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Kullgren Fam Charitable Tr at a glance

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Kullgren Fam Charitable 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$126kAnimals$64kFood & Nutrition$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kRecreation & Sports$30kCommunity Improvement$28kHealth$25kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$661k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
PROJECT ANGEL HEART$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
Break Bread$3,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$3,000
Yampa Valley Community Foundation$3,000
DONOR ALLIANCE$3,000
Animal Rescue of the Rockies$3,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HONOR FLIGHT$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
MAKE-A-WISH$2,500
MAX FUND ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER$2,500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO$2,500
DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $5k → 8%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $2k → 8%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $5k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $3k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $3k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $3k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $3k → 12%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$338k · 13 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$338k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+41%

Still filing today

46%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +57%
  • DD
    DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +254%
  • TM
    THE MAXFUND INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • KD
    KENT DENVER SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • DK
    DENVER KIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +33%
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 Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
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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4
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
6
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
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
Goodwill Industries of Denver

Goodwill's mission is to provide education, career development, and employment opportunities to help coloradans in need achieve self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope through the power of work.

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9
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
10
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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11
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation

Support the work of the denver health and hospital authority in its mission to sustain and advance the health and well-being of denver, colorado and the rocky mountain region.

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12
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Honor Flight. 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

18 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. 18 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS: $30,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSAMERICAN RED CROSS: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSMAKE-A-WISH: $27,500 · OtherMAKE-A-WISHSALVATION ARMY: $25,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF: $17,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OFSEEDS OF HOPE: $14,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPE+17 more: $44,500 · Other+17 moreDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $30,500 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIEND…THE MAXFUND INC: $30,500 · AnimalsTHE MAXFUND INCANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 · AnimalsDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $33,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE M…RAISE THE FUTURE: $22,000 · Human ServicesRAISE THE FUTUR…SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $29,500 · Recreation & SportsPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $28,000 · Community ImprovementDENVER KIDS INC: $3,000 · EducationDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationDONOR ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,000 · Health
Other$208,500Animals$64,000Human Services$55,000Recreation & Sports$29,500Community Improvement$28,000Education$5,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $33,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC: $30,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $29,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HONOR FLIGHT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFine Arts Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
  • Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds Break Bread ↗
  • Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HONOR FLIGHT ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fine Arts 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 Founda…The Janus Henderson F…Xcel Energy FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kullgren Fam Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kullgren Fam Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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