· Private foundation
Gooding Family Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| WINDWALKERS | $10,000 |
| CO PUBLIC RADIO-WYCISK FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HANCOCK COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PETAID COLORADO | $5,000 |
| SENSE OF SECURITY | $5,000 |
| FACE THE CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DENVER HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BIRDS OF PREY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FLAMENCO DENVER | $4,500 |
| STEP 13 | $1,000 |
| DOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- SOSENSE OF SECURITY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +43%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +265%
- FDFLAMENCO DENVER2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- RORAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +55%
- USUSC SWIM WITH MIKEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 engage our community and support the US Forest Service's Dillon Ranger District in stewardship through: adult and youth education and diverse volunteer programs, to preserve and enhance our public lands.
Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado LDAR serves the public as a 501c3 tax exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue of homeless and abandoned animals in Colorado and surrounding areas. We rescue, rehabilitate and find homes…
Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.
Rocky Mountain Puppy Rescue is a group of hardworking fosters and volunteers who work to save the lives of unwanted dogs and puppies around the Colorado area. We focus on the younger animals that, when dumped in a shelter, are often…
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assistance League of Denver and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds FACE THE CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Birds of Prey Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND ↗
- Who funds SENSE OF SECURITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FLAMENCO DENVER ↗
- Who funds Petaid Colorado ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Gooding Family 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.