· Private foundation
Iron Rose 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS | $15,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| ROARNG FORK RANCH ROPING | $5,000 |
| THE TREE FUND | $2,500 |
| ADVOCATE SAFEHOUSE PROJECT | $2,000 |
| COLORADO ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- RBRIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC4× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +34%
- ASADVOCATE SAFEHOUSE PROJECT5× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +119%
- BBBridging Bionics Foundation3× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +159%
- TBTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +52%
- CMCOLORADO MELANOMA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +32%
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.
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…
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.
CALF is dedicated to connecting all people to agriculture through authentic education programs, community projects and leadership opportunities.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
To advance veterinary medicine.
To provide, train and coordinate volunteer services to abused and neglected children in the 18th & 23rd Judicial District, Colorado.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
To enhance and advance the interests of its member electric cooperatives through a united effort.
Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
Dolores River Boating Advocates protects and enriches the recreational and ecological values of the Dolores River through advocacy, stewardship and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocate Safehouse Project and the most unlike its peers is Roaring Fork Schools Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS ↗
- Who funds RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE SAFEHOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MELANOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bridging Bionics Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Roaring Fork Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds TREE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE NINTH ↗
- Who funds SMILING GOAT RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Animal Rescue 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 · Aspen Community Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Iron Rose 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.