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Monfort Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$8.9MPhilanthropy$4.2MYouth Development$163kHealth$136kHuman Services$80kHousing & Shelter$70kRecreation & Sports$53kInternational$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $328k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$228,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Northern CO Foundatio$700,000
United Way of Weld County$510,000
Colorado State University Foundatio$228,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT - ROCKY MOUNTAIN$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $5k → 9%Senior Resource Services: $5k → 9%60 RIDE: $5k → 9%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 12 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$13M
$396k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +68%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.4M · revenue +149%
  • TS
    The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $170k · revenue +716%

Funded once

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Greeley
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • BS
    Boy Scouts of America
    one grant, 2017 · $53k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
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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2
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
3
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
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
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
7
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
10
Urban Land Conservancy

Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.

Community Improvement
11
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boulder Ballet. 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

19 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. 19 of the 27 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,101,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,400,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDA…The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $170,000 · EducationUniversity of Northern CO Foundatio: $4,200,000 · OtherUniversity of Northern CO Foundatio+16 more: $369,500 · Other+16 moreUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $4,220,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $106,000 · HealthTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY: $30,000 · HealthSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $45,000 · InternationalA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $15,000 · Human Services
Education$4,671,000Other$4,569,500Philanthropy$4,220,000Health$136,000Recreation & Sports$50,000International$45,000Human Services$30,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $4,220,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,101,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,400,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $106,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY: $30,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 1 27: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGREELEY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOULDER BALLET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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…Weld Community Founda…The Weld TrustAnschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationTointon Family Founda…Wenaas Family Foundat…Weld Legacy FoundationOtter Cares Foundatio…The Denver FoundationSorelle Family Founda…Knoph Family Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO30.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · The Weld Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Tointon Family Foundation · Wenaas Family Foundation · Weld Legacy Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · The Denver Foundation · Sorelle Family Foundation · Knoph Family 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 Monfort Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monfort Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Monfort Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Monfort Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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