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Louis P Singer Fund Inc

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.

$480k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$571kHuman Services$505kEducation$443kHealth$171kAnimals$138kHousing & Shelter$134kReligion$92kInternational$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University Of Colorado Foundation$134,500
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains$50,000
Boulder Housing Partners Foundation$35,000
Boulder County Latina League$35,000
The Cathedral School$30,000
Congregation Har Hashem$25,000
Colorado MahlerFest$25,000
Colorado Public Radio$10,000
Mary's Hands$10,000
Boulder Chorale$10,000
Longmont Symphony Orchestra$10,000
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$10,000
Boulder JCC$10,000
Seicento Baroque Ensemble$10,000
3rd Law DanceTheater$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $662k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $200 → 14%BRIDGE HOUSE: $800 → 9%Great Old Broads for Wilderness: $25k → 12%Bridge House: $200 → 9%Sister Carmen Community Center: $50k → 12%Sister Carmen Community Center: $15k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (JCC): $11k → 12%Boulder JCC: $10k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $450 → 14%American Red Cross: $400 → 14%Boulder JCC: $3k → 12%Bridge House: $800 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%Boulder County Latina League: $60k → 12%Intercambio Uniting Communities: $50k → 12%Boulder County Latina League: $35k → 12%Boulder County Latina League: $30k → 12%American Red Cross: $200 → 14%Intercambio Uniting Communities: $25k → 12%Boulder County Latina League: $25k → 12%Intercambio Uniting Communities: $10k → 12%Boulder County Latina League: $10k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $2k → 12%Via Mobility Services: $250 → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $250 → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $200 → 12%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $250 → 17%Innocence Project: $200 → 17%Innocence Project: $200 → 17%EFAA: $51k → 12%Boulder Housing Partners Foundation: $35k → 12%Boulder Housing Partners Foundation: $30k → 12%Boulder Housing Partners Foundation: $25k → 12%EFAA: $25k → 12%Boulder Housing Partners Foundation: $25k → 12%Boulder Housing Partners Foundation: $25k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $10k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $10k → 12%Boulder Housing Partners Foundation: $6k → 12%El Centro Amistad: $50k → 12%EFAA: $500 → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE: $500 → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $500 → 12%EFAA (EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION): $400 → 12%EFAA (EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION): $400 → 12%Attention Homes: $400 → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $300 → 12%Attention Homes: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
WY
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
AL
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 101 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

101 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 80 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
90

Total granted

$2.3M
$392k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+55%

Still filing today

74%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $379k · revenue +79%
  • BC
    BOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +33% · 42% of their budget
  • BH
    BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $146k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • RM
    Rocky Mountain PBS Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • BC
    BOULDER COUNTY NATURE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • EC
    El Centro AMISTADgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +41%
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
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
3
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
7
Aia Colorado

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…

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8
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
9
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
10
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kenny Gordon 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

130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 208 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/130
Grantees still filing
103/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOULDER AUDUBON SOCIETY Boulder County Audubon Society: $65,000 · OtherBOULDER AUDUBON SOCIETY Boulder C…ELPASO: $60,000 · OtherELPASOLongmont Symphony Orchestra: $55,000 · OtherLongmont Symphony OrchestraEL COMITE DE LONGMONT: $52,000 · OtherEL COMITE DE LONGMONTRocky Mountain PBS Foundation: $50,000 · OtherRocky Mountain PBS FoundationBOULDER COUNTY NATURE ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherBOULDER COUNTY NATURE ASSOCIATIONPRIMROSE HILL SCHOOL: $43,300 · OtherSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $40,800 · OtherCongregation Har Hashem: $34,000 · OtherThe Cathedral School: $30,000 · Other+123 more: $336,427 · Other+123 moreBOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGU…BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $146,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FO…EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $97,300 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE…INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $85,400 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADESSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CEN…El Centro AMISTAD: $50,000 · Human ServicesEl Centro AMISTADGREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23,500 · Human Services+12 more: $14,555 · Human ServicesCOLORADO MAHLERFEST: $131,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO MAHLERFESTPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $96,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF…BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $70,000 · Arts & CultureBOULDER PHILHARMONIC O…COMPASS RESONANCE: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPASS RESONANCETHIRD LAW DANCETHEATER: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHIRD LAW DANCETHEATERTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR T…LOCAL THEATER COMPANY: $26,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $48,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $378,663 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLO…FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationFRONT RANGE COMMUN…THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,000 · EducationI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $3,550 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $205,000 · HealthNAMI GREATER ORLANDO INC: $7,500 · Health+2 more: $2,950 · HealthTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $60,000 · Animals+7 more: $5,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $10,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $2,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $1,500 · Civil Rights+4 more: $1,570 · Civil Rights
Other$816,527Human Services$666,755Arts & Culture$546,500Education$447,213Health$215,450Animals$65,000Civil Rights$40,570

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $378,663 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $205,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE INC: $160,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetBOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $146,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetCOLORADO MAHLERFEST: $131,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $97,300 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $96,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $85,400 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $70,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOULDER AUDUBON SOCIETY Boulder County Audubon Society: $65,000 over 3y, 90% of budgetCOMPASS RESONANCE: $60,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEL COMITE DE LONGMONT: $52,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEl Centro AMISTAD: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPRIMROSE HILL SCHOOL: $43,300 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $40,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD LAW DANCETHEATER: $35,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLOCAL THEATER COMPANY: $26,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEICENTO BAROQUE ENSEMBLE: $11,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBirds of Prey Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER CHORALE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNAMI GREATER ORLANDO INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JAM SESSION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES CROQUET ASSOC INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBridge House: $3,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationEmsa Fund IncRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Longmont Communit…AEC TrustMile High United Way …ImpactassetsincThe Winky Foundation …Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO52.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Emsa Fund Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · AEC Trust · Mile High United Way Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation

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 Louis P Singer Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis P Singer Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bridge House Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Nami Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Louis P Singer Fund 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 208 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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