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Mary John Goree Las Animas County Scholarship 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.

$882k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$4.6MRecreation & Sports$214k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $811k
$71,546
Median grant
10
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$118,607
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSIT$117,270
DUKE UNIVERSITY$94,477
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$86,207
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$85,934
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$71,546
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$64,750
CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVER$61,503
WEST TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY$56,964
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$53,520
ST GREGORY THE GREAT SEMINARY$36,740
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$34,652
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EMERSON COLLEGE: $72k → 16%ST GREGORY THE GREAT SEMINARY: $37k → 8%CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVER: $62k → 12%WEST TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY: $57k → 9%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $86k → 16%NEW MEXICO INST OF MINES TECHNOLOGY: $43k → 25%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $47k → 13%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 19%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $72k → 14%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSIT: $117k → 12%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 20%MISSOURI UNIV OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY: $48k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $94k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $50k → 8%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $43k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CO COLORADO SPRINGS: $37k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $86k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES TECH: $68k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $65k → 9%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $54k → 19%EMERSON COLLEGE: $70k → 16%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $80k → 16%NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES TECHNOLO: $41k → 25%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $65k → 19%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $65k → 14%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSIT: $73k → 12%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $43k → 20%MISSOURI UNIV OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY: $45k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $90k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $44k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $65k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES TECH: $65k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $62k → 9%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $52k → 19%EMERSON COLLEGE: $69k → 16%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $75k → 16%NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING TECH: $37k → 25%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSIT: $56k → 12%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $43k → 20%MISSOURI UNIV OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY: $43k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $63k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES TECH: $61k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $60k → 9%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $52k → 19%EMERSON COLLEGE: $66k → 16%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $67k → 16%NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING TECH: $37k → 25%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $42k → 20%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

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 24 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
3

Total granted

$4.4M
$127k

Still filing today

29%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

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

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $636k · revenue +12%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $308k · revenue +11%
  • EMERSON COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $277k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
    one grant, 2024 · $43k
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO INST OF MINES TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2023 · $43k
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES TECHNOLO
    one grant, 2022 · $41k

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.

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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
11
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Denver and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 30 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY — $346,918 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CO BOULDER — $273,889 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CO BOULDERSOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES TECH — $192,580 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES TECHOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY — $183,455 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $173,619 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYMISSOURI UNIV OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY — $160,561 · OtherMISSOURI UNIV OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGYLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY — $157,652 · OtherLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CO COLORADO SPRINGS — $139,953 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CO COLORADO SPRINGSUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER — $126,664 · OtherWEST TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY — $108,492 · OtherCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY — $98,057 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $93,687 · Other+10 more — $511,517 · Other+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $635,959 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $307,568 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYEMERSON COLLEGE — $276,852 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGEEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $246,446 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INCPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $245,011 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $213,925 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacDUKE UNIVERSITY — $184,489 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $137,045 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Other$2,567,044Education$2,247,295

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $635,959 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $307,568 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $276,852 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $246,446 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $245,011 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $213,925 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $184,489 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $137,045 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mary John Goree Las Animas County Scholarship 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College0% of income from government
  • Emerson College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Mary John Goree Las Animas County Scholarship Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mary John Goree Las Animas County Scholarship 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 30 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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