How much does Gr's Foundation give?

Gr's Foundation reported 114 grants totaling $329,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Gr's Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Animals (16%), Education (15%).

Who are Gr's Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($394k), University of Colorado Foundation ($163k), Voices for Children Inc ($118k).

Does Gr's Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gr's Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gr's Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation.

Where is Gr's Foundation based?

Gr's Foundation is based in KS.

Gr's Foundation

Gr's Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Gr's 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.

$330k

Granted FY2025still arriving

114

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$534kAnimals$474kEducation$436kPublic Safety & Disaster$432kHealth$253kHuman Services$199kArts & Culture$193kFood & Nutrition$191kOther$0

02FY2025 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k108 grants · $265k
$10k–50k6 grants · $65k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL	$15,000
THE CENTER ON COLFAX	$10,000
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$10,000
CENTENNIAL STATE BALLET	$10,000
BOULDER VOICES FOR CHILDREN	$10,000
BIG GUMDROP OUTDOORS	$10,000
NIWOT HIGH SCHOOL	$9,000
Individual grant recipient	$8,000
THE ARTS HUB	$7,500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$6,000
RIDER TOWN SPORTS	$5,000
AUSTIN CAMERATA	$5,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MARTIAL ARTS	$5,000
ANGEL FLIGHT CENTRAL INC	$5,000
CAL-WOOD EDUCATION CENTER	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 104 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 76 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104

Total granted

$2.2M

$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+18%

Still filing today

81%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

TW
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
8× · 2017–2025 · $394k · revenue +124%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
4× · 2017–2020 · $163k · revenue +79%
VF
VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +210%

Funded once

GC
GRAND COUNTY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k
WF
WYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
one grant, 2022 · $25k
FL
FUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -87%

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.

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

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Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment

Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal

Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment

Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

—

Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition

Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County; the most unlike its peers is 917 Society. 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

149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 149 of the 191 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

145/149

Grantees still filing

92/149

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,519,090Animals$419,750Education$264,480Health$247,275Public Safety & Disaster$231,500Human Services$159,750Arts & Culture$149,001

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO68.7× affinity55 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · AEC Trust · Rose Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers 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 Gr's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gr's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

55report 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 Gr's Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gr's Foundation 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home