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Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc

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.

$242k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$672kHousing & Shelter$431kPhilanthropy$217kCommunity Improvement$119kYouth Development$97kPublic Benefit$95kFood & Nutrition$79kArts & Culture$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESCHOOL$100,000
NOURISH COLORADO$30,500
EDNIUM$25,000
TIDES CENTER$25,000
PHILANTHROPY COLORADO$15,000
FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY$10,000
PAPAGAYO$7,500
RISING ROUTES ALLIANCE$5,000
COLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS$5,000
VIVE WELLNESS$4,250
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
DSST$2,500
ONE STONE INC$1,000
CHARTER SCHOOL INSTITUTE$1,000
BLUUM INC$1,000
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 (FY19–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DZI FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%SOUTH PARK FOOD BANK: $150 → 8%DZI FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5k → 8%DZI FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 12%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $100 → 12%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $40k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $100 → 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

ID
MT
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CO
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MD
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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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$917k · 45 repeat orgs$605k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
86

Total granted

$917k
$545k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+9%

Still filing today

84%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • R
    RESCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2024 · $175k · revenue +76%
  • PC
    PHILANTHROPY COLORADO
    6× · 2019–2024 · $123k · revenue +65%
  • CS
    Colorado Succeeds
    2× · 2021–2022 · $115k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • HH
    HIGH HOPES COLORADO
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +19%
  • L
    LYRA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -60%
  • EM
    EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -39%

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.

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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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2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Association of School Executives

Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education

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4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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6
Great Education Colorado

Great education colorado harnesses the power of grassroots activism and diverse, inclusive networks to guarantee that public schools in every colorado community are welcoming and adequately, equitably, and sustainably funded

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Ascend College Prep

Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…

Education
10
Colorado Learning Connections

Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.

Education
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mt Mountain Mamas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%13%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr14%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%27%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr14%2%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%3/122
the rest of the field
13%
4,867/36,723

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

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 116 of the 155 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/116
Grantees still filing
77/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESCHOOL — $175,025 · EducationRESCHOOLColorado Succeeds — $115,000 · EducationColorado SucceedsLYRA — $50,000 · EducationLYRACharter Facility Solutions — $50,000 · EducationCharter Facility SolutionsTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $37,608 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVERISE COLORADO — $35,000 · EducationMoonshot edVentures — $29,100 · EducationFlame Lily Montessori — $25,000 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationCity Center for Collaborative Learning — $25,000 · EducationYOUTHENTITY — $24,750 · Education+23 more — $98,820 · Education+23 moreIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIGH HOPES COLORADO — $75,000 · OtherHIGH HOPES COLORADOKIPP COLORADO — $30,000 · OtherKIPP COLORADOOXFORD TEACHERS ACADEMY — $30,000 · OtherOXFORD TEACHERS ACADEMYEDNIUM — $26,000 · OtherEDNIUMBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREMONT COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Other+76 more — $166,384 · Other+76 morePHILANTHROPY COLORADO — $122,975 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY C…Rose Community Foundation — $32,500 · PhilanthropyRose Community…THE DENVER FOUNDATION — $10,880 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOU…THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $11,150 · Philanthropy+5 moreTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $81,600 · Community ImprovementCULTIVANDO — $4,157 · Community Improvement+2 more — $3,100 · Community ImprovementEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO — $40,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Human ServicesDZI FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Human Services+6 more — $1,750 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM — $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePAPAGAYO — $7,500 · Arts & CultureInside the Orchestra — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $2,735 · Arts & CultureNOURISH COLORADO — $30,500 · Health+2 more — $250 · Health
Education$690,303Other$442,384Philanthropy$197,505Community Improvement$88,857Human Services$74,750Arts & Culture$71,235Health$30,750

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 budgetRESCHOOL — $175,025 over 3y, 11% of budgetPHILANTHROPY COLORADO — $122,975 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetColorado Succeeds — $115,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $81,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH HOPES COLORADO — $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLYRA — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCharter Facility Solutions — $50,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO — $40,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $37,608 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRISE COLORADO — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO — $30,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMoonshot edVentures — $29,100 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFlame Lily Montessori — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity Center for Collaborative Learning — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTHENTITY — $24,750 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM — $23,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $20,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetILEARN COLLABORATIVE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREMONT COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO FOOD CLUSTER INC — $14,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $10,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY — $10,575 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRODIGY VENTURES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAPAGAYO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Legacy Charter School — $7,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism — $5,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISING ROUTES ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVive — $4,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVANDO — $4,157 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian Academy of Denver — $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC — $3,750 over 1y, 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.

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 Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Colorado Gives Founda…Gates Family Foundati…Caring for Colorado F…Wend II IncMile High United Way …Daniels FundBoettcher FoundationThe Colorado TrustTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…
The Denver FoundationCO96.2× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Wend II Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · Boettcher Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc 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 155 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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