· Private foundation
McDaniel Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,077 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROOTS MUSIC PROJECT | $20,000 |
| DAIRY CENTER | $15,000 |
| REAL LIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $5,000 |
| SPRING HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MASON COMMUNITY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| MISSION ARLINGTONMISSION METROPLEX | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DEFY VENTURES | $1,545 |
| BAMBOO RANCH | $540 |
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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +72% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- THTEROLYN HORSE RESCUE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $524k · revenue +158% · 46% of their budget
- RRREEL RECOVERY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +41%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGone grant, 2017 · $7k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
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…
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
Together we create solutions for a better life.
Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
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…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Film Society Fye 531. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 73 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 TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds REEL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds E TOWN ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds Moosilauke Visions Inc ↗
- Who funds RV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASON COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 McDaniel 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.