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Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation at a glance

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Chris & Joy Dinsdale 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.

$428k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$202k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$673kArts & Culture$405kPhilanthropy$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kCrime & Legal$40kHuman Services$35kInternational$34kEducation$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $389k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$820k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$201,870
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL & SCHOOL$82,930
DENVER ART MUSEUM$54,350
GREENLIGHT FUND DENVER$50,000
FRAME$20,000
CENTUS COUNSELING$10,000
MIZEL INSTITUTE$9,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%Challenge Aspen: $2k → 6%CANINE PARNTERS OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 10%Challenge Aspen: $1k → 6%CANINE PARNTERS OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 10%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 15%CANINE PARNTERS OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 10%The Family Resource Center: $1k → 15%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$870k · 26 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
21

Total granted

$870k
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+3%

Still filing today

73%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $204k · revenue +95%
  • MA
    MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $153k · revenue +12%
  • KW
    KENYA WORKS INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • NT
    NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $334k · revenue -2%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • TR
    THE ROYAL PORTFOLIO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
2
Colorado Health Institute
Health
3
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
4
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
Aia Colorado

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…

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7
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
8
Denver Film Society

The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Careerwise Colorado

Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $334,000 · HealthNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $237,949 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $22,000 · HealthDENVER ART MUSEUM: $204,350 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $152,930 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC+3 more: $15,250 · Arts & CultureGREENLIGHT FUND DENVER: $50,000 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND DEN…TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE: $33,074 · OtherTUBEROUS SCLEROSIS …RALSTON HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $20,000 · OtherRALSTON HOUSE CHILD…FRAME: $20,000 · OtherFRAMETENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · OtherTENNYSON CENTER FOR…THE ROYAL PORTFOLIO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC COLORADO: $9,000 · OtherPROJECT HELPING - KYNDCLUB & KYND U: $8,500 · OtherYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $9,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $8,000 · Other+15 more: $43,400 · Other+15 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Denver Children's Foundation: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $4,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPEN: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesKENYA WORKS INC: $25,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $20,000 · EducationROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $7,860 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational 4-H Council: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 · Youth Development
Health$623,949Arts & Culture$372,530Other$235,974Human Services$87,000Education$45,000Crime & Legal$19,860Youth Development$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $334,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $237,949 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $204,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $152,930 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENYA WORKS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation: $25,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan Counseling Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $7,860 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PLAINS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA COLORADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational 4-H Council: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFine Arts Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDenver Pet Partners: $2,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReturn to Dirt: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetETM-COLORADO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGNITSKY JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …El Pomar FoundationThe Colorado Health F…The Anschutz Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Daniels FundJEWISHColoradoAdolph Coors Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.9× affinity15 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 · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · JEWISHColorado · Adolph Coors Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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