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Louden Family Foundation
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 $10k42 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SNOW LEOPARD TRUST | $15,500 |
| CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER | $10,500 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $7,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES | $6,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE FOREST CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| KID PAN ALLEY | $3,600 |
| FAMILY LAW CASA | $3,500 |
| THE OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEER | $2,000 |
| EARLHAM COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SYCAMORE LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +41%- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +57%
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- BLBIG LIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
- RARAINFOREST ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +19%
- CSCLIMATE SOLUTIONSone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Rhc Foundation. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 97 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FRIENDS CAMP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Kid Pan Alley ↗
- Who funds SHILOH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Colorado Choir & Chorus Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KAWANGWARE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE BENCH ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE DENVER ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Speleological Society ↗
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 · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Louden Family 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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