· Private foundation
McNaught G Char
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF COLORADO | $5,000 |
| LAZARUS GATE | $4,000 |
| HIRE HEROES USA | $3,000 |
| HOMEAHEAD | $3,000 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER | $2,500 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO | $2,500 |
| GIGIS PLAYHOUSE DENVER LLC | $2,500 |
| HEART OF BOARDWALK INC | $2,500 |
| HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO I | $2,500 |
| KARIS COMMUNITY | $2,500 |
| CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC | $2,500 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| GOLDEN BACKPACK PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| A WOMANS PLACE INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +9%
Learning Ally Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $28k · revenue +59%- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEART6× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CACONTINUING AND EXPANDING LEARNING ALLYone grant, 2018 · $8k
- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +7%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF MILE HIGH AREAone grant, 2024 · $7k
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.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
Rooted in the values of kindness, dignity and social justice, lfsrm strenghtens communities by providing support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families throughout the rocky mountain region.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
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…
To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 58 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds HEART OF BOARDWALK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Lazarus Gate ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds WEECYCLE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHAUS ADULT DAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC ↗
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 · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · McInnes S and J Char Tr · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Madigan Edward Fdn Tuw · The Denver Children's Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 McNaught G Char 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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.