· Private foundation
Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
- $250k+1 grant · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF FORT COLLINS | $251,226 |
| DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER | $60,000 |
| DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER | $56,694 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER FOR CREATIVITY | $27,000 |
| NO BARRIERS USA | $25,500 |
| FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $16,576 |
| CASA OF LARIMER COUNTY | $15,307 |
| POUDRE RIVER LIBRARY TRUST | $12,500 |
| THE JACOB CENTER | $7,234 |
| RAM STRENGTH LUBICK FOUNDATION | $6,990 |
| RESPITE CARE INC | $5,680 |
| REALITIES FOR CHILDREN | $3,957 |
| CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE | $3,795 |
| LARIMER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,699 |
| FOOTHILLS GATEWAY | $3,506 |
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 (FY17–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- FCFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM5× · 2017–2021 · $215k · revenue +26%
- SASEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +72%
- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer County7× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CSCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -45%
- FCFORT COLLINS LINCOLN CENTERone grant, 2017 · $60k
- GEGARTH ENGLUND BLOOD DONATION CENTERone grant, 2017 · $55k
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.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Rooted in the values of kindness, dignity and social justice, lfsrm strenghtens communities by providing support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families throughout the rocky mountain region.
Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.
Making colorado a better place for children and youth with special healthcare needs.
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.
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.
Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
To bring together essential services for victims, survivors and their children to create a positive pathway forward, and to foster public safety.
To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.
Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Realities for Children Charities and the most unlike its peers is Kawasaki Kids Foundation Kawasaki Kids Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 89 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 NO BARRIERS USA ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENS OF SPRING CREEK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS MUNICIPAL RAILWAY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds POUDRE RIVER LIBRARY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc ↗
- Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
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: Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · United Way of Larimer County · Northern Colorado United for Youth · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Poudre Valley Health Care Inc · Realities for Children Charities · The Food Bank for Larimer County · 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 Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust 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.
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.