· Private foundation
Centennial Lending a Hand 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SAVA CENTER | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $2,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $1,500 |
| MERIDIAN TRUST FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CARBON VALLEY SANTA COPS | $1,500 |
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $1,500 |
| HOPE KIDS COLORADO | $1,500 |
| CHILDSAFE COLORADO | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF FOSTER FAMILIES | $1,500 |
| LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH | $1,000 |
| A WOMANS PLACE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 46% of Centennial Lending a Hand Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 45%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 15 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +69%- LHLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +24%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CHOICE CREDIT UNIONone grant, 2022 · $13k
- ACATLANTIC CITY FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONone grant, 2022 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $11k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…
We support, guide, and connect the community and individuals in times of crisis.
To provide crisis intervention, advocacy and support to victims of crime. The EVCA operates a Community Safe House to house victims of domestic violence and provides office and meeting space to the Organization
Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…
To provide emergency shelter and supportive services to victims of domestic and sexual violence.
To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
S.a.f.e. house is a community based non-profit organization committed to stop abuse in the family environment by providing a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling,…
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
Domestic and sexual violence intervention, support, and education.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Inc ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Weld Trust · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · United Way of Weld County Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Northern Colorado United for Youth · Weld Community Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Centennial Lending a Hand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Centennial Lending a Hand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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