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Hummel Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$26MArts & Culture$2.3MHealth$1.5MFood & Nutrition$268kAnimals$103kYouth Development$64kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.0M
$85,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$750,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$750,000
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TRUST$750,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION$750,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION$500,000
ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$500,000
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER$450,000
FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$85,000
NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION$18,000
ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
SION HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
PAWS OF JACKSON HOLE$5,000
LARIMER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $27k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $205k → 9%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750k → 15%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART: $500k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 10%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $450k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART: $300k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $600k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $496k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $137k → 5%ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85k → 15%ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $513k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%AIMS FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 26 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
5

Total granted

$30M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
-14%

Still filing today

62%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +33%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +36%
  • RU
    ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSISTY OF NORTHERN COLORADO BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • AF
    AIMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -79%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Colorado Farm Bureau

To advance the interest of the colorado farm and ranch community. activities include research and inquiry into the fields of agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, economic and political relations.

4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
5
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
6
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a global intellectual hub located in Canada's most enterprising city. In this spirited, high quality learning environment students will thrive in programs made rich by research, hands-on experiences and…

7
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
8
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation 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.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $4,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVEROHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,666,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $3,515,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $3,210,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $3,112,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+1 more — $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $3,100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURICOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,540,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TR — $1,510,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI…ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $1,487,000 · OtherST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTERTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,056,470 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL — $601,000 · OtherROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOLFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $400,000 · Other+9 more — $541,000 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $800,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY — $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentWELD FOOD BANK — $10,500 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $10,500 · Food & NutritionPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $10,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE — $5,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$19,203,500Other$10,235,470Arts & Culture$800,000Youth Development$203,000Food & Nutrition$21,000Animals$15,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $4,000,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,666,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $3,515,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $3,210,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $3,112,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $800,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $72,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY — $28,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC — $28,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK — $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES
  • Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds WELD FOOD BANK
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County
  • Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Adolph Coors Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Hummel 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hummel Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hummel Family 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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