — $185,000 over 7y, 99% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $176,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $176,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE NETWORK — $175,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetThrive Center — $126,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetDrifters Hearts of Hope Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $119,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEAK PARENT CENTER INC — $101,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budget5430 FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $99,800 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO PET PANTRY — $84,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetHORSE CARE PROGRAM — $80,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetPEACE LOVE & PAWS INC — $70,000 over 5y, 75% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Genesis Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $35,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $27,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC — $20,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PUERTO RICO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFairview High School Parents Organi — $17,550 over 2y, 14% of budgetRAZOM INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 12 EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMANHATTAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO — $10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHT TO READ OF WELD COUNTY INC JOHN HAEFELI PRESIDENT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS STREET DOG ADVOCATES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,000 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationEl Pomar FoundationGary PhilanthropyRose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …The Pfizer Foundation…Greater Good CharitiesLibertygives Foundati…Banfield FoundationXcel Energy FoundationWestern Union Foundat…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO29.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Greater Good Charities · Libertygives Foundation · Banfield Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Western Union 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 Bushong 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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