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.

Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found

Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% 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

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$464k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VOICES FOR CHILDREN	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
YMCA OF BOULDER	$2,500
SMALL CHAMPIONS	$2,500
TGTHR	$2,000
BRECKENRIDGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER	$2,000
BOULDER HUMANE SOCIETY	$2,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$2,000
FAITHFULLY K9 SERVICES DOGS	$2,000
MARIPOSA DR FOUNDATION	$1,500
SUMMIT COUNTY MOUNTAIN RESCUE	$1,500
CARRY THE LOAD	$1,500
WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$1,500
SUMMIT COUNTY HORSE CENTER	$1,500
WOUNDED WORRIORS FOUNDATION	$1,038

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$116k · 22 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$116k

$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+6%

Still filing today

59%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

AI
ATTENTION INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +30%
TW
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +43%
SC
SMALL CHAMPIONS INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +10%

Funded once

VF
Volunteer Florida Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $3k
FS
Forward Steps Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +65%
TR
TEAM RUBICON INC
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%

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.

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

Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals

Ark-Valley Humane Society Inc

Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.

Animals

Northern Colorado Wildlife Center

The mission of Northern Colorado Wildlife Center a 501c3 independent nonprofit is to protect wildlife and the places they call home through wildlife rescue wildlife rehabilitation education and advocacy.

Animals

Colorado Horse Rescue

Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.

Animals

Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc

HSSPV's mission is to be a leader in saving lives and serving communities by providing innovative care for animals, finding loving homes and reuniting families.

Animals

Noco Humane

Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.

Animals

Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals

Colorado Animal Rescue Inc

C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.

Animals

Black Ops Rescue

Transforming the lives of shelter pets and veterans through compassionate assessment, compatible adoptions, and ongoing support.

Animals

Open Sanctuary Project Inc

The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible, always growing digital guide for any resources or information you need in order to responsibly create and successfully manage an animal sanctuary or to provide the best possible care to…

Animals

Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue. 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

31 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. 31 of the 59 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/31

Grantees still filing

19/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$71,990Human Services$36,600Animals$20,850Civil Rights$13,176Recreation & Sports$8,900Health$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$2,000

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

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 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward And Janet Ahlstrand Family Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report 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.

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