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Giving Brands

The mission is to inspire local men and women, who are committed to making a difference in their communities.

$367k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$351kHuman Services$304kFood & Nutrition$106kHousing & Shelter$104kYouth Development$81kReligion$69kCommunity Improvement$68kCrime & Legal$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $245,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $366,883 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $121,133 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $149k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
$7,900
Median grant
5
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS$17,300
KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES$16,850
PRETTY LAKE CAMP$16,150
HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE$14,800
CULTIVATE$11,500
HOME AHEAD$10,550
COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE$10,100
HANDS OF THE CARPENTER$9,950
ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER$8,950
YANAM2M$8,950
CARUSO FAMILY CHARITIES$8,550
TETON COUNTY SHERIFFS AUX$8,450
CWA LITTLETON INC$8,350
FUND FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION$7,900
BRIDGER TETON AVALANCHE$7,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PCS FOR PEOPLE: $7k → 14%SPECIAL ABILITIES OF NORTH TX: $26k → 8%ENRICHED LIVING: $6k → 11%YANAM2M: $9k → 3%ANCHOR HOUSE: $6k → 5%HOPE HOUSE COLORADO: $8k → 7%HEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $8k → 11%PATHWAYS HOSPICE: $7k → 12%AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 7%CLIMB WYOMING: $9k → 10%MY CHOSEN ONES INC: $26k → 11%2EXTREME FOUNDTION INC: $6k → 7%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD CO: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $7k → 12%JACKSON HOLE THERAPUETIC RIDI: $7k → 5%CLIMB WYOMING: $9k → 10%KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES: $17k → 12%GRACE UPON GRACE PROJECT: $6k → 9%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $6k → 12%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $10k → 7%AVERYS LIGHT: $6k → 9%CHILDRENS SPEECH & READING C: $6k → 11%COMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER: $19k → 12%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $7k → 11%HONORING OUR VETERANS: $9k → 5%OUTREACH FORT COLLINGS: $6k → 11%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTE: $12k → 12%KAIROS DWELLING: $19k → 12%CAMP FOR CHANGE INC: $13k → 12%AACORN FARM INC: $17k → 12%JACKSON FOOD CUPBOARD: $7k → 5%3HOPEFUL HEARTS: $6k → 11%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANC: $15k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $12k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABI: $12k → 12%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
WY
PA
NJ
CO
MO
VA
AZ
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 3 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
95

Total granted

$51k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +16%
  • CD
    CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING
    2× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +33%
  • CK
    COMMUNITY KITCHEN
    2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue -21%
  • RH
    Ranch Hands Rescuegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +200%
  • DF
    DENTON FREEDOM HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
3
Hope and Home

Hope & home creates ways for amazing people to change the lives of children in foster care. as a nondenominational christian charity, hope & home trains, certifies, and actively supports foster families across the state of colorado.…

Human Services
4
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
5
Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement

The mission of the organization is to provide life-sustaining services and programsfocusing on dignity, empowerment and self-sufficiency. the organization provides the onlyyear-round overnight service center for the homeless community in…

Human Services
6
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
7
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
8
Sunshine Home Share Colorado

Sunshine home share colorado ensures quality of life for older adults and strengthens communities through a safe home-sharing model, supportive economic empowerment, and connections to resources and services.

Housing & Shelter
9
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
10
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
11
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc

To create avenues to stable housing for our community's homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter.

Housing & Shelter
12
Mountain Home Montana Inc

To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers; the most unlike its peers is HOPE4YOUTH Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/113
Grantees still filing
63/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

