· Private foundation
Leigh and Loretta Norgren 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG FREE CLINIC FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC | $3,000 |
| DENVER SANTA CLAUS SHOP | $3,000 |
| GATEWAY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES | $3,000 |
| CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HAZELBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| DENVER RESUCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| USF FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +23%
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSION5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +26%
St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- WCWELD COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- A2AMERICAS 2ND HARVEST OF BIG BENDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- DKDoreen Katz Memorial Cancer Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +30%
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 49 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 54 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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Doreen Katz Memorial Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Columbine Community Foundation ↗
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 · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Leigh and Loretta Norgren 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.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
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.