· Private foundation
Clough Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE MUSTANGS | $25,000 |
| JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL SHELTER | $22,000 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SHRINER'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MIRACLE FLIGHTS | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION COLROADO | $10,000 |
| A WAY OUT | $10,000 |
| HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| SARAH'S HOME | $10,000 |
| HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| TRACK FORCE 1 | $10,000 |
| JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| MIRACLE FLIGHTS | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- SHSARAH'S HOME CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +308%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +78%- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IFIHMC FLORIDA INSTITUE FOR HUMAN & MACHINE COGNITIONone grant, 2022 · $35k
- DADANIEL'S ACADEMY PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $15k
- RSRIFLE SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2024 · $14k
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.
Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.
Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.
To rescue, provide a high level of compassionate care and successfully rehome stray, abandoned or surrendered labrador retrievers giving priority to those in colorado.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
To change the lives of people with disabilities by promoting their physical, psychological and social well-being through equine-assisted activities.
To prevent the abuse and neglect of horses through rescue and education.
We empower communities around the globe to protect sea turtles, corals, sharks, and the vital marine species and ecosystems they call home through hands-on conservation, education, and sustainable solutions. our team leads reef and beach…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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.
Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Colorado and the most unlike its peers is The Tank Ltd. 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 37 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) — 3% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 80 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 SARAH'S HOME CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Journey Home Animal Center ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS AID KIDS AID ↗
- Who funds Riding Institute for Disabled Equestrians Inc ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ACCESS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A Way Out Inc ↗
- Who funds Reach-Out Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds New Ute Theater Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Nurtured by Nature ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
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: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Good Day Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment 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 Clough 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.
- Gulf Coast Kid's House Inc — 16% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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