My Chosen Ones Inc: $26,000 · Human ServicesMy Chosen Ones IncSpecial Abilities of North Texas Inc: $25,500 · Human ServicesSpecial Abilities of North Texas…COMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $18,700 · Human ServicesKAIROS DWELLING: $18,600 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $18,000 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES: $16,850 · Human ServicesAACORN FARM INC: $16,800 · Human ServicesFIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $15,200 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $15,100 · Human ServicesCamp For Change: $13,200 · Human Services+27 more: $207,750 · Human Services+27 moreCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $28,800 · OtherJOURNEY TO A DREAM FOUNDATION: $26,100 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH: $26,000 · OtherDENTON FREEDOM HOUSE: $26,100 · OtherRanch Hands Rescue: $26,300 · Other+44 more: $422,700 · Other+44 moreLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $13,500 · HealthLENDING HA…THE LIV PROJECT: $13,400 · HealthTHE LIV PR…HOPE4YOUTH CANCER FOUNDATION: $13,400 · HealthHOPE4YOUTH…Rise Against Suicide: $12,300 · HealthRise Again…STRIPPING FOR A CURE: $10,100 · HealthSTRIPPING …TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $8,300 · HealthTETON YOUT…ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 · HealthROCKY MOUN…TETON COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: $7,400 · HealthTETON COUN…St John's Health Foundation: $7,200 · HealthSt John's …SOBRIETY HOUSE INC: $7,150 · HealthSOBRIETY H…Dementia Together: $6,800 · HealthDown for a Cure Inc: $6,700 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $6,300 · HealthHOPEKIDS INC: $5,900 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $5,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $21,200 · Food & NutritionTWELVE BASKETS: $14,600 · Food & NutritionCOAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS: $13,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY KITCHEN: $12,100 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $11,600 · Food & NutritionHole Food Rescue: $6,400 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,500 · Food & NutritionBackpack Society: $5,400 · Food & NutritionGirls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo: $16,300 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE 4 Youth: $15,800 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $13,700 · Youth DevelopmentThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $9,900 · Youth DevelopmentCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $9,750 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE HOUSE NORTHERN COLORADO: $5,800 · Youth DevelopmentHoopsters Classic Association DBA Action Matters: $19,200 · Recreation & SportsKalamazoo Soccer Club: $18,300 · Recreation & SportsPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC: $16,150 · Recreation & SportsTETON JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $6,450 · Recreation & SportsFIRST DESCENTS: $6,300 · Recreation & SportsKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION: $18,200 · Community ImprovementMISSIONAL CHAPLAINS INCORPORATED: $17,300 · Community ImprovementLouisville Rising: $13,100 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $6,900 · Community Improvement
Human Services$391,700Other$556,000Health$131,450Food & Nutrition$89,800Youth Development$71,250Recreation & Sports$66,400Community Improvement$55,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $28,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue: $26,300 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDENTON FREEDOM HOUSE: $26,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMy Chosen Ones Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSpecial Abilities of North Texas Inc: $25,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $21,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHoopsters Classic Association DBA Action Matters: $19,200 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCOMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $18,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKAIROS DWELLING: $18,600 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetKalamazoo Soccer Club: $18,300 over 1y, 20% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION: $18,200 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSIONAL CHAPLAINS INCORPORATED: $17,300 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetAACORN FARM INC: $16,800 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo: $16,300 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $15,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $15,200 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $15,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTWELVE BASKETS: $14,600 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO: $14,400 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLOCAL LOVE - A MOMENT OF KINDNESS: $14,100 over 1y, 17% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $13,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $13,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE LIV PROJECT: $13,400 over 1y, 19% of budgetCamp For Change: $13,200 over 1y, 18% of budgetLouisville Rising: $13,100 over 1y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS: $13,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $12,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVEHOODS: $12,400 over 1y, 13% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $12,300 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $12,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN: $12,100 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATTENTION INC: $11,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $11,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeAhead: $10,550 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBROOMFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTRIPPING FOR A CURE: $10,100 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties: $9,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $9,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $9,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSLOW FOOD IN THE TETONS INC: $9,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYANAM2M: $8,950 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHonoring Our Veterans: $8,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetALPHA CENTER: $8,350 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCWA LITTLETON INC: $8,350 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Harold and Grace Upjo…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Community Foundation …Kalamazoo Community F…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Anschutz Family Found…Otter Cares Foundatio…First Interstate Banc…The Brooks FoundationMarvin and Rosalie Ok…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO43.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Brooks Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Giving Brands funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giving Brands. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Anchor House Inc: 45% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Giving Brands?

Find your warmest path to Giving Brands through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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