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Dwb Family Foundation

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.

$365k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
48%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$13,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$53,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$5.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Dwb Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$356k46%
FY202425$334k48%
FY202326$350k54%
FY202229$240k62%
FY202124$330k58%
FY202030$275k63%
FY201927$255k52%
FY201825$255k60%
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$544kHuman Services$432kFood & Nutrition$316kEducation$277kYouth Development$208kAnimals$167kHousing & Shelter$125kRecreation & Sports$103kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 101 grantees
All grantees of Dwb Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Robbies Hope Foundation$86,405811%
Second Wind Fund Inc$81,35047%
THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE$76,75561%
Juan Diez Rancheros Abundant Life Ranchers$70,270527%
Food Bank of the Rockies$61,00050%
Warrior Rising$53,00011%
Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter$52,27061%
Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center$49,92040%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$49,19350%
Seniors' Resource Center Inc$44,79550%
River Bend Food Reservoir$44,48740%
Craig Hospital Foundation$43,48950%
Book Trust$40,00030%
Denver Rescue Mission$34,54540%
Jefferson County Library Foundation$33,30022%
The Wild Animal Sanctuary$33,28630%
Outdoor Lab Foundation$30,62832%
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America$29,17512%
New Kingdom Trailriders$28,33528%
Reach Out and Read Colorado$26,55021%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Denver Inc$26,50040%
River Valley Riders$26,48133%
More Than Words Inc$26,10010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley$25,83721%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Mississippi Valley Inc$25,65021%
Colorado Dream Foundation$25,30021%
Harvest Mountain Ministries$24,85022%
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary$23,34011%
Read to Them Inc$23,34011%
Elevate USA$23,29421%
The Salvation Army$22,8502n/a
Golden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies$22,78612%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$22,75020%
Colorado Uplift Inc$20,29530%
Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc$20,00010%
Judi's House Inc$19,75020%
Brent Eley Foundation$19,50030%
Hire Heroes USA Inc$19,33410%
United Through Reading$19,25020%
Hand in Hand$18,31513%
Living Lands & Waters$18,31511%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$18,28620%
Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc$17,69520%
Cambridge Camping Association Inc$17,50511%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$17,50510%
School on Wheels Inc$16,50010%
International Rett Syndrome Foundation$16,37520%
November Project Inc$15,9001n/a
Children and Youth Justice Center$15,00011%
Honor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman$15,00014%
Nw Share$15,00011%
Iowa Hands & Voices$15,0001n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc$14,58810%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$14,58710%
Roundup River Ranch$14,30020%
The University Heights Center for the Community Association$13,75011%
St Anthony Health Foundation$13,7501n/a
Colorado Youth for a Change$13,75010%
The Eight$13,3301n/a
Hope House of Colorado$13,25010%
The Exodus Road Inc$13,25010%
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc$13,25010%
Goals$12,00013%
Precious Child Inc$11,6701n/a
Girls Education International$11,670116%
Acadia Center$11,25010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,6001n/a
Cambridge Community Center Inc$10,60011%
Victory Service Dogs Inc$10,000110%
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts$10,000113%
Family Tree Inc$10,00010%
Colorado State University Foundation$10,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00010%
The Charlie Cart Project$10,00011%
Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Sewall Child Development Center$10,00010%
Carin Clinic$9,36011%
American Cancer Society Inc$9,00010%
Women's Money Matters Inc$8,75211%
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation$8,50010%
American Hiking Society$8,50011%
Shield 616 Inc$8,50010%
War Horses for Veterans Inc$8,50011%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$8,00010%
The Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc$7,50015%
The Children's Hospital Foundation Inc$7,29410%
Colorado Center for the Blind$6,80010%
Comeback Yoga$6,80012%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$6,80010%
Camfed USA Foundation$6,75010%
Nourish Colorado$6,75010%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$6,00010%
The Trustees of Reservations$5,80010%
Windhorse Guild Inc$5,50012%
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation$5,50010%
Kindness Wins$5,00014%
Ralston House$4,44510%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado$4,44510%
Feeding Many Inc$4,2501n/a
Mount St Vincent Home Inc$2,25010%
Lisa Nelson Memorial Scholarship$2,2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($558k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dwb Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRobbies Hope Foundation: $86,405 over 8y, 11% of budgetSecond Wind Fund Inc: $81,350 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $76,755 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJuan Diez Rancheros Abundant Life Ranchers: $70,270 over 5y, 27% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $61,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWarrior Rising: $53,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $52,270 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center: $49,920 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $49,193 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeniors' Resource Center Inc: $44,795 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRiver Bend Food Reservoir: $44,487 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $43,489 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBook Trust: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $34,545 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJefferson County Library Foundation: $33,300 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $33,286 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoor Lab Foundation: $30,628 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUkrainian Congress Committee of America: $29,175 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNew Kingdom Trailriders: $28,335 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetReach Out and Read Colorado: $26,550 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Denver Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRiver Valley Riders: $26,481 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMore Than Words Inc: $26,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley: $25,837 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Mississippi Valley Inc: $25,650 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetColorado Dream Foundation: $25,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHarvest Mountain Ministries: $24,850 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $23,340 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRead to Them Inc: $23,340 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetElevate USA: $23,294 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGolden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies: $22,786 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $22,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Uplift Inc: $20,295 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSomerville Homeless Coalition Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJudi's House Inc: $19,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBrent Eley Foundation: $19,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHire Heroes USA Inc: $19,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Through Reading: $19,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHand in Hand: $18,315 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLiving Lands & Waters: $18,315 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $18,286 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $17,695 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCambridge Camping Association Inc: $17,505 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWomen's Lunch Place Inc: $17,505 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSchool on Wheels Inc: $16,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $16,375 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren and Youth Justice Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHonor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 91.

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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 FoundationCO47.1× affinity29 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 · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Rose Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na

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.

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Find your warmest path to Dwb 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.

About Dwb Family Foundation

How much does Dwb Family Foundation give?
Dwb Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $365,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dwb Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (16%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Dwb Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Robbies Hope Foundation ($86k), Second Wind Fund Inc ($81k), THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE ($77k).
Does Dwb Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dwb Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dwb Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Janus Henderson Foundation.
Where is Dwb Family Foundation based?
Dwb Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 144 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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