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Garone-Nicksich 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CSU PUEBLO FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| PUEBLO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PUEBLO ANIMAL SHELTER | $11,500 |
| PAWS FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
| CARE & SHARE FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF PUEBLO | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +49%
Care and Share Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +15%- PZPUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- COCITY OF PUEBLOone grant, 2018 · $50k
- PSPUEBLO SCHOOL DISTRICT 70one grant, 2023 · $45k
- PLPUEBLO LIBRARY DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
To support pueblo community health center.
Our mission is to attract, retain, and expand primary jobs for the Pueblo community.
To bring musical artists together to perform concerts for the citizens of the city and county of pueblo.
The organization is organized to perform functions of or to carryout the purposes of the Pueblo City-County Library District including providing resources for development maintenance and operation of the Pueblo City-County Library District…
Fundraising and financial assistance to pueblo community health center
PdNCF supports the philanthropic goals of individuals, families, corporations, foundations and nonprofit organizations to improve education, health, social services, economic development, and quality of life in the Paso del Norte region.
The agency is a conservation Center near Pueblo, CO, where land and people can provide unique experiences in education, conservation and recreation that inspire responsible environmental stewardship.
Provides scholarships for higher education.
Juniper SoCO provides comprehensive healing resources to survivors of sexual assault / intimate partner violence, equipping the community to prevent future sexual violence, & fostering an organizational culture that prioritizes wellness…
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
To address the needs and problems of distressed rural communities through a strategic plan to utilize existing resources and create new opportunities with the collaboration of community members to achieve social change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pueblo Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trees Please Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds POSADA ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TREES PLEASE INC ↗
- Who funds Pueblo Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEDCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation · Southern Colorado Community Foundat · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Frank I Lamb Foundation · Ryals Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Daniels Fund
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 Garone-Nicksich 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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