· Private foundation
Larsen Family Foundation Martha J Larsen Pres
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| STEP DENVER | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LARIMER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| NFCBA BOOTS AND COATS | $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 (FY18–23, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SDStep Denver9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +171%
- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer County9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +45%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- PHPOUDRE HIGH SCHOOL - FFAone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of new mexico state university foundation is to foster long-term relationships with our alumni, supporters, and community in order to secure, manage, steward, and protect a sustainable source of private resources that will…
The denver rescue mission is changing lives in the name of christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.
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…
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The mission of the southern plains land trust is to create and protect a network of shortgrass prairie preserves which ensure a future for all native animals and plants.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Team Vortex Swim Club. 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 32 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 Step Denver ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds POUDRE RIVER LIBRARY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEALS FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM VORTEX SWIM CLUB ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds High Plains Honor Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds LARIMER COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS GATEWAY 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 · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Larsen Family Foundation Martha J Larsen Pres 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.