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LARRK 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 $10k13 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $630k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kent Denver School | $150,000 |
| Western Stock Show Association | $130,000 |
| Montview Church | $100,000 |
| University of Denver Graduate Schoo | $100,000 |
| Work to Ride | $50,000 |
| Highline Canal Conservancy | $50,000 |
| Lifespan Local | $50,000 |
| Bluff Lake Nature Center | $25,000 |
| Warren Village | $25,000 |
| Daraja Education Fund | $25,000 |
| St Vrain Valley Schools Innovation | $25,000 |
| Denver Museum of Nature Science | $25,000 |
| Denver Health Foundation | $20,000 |
| Thriving Families | $20,000 |
| Colorado Youth for Change | $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 (FY18–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
- KDKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +76%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM4× · 2017–2021 · $800k · revenue +7%
- GCGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL3× · 2020–2022 · $225k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CRCherokee Ranch & Castlegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +116%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SENTEBALE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +527%
- SPStrive Prep Charter Schoolone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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…
Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Education of students with learning differences
Every child deserves a great educator. pebc works across the nation to prepare outstanding new teachers, help practicing teachers and leaders become exceptional, and shape systems and policies in order to foster vibrant growth and lasting…
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.
Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education
The lln brings together a group of diverse-by-design schools that are committed to providing unique and dynamic learning experiences for all students, including those historically underserved, while empowering teachers, leaders and…
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Montessori school of denver (msd) is a dynamic educational environment empowering students to use diverse knowledge and experiences to reach their full potential and do good in the world. msd is accredited by acis and the american…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Equine Partnership Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 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. 73 of the 120 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 KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORK TO RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN LOCAL INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING CENT ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Daraja Education Fund ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Cherokee Ranch & Castle ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SENTEBALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON RECORD ↗
- Who funds BLUFF LAKE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Boettcher Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 LARRK 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.
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