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· Private foundation

Madigan Edward Fdn Tuw

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.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$123kHuman Services$117kYouth Development$110kEducation$108kCommunity Improvement$29kInternational$20kHousing & Shelter$15kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINDS MATTER COLORADO$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUEBLO COUNTY$10,000
THE EXODUS ROAD$10,000
LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING$10,000
GROWE FOUNDATION$10,000
SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC$10,000
MOTHER HOUSE INC$10,000
CROSSPURPOSE$7,500
HEART & HAND CENTER$7,500
ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$7,500
COLORADO ASSN BLACK PROF ENG SCIENTISTS$7,500
AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,000
CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER$5,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$5,000
CHILDRENS SPEECH AND READING CENTER$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $8k → 5%CHILDRENS SPEECH AND READING CENTER: $5k → 11%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $3k → 5%DIAKONIA: $10k → 9%DIAKONIA: $5k → 9%TRI LAKES CARES: $5k → 9%ATTENTION HOMES: $5k → 12%WEECYCLE: $5k → 8%TRI-LAKES CARES: $5k → 9%Attention Inc: $4k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $10k → 12%WEECYCLE: $5k → 8%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $10k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $5k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $10k → 12%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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$428k · 26 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
20

Total granted

$428k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +60%
  • LT
    LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
    4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +45%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County
    3× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • RC
    RESOURCE CONNECT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TI
    THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COALITION FOR FAMILIES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

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
The Rise School of Denver

The purpose of the Rise School of Denver is to provide the highest quality inclusive early childhood education and therapy for children with and without developmental disabilities. We do this by providing exemplary school- and clinic-based…

Education
2
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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3
Denver Kids Inc

Provides professional, educational counseling and volunteer mentors for denver public school students, grades third through twelve, with the goal of keeping them in the school system until they graduate from high school.

Education
4
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp

A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…

Health
5
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
6
Invest in Kids

Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.

Youth Development
7
Denver Area Youth Services

To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.

Human Services
8
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
9
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
10
Denver Police Activities League Inc

The denver police activities league's (pal) mission is to create strong communities by providing under-resourced children with opportunities, exposure, and experiences with the intent of changing young people's lives in a positive way.

Youth Development
11
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children

Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…

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12
Parent Possible

We envision a colorado where every family is a thriving ecosystem of learning, laughing, and well-being. our mission is to equip parents with the tools and information to be their child's most valuable teacher, trainer, and mentor in life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Security & Food SystemsColorado Grantmaking Founda…K-12 Schools and Parent Adv…Policy Research and AdvocacyIndustry Trade AssociationsAffordable Housing Developm…Behavioral Health & Addicti…Child & Disability Support …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
13%
2,693/20,172

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

46 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. 46 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County — $25,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo CountyARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLYou Be You Early Learning — $15,000 · OtherYou Be You Early LearningGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $15,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE — $15,000 · OtherMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGEREAD TO ME — $12,000 · OtherRESOURCE CONNECT — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR FAMILIES — $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO ASSN BLACK PROF ENG SCIENTISTS — $7,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $10,000 · OtherTHE EXODUS ROAD INC — $10,000 · OtherMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC — $11,000 · OtherCROSSPURPOSE — $7,500 · OtherCASA of the Pikes Peak Region — $8,000 · Other+10 more — $49,000 · Other+10 moreLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $30,000 · Human ServicesLABORATORY TO COMBAT HU…CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENV…Diakonia — $15,000 · Human ServicesDiakoniaA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INCWEECYCLE — $10,000 · Human ServicesWEECYCLETRI-LAKES CARES — $10,000 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CARESSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER…ATTENTION INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION INCREZILIENTKIDZ — $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesCraig Hospital Foundation — $30,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Fou…COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $16,000 · HealthCOLORADO CENTER FO…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $15,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HE…THE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthTHE MORGAN ADAMS F…American Diabetes Association — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes …DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME — $10,000 · HealthDENVER CHILDREN'S …ANCHOR INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · HealthALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $23,400 · EducationALLIANCE FO…TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER — $11,000 · EducationTINY TIM CE…SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER — $5,000 · EducationSEXUAL ASSA…PEDALING MINDS INC — $5,000 · EducationPEDALING MI…Montessori del Mundo Charter School — $5,000 · EducationMontessori …READING PARTNERS — $5,000 · EducationREADING PAR…HIGHLINE ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationHIGHLINE AC…HEART AND HAND CENTER — $42,500 · Crime & LegalMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGROWE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOCKWOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$225,000Human Services$124,500Health$101,000Education$59,400Crime & Legal$42,500Youth Development$37,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEART AND HAND CENTER — $42,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $30,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $23,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDiakonia — $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYou Be You Early Learning — $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEECYCLE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROWE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXODUS ROAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATTENTION INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of the Pikes Peak Region — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREVEL — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREZILIENTKIDZ — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANCHOR INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPEDALING MINDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLOCKWOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMontessori del Mundo Charter School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF THE NINTH — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLINE ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…El Pomar FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Mile High United Way …McInnes S and J Char …Rose Community Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Denver Children's…The Anschutz Foundati…Hill Foundation Wells…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO63× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · McInnes S and J Char Tr · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na

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 Madigan Edward Fdn Tuw 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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.

    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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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