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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$13,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WARRIOR RAISING$53,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$32,000
REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO$18,550
COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION$18,550
JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$15,900
NOVEMBER PROJECT$15,900
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB FOUNDATIO$15,900
ST ANTHONYS HEALTH FOUNDATION$13,250
HARVEST MOUNTAIN MINISTRIES DBA J$13,250
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE DENVER$13,250
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$13,250
FRIENDS OF VAIL MOUNTAIN RESCUE$13,250
DOGS INC$13,250
HOPE HOUSE COLORADO$13,250
THE EXODUS ROAD$13,250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $14k → 6%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%DOGS INC: $13k → 10%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 12%Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $9k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 9%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%Victory Service Dogs Inc: $10k → 9%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 8%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 8%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 12%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $9k → 16%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%Honor Flight of the Quad Cities Inc: $15k → 12%FAMILY TREE: $10k → 7%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 12%HOPE HOUSE COLORADO: $13k → 7%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

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 43 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
88

Total granted

$1.5M
$985k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+33%

Still filing today

79%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RH
    Robbies Hope Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +400%
  • SW
    SECOND WIND FUND INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $81k · revenue +150%
  • TA
    THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UC
    UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue -21%
  • DT
    DAILY TABLE (THE URBAN FOOD INITIAT
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • MORE THAN WORDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +33%
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
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
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
5
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

—
6
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
7
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
9
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
10
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
11
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
12
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. 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

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 144 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/96
Grantees still filing
67/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN PEAK: $63,795 · OtherJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $49,920 · Other+83 more: $1,152,272 · Other+83 moreRobbies Hope Foundation: $86,405 · HealthRobbies Hope Fo…Craig Hospital Foundation: $43,489 · HealthCraig Hospital …RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC: $26,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD…RIVER VALLEY RIDERS: $26,481 · HealthRIVER VALLEY RI…BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $19,500 · HealthBRENT ELEY FOUN…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $18,286 · HealthInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $16,375 · HealthNOVEMBER PROJECT INC: $15,900 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $14,588 · Health+12 more: $85,949 · Health+12 moreJUAN DIEZ RANCHEROS ABUNDANT LIFE RANCHERS: $70,270 · Human ServicesJUAN DIEZ RANC…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $49,193 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC: $44,795 · Human ServicesSENIORS' RESOU…DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $34,545 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE …MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $22,750 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTE…SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSOMERVILLE HOM…Honor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $13,250 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $13,250 · Human Services+5 more: $46,152 · Human Services+5 moreSECOND WIND FUND INC: $81,350 · EducationSECOND WIND F…BOOK TRUST: $40,000 · EducationBOOK TRUSTOUTDOOR LAB FOUNDATION: $30,628 · EducationOUTDOOR LAB F…THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $23,860 · EducationTHE JEFFERSON…READ TO THEM INC: $23,340 · EducationREAD TO THEM …ELEVATE USA: $23,294 · EducationELEVATE USACOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $20,295 · EducationCOLORADO UPLI…HIRE HEROES USA INC: $19,334 · EducationHIRE HEROES U…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $16,500 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHE…+3 more: $30,000 · Education+3 moreTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $76,755 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $61,000 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $44,487 · Food & NutritionFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $52,270 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $33,286 · AnimalsGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $22,786 · AnimalsThe Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc: $7,500 · AnimalsWarrior Rising: $53,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $19,750 · PhilanthropyNW SHARE: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,265,987Health$353,473Human Services$329,205Education$308,601Food & Nutrition$182,242Animals$115,842Philanthropy$107,750

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

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 budgetTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $23,860 over 2y, 3.1% 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 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.

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 FoundationThe Janus Henderson F…The Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Denver Children's…Rose FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …Daniels FundHill Foundation Wells…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dwb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dwb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc: 14% of income from government
  • American Hiking Society: 14% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dwb Family Foundation?

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.

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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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