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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $245,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $366,883 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $121,133 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| YANAM2M | $8,950 |
| ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER | $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 |
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 (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 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
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +16%
- CDCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING2× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +33%
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERSone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue -20%
- RHRanch Hands Rescuegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +200%
- DFDENTON FREEDOM HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +6%
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.
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…
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…
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.…
CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.
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…
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
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…
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.
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,…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
To create avenues to stable housing for our community's homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and 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.
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.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
113 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. 113 of the 124 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 COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
- Who funds DENTON FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds My Chosen Ones Inc ↗
- Who funds Special Abilities of North Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Hoopsters Classic Association DBA Action Matters ↗
- Who funds COMSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KAIROS DWELLING ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Soccer Club ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONAL CHAPLAINS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds AACORN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds TWELVE BASKETS ↗
- Who funds READ AND WRITE KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds LOCAL LOVE - A MOMENT OF KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds LENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIV PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Camp For Change ↗
- Who funds Louisville Rising ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BIRTHDAY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
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
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 Giving Brands 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.
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
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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