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Erion Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES | $100,000 |
| ART WORKS IN LOVELAND | $24,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $6,000 |
| THOMPSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| LOVELAND MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS | $1,556 |
| FIND YOUR LIGHT THEATRE | $1,000 |
| NOCO HUMANE | $1,000 |
| HEARTS & HORSES INC | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBOR2NEIGHBOR | $1,000 |
| HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE | $1,000 |
| ARTIST CHARITABLE FUND | $1,000 |
| HOMEWARD ALLIANCE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN COLORADO3× · 2022–2024 · $671k · revenue +39% · 76% of their budget
- ACARTWORKS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART7× · 2018–2024 · $244k · revenue +8% · 29% of their budget
- CYCOLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST5× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer Countygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +35%
- HAHARRINGTON ARTS ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
The Home Together Fund, through its private donors, is there in time of need to provide financial assistance so that people affected by disaster have a means to maintain a safe home for their families. The Home Together Fund provides…
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…
First Southwest Community Fund supports the dedicated entrepreneurial spirit of rural Colorado, by investing in the people, culture and ideas that fuel innovation and financial knowledge in our community, with an emphasis on areas of…
L'Arche Northern Colorado is a community of people with and without intellectual disabilities who live work and share life together within a culture of welcome, connection and belonging. We welcome by valuing each person and celebrating…
To provide opportunities for low and moderate income people to secure decent affordable housing and to assure quantity, quality and affordability of housing for future low and moderate income individuals.
Heart & hand center is dedicated to a world with no opportunity gap. by creating a nurturing community, heart & hand empowers all young people to realize their potential.
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
At Birthline Pregnancy Resource Center, our mission is to empower women and their families to navigate unplanned pregnancies with confidence and hope. We provide a safe and supportive environment where individuals can explore their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Artists Charitable Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ARTWORKS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HEARTS & HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND CREATORSPACE ↗
- Who funds Noco Humane ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND STRATEGIC PATRNERSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc · Harry T Thorson Foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community 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 Erion Family Foundation 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.
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.
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