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McGrane Family Foundation at a glance

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McGrane 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$18kAnimals$17kRecreation & Sports$13kHealth$12kEnvironment$10kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$250
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$269k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION INC$3,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC$2,500
WINGS OF HOPE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH$2,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WYLDER NATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%JOHNSON OHANA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE SEA LION INC - PACIFIC MARINE: $500 → 10%OUTDOOR OUTREACH: $500 → 11%WINGS OF HOPE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 3%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $4k → 8%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $1k → 12%GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%WYLDER NATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%WINGS OF HOPE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 3%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $3k → 8%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $1k → 12%GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%WINGS OF HOPE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 3%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $3k → 8%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $1k → 12%FIRST TEE OF DENVER: $3k → 12%WINGS OF HOPE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 3%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $2k → 8%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $1k → 12%DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $250 → 12%WINGS OF HOPE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 3%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $2k → 8%ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $5k → 12%DOUGLAS COUNTY CANINE RESCUE: $3k → 3%THE COLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 8%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250 → 12%DOUGLAS COUNTY CANINE RESCUE: $500 → 3%ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $3k → 8%ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $3k → 8%ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $3k → 8%ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $3k → 8%ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50k · 6 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$50k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +100%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +55%
  • PO
    PROTECT OUR WINTERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISION OF ATHLETICS & REC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISION OF ATHLETICS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GH
    GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -46%
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.

1
Colorado Womens Golf Association

None

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2
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
3
Colorado Open Golf Foundation Inc

To generate awareness, sportsmanship, and recreation for youth oriented sports with the game of golf.

Philanthropy
4
Colorado Section of the Professional Golfers Association

To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the colorado section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…

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5
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
6
Denver Pet Partners

To deliver excellence in animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and enhance the health and wellness of people through AAI services, education & networking.

Health
7
Colorados Wildlife Deserves Better

To oppose a colorado state ballot initiative banning large cat game hunting

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8
Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.

Animals
9
Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado

The jgac serves as a vehicle for collaboration in the arena of junior golf in the state of colorado for parents, kids, coaches and pga professionals by streamlining the junior golf process, filling in the voids, further building the junior…

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10
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
11
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
12
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Denver Junior Golf. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $17,500 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN ED…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISION OF ATHLETICS & REC: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISI…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISION OF ATHLETICS: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISI…DOUGLAS COUNTY CANINE RESCUE: $3,000 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY CANINE RESCUEDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $3,000 · OtherDENVER JUNIOR GOLFCOLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · OtherCOLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION+3 more: $1,250 · Other+3 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $13,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF T…+1 more: $250 · AnimalsWings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research: $9,000 · HealthWings of Hope for…WYLDER NATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthWYLDER NATION FOU…GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNSON OHANA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $4,500 · Environment
Education$17,500Other$20,250Animals$13,250Health$12,000Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Environment$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research: $9,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJOHNSON OHANA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY CANINE RESCUE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYLDER NATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO GOLF ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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