· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MIDWAY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| OPERA FORT COLLINS | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY | $2,000 |
| LOVELAND OPERA THEATRE | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAR | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFort Collins Symphony Association9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +53%
LONGYEAR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +126%- OTOff the Hook Arts9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
- TPTHE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -85%
- VVVONS VISION INCone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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