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Considine Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$598k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Education$19MReligion$2.8MScience & Tech$1.4MPublic Benefit$287kHealth$203kHuman Services$184kCivil Rights$77kArts & Culture$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPOSITIVE$150,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$40,528
Individual grant recipient$36,000
NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE$30,000
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND$25,000
SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART$22,000
ELM INSTITUTE$20,000
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC PARISH$15,000
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CLASSICAL SCHOOL$15,000
GLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION$13,500
RAPTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION$11,400
FOCUS MINISTRIES INC$10,000
ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC ACADEMY$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 (FY17–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $18k → 6%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: $1k → 7%ELM INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%ELM INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%BRAVER ANGELS: $40k → 17%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 12%THE CULTURE OF FREEDOM INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $50k → 12%THE CHOSED & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%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

ME
NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 63 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
90

Total granted

$19M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+36%

Still filing today

43%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TA
    The Abigail Adams Institute Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $313k · revenue +400%
  • Augustine Institute Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +321%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • HA
    HARVARD ANTONIN SCALIA PROFESSORSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • CS
    CONSIDINE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $430k
  • HP
    HARVARD PROGRAM FOR INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE
    one grant, 2017 · $250k

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
10
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
11
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
12
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wilbur R Trosch Charitable Fd. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportLocal History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-12 Schools
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%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr12%8%35–55yr13%45%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/100
the rest of the field
13%
4,366/33,317

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

87 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 168 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/87
Grantees still filing
68/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMPOSITIVE — $11,920,109 · OtherCOMPOSITIVEHARVARD COLLEGE — $2,175,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGEHARVARD LAW SCHOOL — $1,203,378 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOLHARVARD ANTONIN SCALIA PROFESSORSHIP — $1,000,000 · Other+108 more — $4,103,559 · Other+108 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,315,000 · EducationPresident and Fe…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…The Abigail Adams Institute Inc — $313,309 · EducationThe Abigail Adam…Augustine Institute Inc — $200,000 · EducationAugustine Instit…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $173,612 · EducationFRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION — $162,500 · Education+18 more — $366,225 · Education+18 moreCraig Hospital Foundation — $115,000 · HealthGLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $11,000 · HealthPRION ALLIANCE INC — $11,000 · HealthNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · HealthFORE BATTEN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Health+4 more — $11,500 · HealthCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC — $43,000 · Human ServicesBraver AngelsInc — $40,000 · Human ServicesElm Institute Inc — $35,000 · Human Services+3 more — $6,100 · Human ServicesSOPHIA INSTITUTE — $43,000 · ReligionJOHN JAY INSTITUTE FOR FAITH SOCIETY AND LAW INC — $33,000 · ReligionCATHOLIC SPORTS — $25,000 · ReligionReal Life Catholic — $15,000 · ReligionTHE WILLIAM J SEYMOUR INSTITUTE FOR BLACK CHURCH AND POLICY STUDIES INC — $7,750 · Religion+2 more — $3,500 · ReligionFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC — $50,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Program of the Rockies — $28,715 · Public BenefitINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Public BenefitLibertas Network — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$20,402,046Education$3,530,646Health$182,000Human Services$174,100Religion$127,250Philanthropy$122,000Public Benefit$98,715

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 budgetCOMPOSITIVE — $11,920,109 over 7y, 59% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,315,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc — $313,309 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $173,612 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION — $162,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $115,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education — $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF DINOSAUR RIDGE — $80,725 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC — $43,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc — $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $39,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $39,222 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetElm Institute Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetJOHN JAY INSTITUTE FOR FAITH SOCIETY AND LAW INC — $33,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM — $30,225 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Program of the Rockies — $28,715 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC — $28,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $26,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SPORTS — $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOAK ROSE FUND — $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetThe Morningside Institute Inc — $17,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetDenver Park Trust — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetReal Life Catholic — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRaptor Education Foundation — $14,600 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetGLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRION ALLIANCE INC — $11,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetENDOW — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLibertas Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds COMPOSITIVE
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The Abigail Adams Institute Inc
  • Who funds Augustine Institute Inc
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds FRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation
  • Who funds Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF DINOSAUR RIDGE
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

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.

The Catholic Foundation No ColoradoCO33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · The Denver Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Daniels Fund · Pema Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · El Pomar 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 Considine 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
202122232425
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Considine Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Considine 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 168 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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