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Mabel Horrigan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$261kEducation$131kHealth$107kFood & Nutrition$71kReligion$64kAnimals$55kHousing & Shelter$55kCommunity Improvement$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vail Valley Foundation$7,180
Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation$7,000
University of Notre Dame Du Lac$6,500
O'Dea High School$6,500
Catholic Charities of Central Colorado$4,680
Springs Rescue Mission$4,000
Lindsay Wildlife Museum$3,416
Catholic Charities of East Bay$2,500
St Mary Church of Immaculate Conception$2,500
Monument Crisis Center$2,500
Pug Rescue of Northern CA$2,500
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Catholic Diocese of Oakland$2,500
Loaves and Fishes Contra Costa$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Meals on Wheels - Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Meals on Wheels - Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa: $2k → 9%Hope and Home: $4k → 9%Meals on Wheels - Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Meals on Wheels - Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Hope and Home: $3k → 9%Meals on Wheels - Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Hope and Home: $2k → 9%Individuals Now Inc: $2k → 9%Hope and Home: $2k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $3k → 9%Hope and Home: $2k → 9%Hope and Home: $2k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $3k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $3k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $3k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $3k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $7k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $2k → 9%TESSA: $3k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $2k → 9%TESSA: $3k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $2k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $2k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $2k → 9%TESSA: $2k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $2k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $2k → 9%TESSA: $2k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $2k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $2k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $2k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $2k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $2k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $4k → 9%Urban Peak of Colorado Springs: $4k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $4k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $3k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $3k → 9%Urban Peak of Colorado Springs: $3k → 9%Urban Peak of Colorado Springs: $3k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $3k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $3k → 9%Urban Peak of Colorado Springs: $3k → 9%Urban Peak of Colorado Springs: $3k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $3k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
IN
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$760k · 70 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
23

Total granted

$760k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+10%

Still filing today

54%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • LW
    LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +59%
  • BA
    BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +47%
  • JM
    JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • IH
    Interfait Hospital Network CS
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • CH
    Catholic Heath Initiative of CO
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • WR
    Womens Resource Agency Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
2
Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region

To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)

Animals
3
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
5
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
6
Pikes Peak Community Foundation

To inspire a passionate community to forge an enduring legacy now and for future generations. this mission is attained by building a community endowment, helping donors address community needs and providing philanthropic leadership.

Philanthropy
7
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
9
Set of Colorado Springs

S.e.t. of colorado springs is made up of a small multi-skilled staff and a large corps of volunteers, including many in the medical professions. s.e.t. of colorado springs collaborates with other care-givers in the pikes peak area to teach…

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10
Comfort Bridge

Comfort bridge d/b/a care synergy is a nonprofit organization formed in 2014 and is the region's largest end-of-life care network. care synergy provides mission support services for nonprofit home health care and community-based hospice…

Health
11
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver

As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…

Human Services
12
Pathways Hospice

Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Springs Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Police Foundation of Colorado Springs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr14%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr14%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
12%
2,474/20,186

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 103 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC — $39,680 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INCODEA HIGH SCHOOL — $39,000 · OtherODEA HIGH SCHOOLBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY — $28,437 · OtherCatholic Charities of East Bay — $26,725 · OtherChildren's Hospital of CO Foundation — $26,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $19,000 · OtherJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $19,000 · Other+73 more — $367,915 · Other+73 moreTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $24,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESCU…MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $18,500 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CRISIS C…PIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $17,000 · Human ServicesPIKES PEAK HOSPIC…The Place — $15,500 · Human ServicesThe PlaceHOPE AND HOME — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HOMESILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesSILVER KEY SENIOR…TESSA — $10,500 · Human ServicesTESSAMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION — $8,225 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS D…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $5,000 · Human Services+2 more — $5,250 · Human ServicesUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $39,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $11,000 · Education+1 more — $1,500 · EducationCare and Share Inc — $18,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $16,500 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $2,500 · Food & NutritionLINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $28,579 · Arts & CultureUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum — $5,000 · Arts & CultureVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $23,430 · Community ImprovementExponential Impact — $4,800 · Community ImprovementPartners in Housing Inc — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC — $11,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$566,257Human Services$131,475Education$51,500Food & Nutrition$37,000Arts & Culture$33,579Community Improvement$28,230Housing & Shelter$26,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $28,579 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY — $28,437 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $23,430 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $18,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCare and Share Inc — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION — $16,836 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa — $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Place — $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc — $15,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE AND HOME — $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA — $13,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE CARES INC — $12,681 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTESSA — $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION — $8,225 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado — $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetExponential Impact — $4,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOGWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Springs Fine Arts Center — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUG RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Responders Resiliency — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREACH PIKES PEAK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the North Bay Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of the Pikes Peak Region — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broadmoor Garden Club — $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
  • Who funds PIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
  • Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa ↗
  • Who funds The Place ↗
  • Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AND HOME ↗
  • Who funds The Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TESSA ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Careers in Construction Colorado ↗

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.

The Joseph Henry Edmo…Pikes Peak Community …El Pomar FoundationThe Myron Stratton Ho…Pikes Peak United WayColorado Springs Heal…The Marson FoundationT Rowe Price Foundati…Ent Credit UnionColorado Gives Founda…Jerome V Bruni Founda…INDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…
The Joseph Henry Edmondson FoundationCO38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Marson Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jerome V Bruni Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak

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 Mabel Horrigan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mabel Horrigan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mabel Horrigan Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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