· Private foundation
KNU For Kids 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOU | $50,000 |
| Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| A WAY OUT | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB LA HARBOR | $40,000 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD | $40,000 |
| ASPEN YOUTH CENTER | $35,000 |
| J F SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $35,000 |
| Assistance League of San Pedro Sout | $30,000 |
| CENTER ON COLFAX | $30,000 |
| WINDWALKERS | $30,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE COLORADO | $30,000 |
| CENTER THEATRE GROUP | $20,000 |
| THE WOODEN FLOOR | $20,000 |
| ASPEN HOPE CENTER | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $360k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of KNU For Kids Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $390k · revenue +25%
- SSSTEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $311k · revenue +145%
- AHASPEN HOPE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +420%
Funded once
- AVASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +84%
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.
To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Youth counseling and mentoring.
The guidance center provides comprehensive mental health treatment to our community's most disadvantaged children and their families struggling with mental illness and abuse, leading them toward a positive and productive future.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Dcac works to improve the lives of children traumatized by sexual abuse, neglect and violence-as well as those who are at high-risk with prevention, education, and direct services. our mission is to prevent abuse strengthen families…
Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…
Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…
Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.
The adaptive sports center enriches the lives of people with disabilities and other specific needs through exceptional outdoor adventures. the successful programs the asc provides are inclusive to families and friends, empower our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement and the most unlike its peers is Assistance League of San Pedro-South Bay. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds A Way Out Inc ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of San Pedro-South Bay ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB 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 · The Thrift Shop · The Thendara Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Zanin Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 KNU For Kids 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.