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Duncan John G Tuw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$398k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Human Services$449kHealth$415kArts & Culture$221kEducation$187kYouth Development$180kHousing & Shelter$173kCommunity Improvement$158kFood & Nutrition$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $268k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY$15,000
PROJECT ANGEL HEART$15,000
COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$15,000
VALLEY INC$12,500
BLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,100
HOPE HOUSE CANON CITY$10,000
VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND INC$10,000
MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER$10,000
ACCESS AFTERSCHOOL$10,000
COLORADO METH PROJECT INC$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DIOCESE OF PUEBLO$10,000
CASA OF PUEBLO$10,000
PUEBLO CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC$10,000
ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDR$10,000
CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA$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 (FY19–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%Family Tree Inc: $10k → 7%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $8k → 12%CANON CITY GOLDEN AGE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH WELLNESS & CMTY CENT: $5k → 18%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $8k → 7%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $15k → 9%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $5k → 10%CAN'D AID FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DIOCESE OF PUEBLO: $10k → 15%HOPE HOUSE CANON CITY: $10k → 17%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $8k → 7%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10k → 7%AURORA INTERCHURCH TASK FORCE INC: $8k → 8%COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS I: $15k → 9%CANON CITY GOLDEN AGE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10k → 7%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $5k → 10%CANON CITY GOLDEN AGE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $8k → 7%WELCOME HOME ALLIANCE FOR VETERANS: $8k → 12%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $8k → 7%TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $5k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR: $5k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR: $5k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $8k → 12%Mt Carmel Wellness & Community Center: $10k → 9%A LITTLE HELP: $10k → 12%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $5k → 12%A WOMANS PLACE INC: $10k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $10k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $10k → 12%A WOMANS PLACE INC: $8k → 12%SENIOR SUPPORT SERVICES: $5k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $2k → 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.

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.
$1.4M · 53 repeat orgs$919k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
89

Total granted

$1.4M
$801k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalYouth 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

  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL HEART
    6× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +65%
  • TC
    THE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +271%
  • GS
    GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS
    3× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • AS
    ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $27k
  • DA
    Denver American Indian Festival
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -88% · 53% of their budget
  • PI
    Partners in Housing Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +38%

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
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
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
Summitstone Health Partners

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…

Health
4
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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5
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
6
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
7
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council

Cbhc's mission is to support community resilience, guide behavioral health innovation, and enhance individual well-being throughout colorado by supporting colorado's community behavioral health safety net providers.

Health
8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
10
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
11
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
12
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Dancing Spirit Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr14%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr14%11%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/143
the rest of the field
14%
3,148/23,303

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

140 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. 140 of the 159 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/140
Grantees still filing
86/140
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherTHE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATIONTHE DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER — $40,000 · OtherCareers in Construction Colorado — $45,000 · Other+74 more — $1,005,040 · Other+74 moreVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesVail Valley Char…HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT — $30,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS OUTREAC…Golden Age Council Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesGolden Age Counc…A WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED — $17,500 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO — $15,500 · Human ServicesB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING — $15,000 · Human ServicesMT CARMEL WELLNESS & COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC — $15,000 · Human Services+22 more — $167,000 · Human Services+22 moreCOLORADO METH PROJECT — $40,000 · HealthCOLORADO …NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $37,500 · HealthNATIONAL …BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthBRENT ELE…SUMMITWEST CARE INC — $10,000 · HealthCHILDRENS SPECIALTY CLINIC OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC — $10,000 · HealthNursing and Therapy Services of Colorado — $10,000 · HealthDENTAL AID — $10,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS — $10,000 · HealthVISITING ANCILLARY SERVICES INC — $7,500 · HealthLIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER ROBERTS — $7,500 · HealthEQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY INC — $7,500 · HealthDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC — $7,000 · Health+4 more — $18,245 · Health+4 moreBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $35,100 · Arts & CultureNEW DANCE THEATRE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY — $22,500 · Arts & CultureDenver American Indian Festival — $20,000 · Arts & CultureACCESS AFTERSCHOOL — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTAKE NOTE COLORADO — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BALLET — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWONDERBOUND — $7,000 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History — $6,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT ANGEL HEART — $77,500 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER — $27,500 · Community ImprovementTOWN OF BRISTOL IMPROVEMENTS BOARD — $23,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health — $10,000 · Community ImprovementGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS — $45,000 · EducationDENVER KIDS INC — $15,000 · EducationDREAM CATCHER THERAPY CENTER INC — $15,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING SOURCE — $10,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationWyatt Academy — $10,000 · EducationCommunity Partnership for Child Development — $10,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $7,500 · EducationYOUTHROOTS — $7,000 · EducationI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County — $5,000 · EducationPUEBLO CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $35,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA — $30,000 · Crime & LegalCASA OF PUEBLO INC — $25,000 · Crime & Legal4 the Children — $10,000 · Crime & LegalRESTORATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS — $10,000 · Crime & LegalHEART AND HAND CENTER — $10,000 · Crime & LegalLa Plata Youth Services — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE PROGRAMS — $7,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,160,040Human Services$340,000Health$190,245Arts & Culture$176,100Community Improvement$148,000Education$144,500Crime & Legal$137,500

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 budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $77,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado — $45,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORADO METH PROJECT — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $35,100 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc — $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPUEBLO CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES SOLUTIONS PLUS — $34,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB — $31,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA — $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT — $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGolden Age Council Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPOSADA — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Street Dog Coalition — $30,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $27,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER — $27,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCASA OF PUEBLO INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHaven House of Montrose Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetColorado Farm to Table Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTOWN OF BRISTOL IMPROVEMENTS BOARD — $23,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetPHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY — $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver American Indian Festival — $20,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS AFTERSCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget365 HEALTH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMT CARMEL WELLNESS & COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTAKE NOTE COLORADO — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM CATCHER THERAPY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 2.8% 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.

El Pomar FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Caring for Colorado F…Rose Community Founda…Daniels FundNathan B & Florence R…Trailhead InstituteThe Edmund T & Eleano…
El Pomar FoundationCO111.7× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Trailhead Institute · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick 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 Duncan John G Tuw 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 · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    66report 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

    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.

    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 159 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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