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Hynd Blind Fund of the James Hynd Tr

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.

$370k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
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 FY20192025.

Human Services$1.6MHealth$429kArts & Culture$130kEducation$45kEmployment$30kPublic Benefit$20k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER$60,000
OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCES CENTER$55,000
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC$50,000
VIA MOBILITY SERVICES$45,000
CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES$40,000
A SHARED VISION$35,000
AUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORADO$25,000
ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN$25,000
CITY OF BOULDER$20,000
BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $117k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $60k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $53k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $36k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $93k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $50k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $36k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $35k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $30k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $25k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $25k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $97k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $92k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $70k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $45k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $40k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $35k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $35k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $30k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $30k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $30k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $20k → 12%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.
$2.2M · 12 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$2.2M
$20k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & 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

  • SC
    SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $366k · revenue +55%
  • VM
    Via Mobility Services
    7× · 2019–2025 · $337k · revenue +23%
  • OU
    OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $306k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF BOULDER
    one grant, 2025 · $20k

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 Center for the Blind

The colorado center for the blind provides training which enables blind individuals to lead independent productive lives.

Health
2
Connections for Independent Living

To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.

3
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
4
American Council of the Blind of Colorado Inc

A3 is a 501 (c)(3) dedicated to personalized education, training, and support for individuals significantly impacted by vision loss to help them adapt, adjust, and achieve maximum independence.

5
Valley Life for All

Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.

6
Foresight Ski Guides Inc

Foresight promotes safety, fun, and independence for people with blindness or low vision and cultivates an individuals unlimited potential. foresight does this through accessible and goal-oriented outdoor adaptive experiences.

Human Services
7
Ensight Skills Center

To provide people with low vision the services and resources that empower independent and productive living. ensight's programs are designed to help our patients overcome barriers to living life independently and safely. hands-on programs…

Health
8
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
9
Ability Connection Colorado Inc

The organization was incorporated in 1952 to provide Educational, Social and Therapeutic programs and related activities for persons with Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities, as well as research aimed at preventing Cerebral Palsy.

Health
10
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
11
National Federation of the Blind of Colorado

Self-help training and support to blind people.

Health
12
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for People With Disabilities and the most unlike its peers is Boulder Seniors Foundation Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $365,963 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INCVia Mobility Services — $336,963 · Human ServicesVia Mobility ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $293,828 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $186,963 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIESOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $305,567 · OtherOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INCDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $216,963 · OtherDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND…BRIDGE HOUSE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES — $45,385 · OtherBRIDGE HOUSE SUPPORTIVE SERVICESBOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $45,000 · OtherBOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICTBOULDER SENIORS FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 · OtherBOULDER SENIORS FOUNDATION INCBLIND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $30,000 · Other+1 more — $20,000 · OtherA SHARED VISION PARTNERS IN PEDIATRIC BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMP — $211,663 · HealthA SHARED V…AUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA — $130,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,183,717Other$700,915Health$211,663Arts & Culture$130,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $365,963 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetVia Mobility Services — $336,963 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $305,567 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $293,828 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $216,963 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetA SHARED VISION PARTNERS IN PEDIATRIC BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMP — $211,663 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $186,963 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetAUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA — $130,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetBOULDER SENIORS FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 over 3y, 71% of budgetBLIND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% 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 SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds Via Mobility Services
  • Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN
  • Who funds A SHARED VISION PARTNERS IN PEDIATRIC BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMP
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
  • Who funds AUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA
  • Who funds BOULDER SENIORS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BLIND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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.

The Denver FoundationCO21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Hynd Blind Fund of the James Hynd Tr 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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