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Kenneth and Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$806k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MAnimals$1.4MArts & Culture$847kYouth Development$842kFood & Nutrition$686kHealth$459kHuman Services$334kInternational$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $290k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILE HIGH CANINE RESCUE$70,000
LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY$60,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LARIMER COUNTY$60,000
WELD FOOD BANK$50,000
CSU VETERINARY TEACHING HOSP$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WELD COUNTY$45,000
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$45,000
FOODBANK OF LARIMER COUNTY$45,000
BIG BONES CANINE RESCUE$30,000
BOULDER VOICES FOR CHILDREN$25,000
CASA OF LARIMER COUNTY$25,000
TABOR ACADEMY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$23,000
FORT COLLINS SYMPHONY$23,000
FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $20k → 10%CENTERS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $4k → 9%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $20k → 10%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $20k → 10%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $11k → 10%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $10k → 10%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
WY
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 64 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
13

Total granted

$6.6M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+2%

Still filing today

59%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $513k · revenue +90%
  • WF
    WELD FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $361k · revenue +11%
  • LH
    LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CU
    COLORADO UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • DS
    DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

1
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc

C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.

Animals
2
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

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.

Animals
3
Routt County Humane Society

Routt County Humane Society is a community resource that helps animals in need through sheltering, adoption, education, veterinary services and community outreach.

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4
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra

The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Veterinary Medical Association

To advance veterinary medicine.

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6
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
7
Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights
8
Colorado Canine Rescue

Rescuing dogs left homeless for whatever reason and placing them in loving, responsible and committed permanent homes

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9
Colorado Horse Rescue

Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.

Animals
10
Safe Harbor Lab Rescue

To rescue, provide a high level of compassionate care and successfully rehome stray, abandoned or surrendered labrador retrievers giving priority to those in colorado.

Animals
11
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…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Big Bones Canine Rescue Services 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 82 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/48
Grantees still filing
36/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $655,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC: $328,500 · OtherTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INCEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $310,000 · OtherEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSICIndividual grant recipient: $165,000 · OtherTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY: $150,000 · OtherFort Collins Symphony Association: $128,000 · Other+44 more: $1,491,883 · Other+44 moreLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $340,000 · AnimalsLONGMONT HUMANE…Mile High Canine Rescue Inc: $235,000 · AnimalsMile High Canin…BIG BONES CANINE RESCUE SERVICES INC: $205,000 · AnimalsBIG BONES CANIN…THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $110,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL…+6 more: $43,000 · AnimalsWELD FOOD BANK: $360,893 · Food & NutritionWELD FOOD B…The Food Bank for Larimer County: $325,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Ba…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $513,000 · Youth DevelopmentCraig Hospital Foundation: $227,000 · HealthCraig Hospital: $80,000 · HealthBOUNCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTABOR ACADEMY: $200,000 · EducationThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $38,000 · EducationCIPA Education and Literacy Foundation: $37,500 · EducationKRISTI VISOCKY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $16,500 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA: $41,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO: $37,000 · Arts & CultureGREELEY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $33,500 · Arts & CultureBOULDER BALLET: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCENTENNIAL STATE BALLET: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA FORT COLLINS INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,678,383Animals$933,000Food & Nutrition$685,893Youth Development$513,000Health$348,000Education$325,000Arts & Culture$263,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $513,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $360,893 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $340,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC: $328,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $325,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMile High Canine Rescue Inc: $235,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $227,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BONES CANINE RESCUE SERVICES INC: $205,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY: $150,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFort Collins Symphony Association: $128,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM: $100,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties: $90,800 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCraig Hospital: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM: $49,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA: $41,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $40,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $38,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCIPA Education and Literacy Foundation: $37,500 over 6y, 70% of budgetCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO: $37,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREELEY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $33,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE: $23,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBOULDER BALLET: $20,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBOUNCE ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCENTENNIAL STATE BALLET: $20,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetKRISTI VISOCKY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA FORT COLLINS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetBABYLON BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPUG PARTNERS OF NEBRASKA: $9,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGREELEY CHORALE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetThe Pug Queen Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO RUSH SOCCER: $4,350 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTERS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC: $4,200 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVINTAGE DOG RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CANCER CENTERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO PUG RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCREATIVE CONNECTIONS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
  • Who funds Mile High Canine Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BIG BONES CANINE RESCUE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Fort Collins Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOUNCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation ↗

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 FoundationCO52.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Weld Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Monfort Family Foundation · Wenaas Family 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 Kenneth and Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth and Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Kenneth and Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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