How much does McDaniel Family Foundation give?

McDaniel Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $255,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does McDaniel Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (46%), Education (12%), Health (11%).

Who are McDaniel Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Terolyn Horse Rescue Inc ($674k), Reel Recovery Inc ($90k), University of Wyoming Foundation ($70k).

Does McDaniel Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does McDaniel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as McDaniel Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation.

Where is McDaniel Family Foundation based?

McDaniel Family Foundation is based in CO.

McDaniel Family Foundation

McDaniel Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

McDaniel Family 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.

$256k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$565kEducation$142kHealth$136kHuman Services$75kArts & Culture$70kFood & Nutrition$41kReligion$26kYouth Development$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $38k
$10k–50k3 grants · $68k
$50k–250k1 grant · $150k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE	$150,000
FRIENDS SCHOOL	$30,000
ROOTS MUSIC PROJECT	$22,000
DAIRY CENTER	$16,000
YELLOWSTONE FOUNDATION	$5,000
TOMORROW'S HOME FOUNATION	$5,000
EFAA	$5,000
MISSION ARLINGTONMISSION METROPLEX	$5,000
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY CENTER	$5,000
MARION CARES	$5,000
KIDS FOOD BASKET	$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH	$1,000
FISHING THE GOOD FIGHT	$1,000
THE NEW LOCAL	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 33 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+27%

Still filing today

58%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

TH
TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $674k · revenue +158% · 46% of their budget
RR
REEL RECOVERY INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +24%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
3× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +130%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $25k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
one grant, 2017 · $7k
RM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +48%

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.

Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture

Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

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Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health

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

Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of the Rockies

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

Food & Nutrition

The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy

Boulder Chamber of Commerce

The nonprofit boulder chamber is the region's flagship business advocacy and support organization. with almost 120 years of dedicated service to our members and the boulder community, the boulder chamber's innovative programs help local…

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Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

39/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$680,479Other$452,245Education$139,668Health$117,086Human Services$54,273Arts & Culture$23,112Food & Nutrition$11,000

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

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 FoundationCO31.7× affinity15 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 · 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

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 McDaniel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDaniel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

13report 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

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home