· Private foundation
For the Future Foundation
The specific purpose of this Organization is to identify, fund and improve nonprofit entities registered under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which are located in and around the underserved rural county of La Plata, Colorado and the United States Territory of Puerto Rico.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Summit Church PR | $48,000 |
| Young Life | $40,910 |
| Cross Bar X Youth | $33,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $30,000 |
| Turning Point | $24,000 |
| Men of Nehemiah | $12,000 |
| Heritage Foundation | $12,000 |
| Hillsdale College Funding | $11,100 |
| Operation Bless | $11,000 |
| Love The Nations | $10,500 |
| Palmas Academy | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Oneness Needs Everyone | $2,400 |
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 US giving — 79% of grant dollars ($736k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($194k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 21% of all-years giving ($194k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of For the Future Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +62%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $69k · revenue +32%- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- 2A2022 ACT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +39%
- UWUT Wealth Management Centerone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SCSummit Churchone grant, 2022 · $24k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Clc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
20 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. 20 of the 62 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds 2022 ACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CLC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEXICO MEDICAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds CROSS BAR X YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Love the Nations Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF BELLVILLE TX TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds ONENESS NEEDS EVERYONE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
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 Serving Southwest Colorado · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Ballantine Family Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 For the Future 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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