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Left Hand Brewing Foundation Inc

The left hand brewing foundation is committed to brewing a stronger community where we work, live and play.

$44k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$37kHealth$19kCommunity Improvement$15kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$6kYouth Development$5kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $40,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $43,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURN IT UP MEDIA$25,000
COLORADO BREWERS GUILD$15,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $6k → 16%LOVE HOPE STRENGTH: $3k → 7%SOS OUTREACH: $3k → 7%THE OUR CENTER: $10k → 12%LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $5k → 12%SOS OUTREACH: $2k → 7%ST VRAIN FOOTBALL CLUB: $5k → 12%LEUEKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $5k → 12%LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 12%CHILL FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%FUTURE ARTS FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%CHILL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%TURN IT UP MEDIA: $25k → 12%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $4k → 12%I HAVE A DREAM: $5k → 12%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $2k → 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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 4 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$25k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    THE CHILL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +496%
  • SO
    SOS OUTREACH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • OU
    OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +107%
  • SV
    ST VRAIN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -5%
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
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
The Aspen Strong Foundation
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3
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
4
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
5
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
6
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
7
Peak Hope Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Elway Foundation
—
9
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
10
Colorado Health Institute
Health
11
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
12
Shivers Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sos Outreach; the most unlike its peers is The Chill Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURN IT UP MEDIA: $25,000 · OtherTURN IT UP MEDIACraft Beer Colorado Inc: $15,000 · OtherCraft Beer Colorado IncOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INCThe Houston Food Bank: $6,036 · OtherThe Houston Food BankST VRAIN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · OtherST VRAIN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC+1 more: $2,000 · OtherBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED …NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $6,215 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SC…LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthLOVE HOPE STRENGTH F…I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHILL FOUNDATION: $4,500 · PhilanthropySOS OUTREACH: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsFUTURE ARTS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Animals
Other$63,036Health$19,215Education$5,000Philanthropy$4,500Recreation & Sports$4,500Youth Development$4,000Animals$4,000

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 budgetCraft Beer Colorado Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $6,215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $6,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VRAIN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILL FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Longmont Communit…Colorado Gives Founda…Lynn & Helen N Clark …Community Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Otter Cares Foundatio…The Colorado Health F…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Longmont Community FoundationCO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Longmont Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Left Hand Brewing Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Left Hand Brewing Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    How do I get to Left Hand Brewing Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Left Hand Brewing 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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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