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Cranaleith Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cranaleith Foundation Inc

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.

$26M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$26MEducation$1.4MHealth$1.0MArts & Culture$774kInternational$764kFood & Nutrition$589kEnvironment$580kReligion$505kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $280k
  • $250k+4 grants · $26M
$230,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - JEANNE AND FRANK TRAINER FUND$6,449,686
FIDELITY CHARITABLE -SY DONOR FUND$6,439,414
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - L AND L FUND$6,439,362
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - IRONWOOD FUND$6,439,362
CAHN FELLOWSTEACHERS COLLEGE$230,000
CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER$50,000
YIVO INSTITUTE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
HIGH VIEW$10,000
MILE HIGH 360$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $20k → 15%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $20k → 15%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $20k → 15%VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $20k → 15%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%WAYFARING BAND: $6k → 12%WAYFARING BAND: $6k → 12%WAYFARING BAND: $6k → 12%WAYFARING BAND: $3k → 12%SAME CAFE': $10k → 12%SAME CAFE': $10k → 12%DENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT: $100k → 12%DENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT: $20k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $3k → 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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 86 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
55

Total granted

$6.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+5%

Still filing today

70%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    THE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +63%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $325k · revenue +29%
  • BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $370k · revenue -32%
  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION AND RESOLUTION
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • CC
    CO COVID RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
2
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
3
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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4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
350 Colorado

We are a grassroots movement working to build a fossil-free future powered by 100% renewable energy. we empower communities across colorado to join together to fight for environmental justice. through our volunteer-led teams, we use a…

Environment
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
11
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
12
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. 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

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 149 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/93
Grantees still filing
64/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE - JEANNE AND FRANK TRAINER FUND: $6,449,686 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - JEANNE AND FRANK TRAINER FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE -SY DONOR FUND: $6,439,414 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE -SY DONOR FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - IRONWOOD FUND: $6,439,362 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - IRONWOOD FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - L AND L FUND: $6,439,362 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - L AND L FUND+109 more: $5,103,096 · Other+109 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $325,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $255,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $90,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 · Health+3 more: $22,000 · HealthTHE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER: $425,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $158,000 · PhilanthropyHope For The Warriors: $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropySAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $370,000 · EducationSOLDIER STRONG INC: $50,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE: $43,500 · EducationTHE MALALA FUND: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $32,000 · EducationPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $175,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS: $140,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $85,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $50,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $25,000 · InternationalFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $251,596 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Project Inc: $30,000 · Food & NutritionPRO PUBLICA INC: $140,025 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DENVER HOMELESS VOICE: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$30,870,920Health$747,000Philanthropy$668,000Education$515,500International$505,000Food & Nutrition$346,596Arts & Culture$321,025

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER: $425,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $370,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $251,596 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO CARING: $222,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $200,798 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Hastings Center Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $158,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $145,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $140,025 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS: $140,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetDENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT: $120,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStep Denver: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $50,399 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Corps: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK DENVER INC: $49,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $43,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilderness on Wheels: $30,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $29,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds METRO CARING ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
  • Who funds The Hastings Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS ↗
  • Who funds DENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Step Denver ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗

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…Xcel Energy FoundationSchlessman Foundation…The Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…The Janus Henderson F…The Jerry Gart Family…The Anschutz Foundati…Western Union Foundat…Mile High United Way …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO48.1× affinity26 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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF · The Anschutz Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc

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 Cranaleith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cranaleith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 149 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home