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McDowell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MANNA RESOURCE CENTER | $6,000 |
| TALL TALES RANCH | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $4,000 |
| COURAGEOUS FACES FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $4,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST | $4,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO | $3,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRY TO CAMBODIA JEREMIAHS H | $2,500 |
| MUSANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION | $2,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $1,000 |
| FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
52 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH8× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +50%- HHHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +226%
- TTTALL TALES RANCH9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +451%
Funded once
- JHJEREMIAH'S HOPE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -75%
- CMCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINSTRY TO CAMBODIA JEREMIAHS HOone grant, 2017 · $2k
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEARTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +138%
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.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
Dental aid strives to improve the quality of life of children and adults struggling to afford health care by providing compassionate, high quality dental care and education, while advocating to ensure access to care.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
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…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Our mission is to provide high quality and equitable reproductive and sexual health services, abortion, and education to all people, regardless of any barriers to healthcare that they may face.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian Medical Minstry to Cambodia Jeremiahs Hope. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
62 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. 62 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 Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
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- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds Christian Medical Minstry to Cambodia Jeremiahs Hope ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MIDWIFE ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds MUSANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds MANNA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds Planned Pethood International ↗
- Who funds Knock Knock Angels Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds EMMANNE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Denver Broncos Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Phyllis M Coors Foundation · Berglund Family Foundation
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 McDowell 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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