· Private foundation
Caruthers 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $160,000 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $100,000 |
| ISLAND SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CU FOUNDATION FBO BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT | $100,000 |
| SOUTHWEST LLAMA RESCUE INC | $30,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS CHANNEL 6 | $25,000 |
| PARLANDO INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PAUAHI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY5× · 2021–2025 · $317k · revenue +43%
- PIPARLANDO INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +200%
- EHELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- SCSLC6A1 CONNECTone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -67%
- ONODC NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue +109%
- ISISLAND SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $100k
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 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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
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 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…
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is SLC6A1 Connect. 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 43 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 — 4% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 48 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 SLC6A1 CONNECT ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PARLANDO INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES 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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Emsa Fund Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Anchor Point Foundation · AEC Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Caruthers 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.