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Fan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONGYEAR MUSEUM | $28,750 |
| WIDE HORIZON | $22,000 |
| FORT COLLINS SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CSU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BRENTWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| OFF THE HOOK ARTS | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAR | $2,000 |
| MIDWAY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| OPERA FORT COLLINS | $2,000 |
| LOVELAND OPERA THEATRE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FCFort Collins Symphony Association9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +53%
LONGYEAR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +22%- OTOff the Hook Arts9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
- TPTHE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -89%
- VVVONS VISION INCone grant, 2017 · $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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.
The colorado symphony association (csa) is a not-for-profit organization established to fund and operate the colorado symphony orchestra for the enjoyment and benefit of the citizens of metropolitan denver and (cont'd on schedule…
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.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Enriching people's lives through the power of music.*producing the finest performances by the greatest artists*fostering music education, and*promoting a life-long appreciation for the arts
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The mission of the colorado children's chorale is to share professional choral music with the global community by training excellent young performers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Noco Humane. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 WIDE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Collins Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Off the Hook Arts ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA FORT COLLINS INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Noco Humane ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE AQUATIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
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 · The Griffin Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Isabel Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · Tenacre Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Fan 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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