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Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found

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.

$33k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
18 to 25
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$464k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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$33k42%
FY202421$34k33%
FY202324$33k42%
FY202218$29k39%
FY202125$27kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$36kHuman Services$36kHousing & Shelter$22kCrime & Legal$13kRecreation & Sports$12kPhilanthropy$8kYouth Development$6kInternational$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAttention Inc: $14,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVoices for Children Inc: $13,176 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSmall Champions Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Boulder Valley: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center: $8,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Inc: $5,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMariposa DR Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetForward Steps Foundation: $2,450 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLolas Lucky Day Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSea Shepherd Conservation Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarry the Load: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSuicide Prevention Coalition of Eagle Valley: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness on Wheels: $1,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRocky Mountain Horse Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJunior League of Denver Inc: $752 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Soldiers Child Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiracles Therapeutic Riding Center: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBright Futures: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Shipboard Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlyssa S Animal Sanctuary Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Public Media Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 27.

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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 FoundationCO27.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Gr's Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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How do I get to Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found?

Find your warmest path to Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found 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 Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found

How much does Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found give?
Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found reported 24 grants totaling $33,488 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (23%), Human Services (23%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
Who are Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Attention Inc ($14k), Voices for Children Inc ($13k), The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($10k).
Does Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found 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 Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, Rocky Mountain Health Foundation.
Where is Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found based?
Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found 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 59 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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