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Nagel Foundation at a glance

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Nagel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$762k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$6.4MEducation$2.0MPublic Benefit$628kHousing & Shelter$135kEnvironment$109kPhilanthropy$60kYouth Development$60kArts & Culture$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$70,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO$761,500
ADVANCE COLORADO$250,000
INNER-CITY SCHOOL$120,000
ST JOSEPHS CHURCH PHUKET$100,000
DREAM INSPIRATION KENYA$70,000
GIRLS WITH BOOKS$70,000
MOTHERING ACROSS CONTINENTS$70,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$35,000
FOCUS (FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS)$25,000
STEP DENVER$25,000
MAYO CLINIC$10,000
OPERA COLORADO$10,000
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO$3,500
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 (FY19–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%COMMUNIO: $75k → 6%GREATER PARK HILL COMMUNITY: $5k → 12%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 20 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
17

Total granted

$3.6M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+129%
+2%

Still filing today

80%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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
    4× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +144%
  • AC
    ADVANCE COLORADO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $825k · revenue +85%
  • IS
    INNER-CITY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $540k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +331%
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • KC
    KIWANIS CLUB OF LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
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 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
3
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
7
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Colorado Judicial Institute

To promote excellence, equity, impartiality, and public trust in Colorado's courts through outreach, education, and engagement.

Crime & Legal
10
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
12
The Colorado College

At colorado college our goal is to provide the finest liberal arts education in the country. drawing upon the adventurous spirit of the rocky mountain west, we challenge students, one course at a time, to develop those habits of intellect…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc; the most unlike its peers is Caruso Family Charities. 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

34 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. 34 of the 43 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO: $7,021,500 · ReligionTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO+1 more: $70,000 · ReligionALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $1,385,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN…INNER-CITY SCHOOL INC: $540,000 · EducationINNER-CITY SCHOOL INCGirls With Books: $130,000 · EducationGirls With BooksMOTHERING ACROSS CONTINENTS INC: $105,000 · Education+3 more: $30,000 · EducationADVANCE COLORADO: $825,000 · Public Benefit+3 more: $32,500 · Public BenefitStep Denver: $160,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN PREP: $115,000 · OtherENERGY MADE VISIBLE: $108,900 · OtherST JOSEPHS CHURCH PHUKET: $100,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $50,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $40,000 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $27,500 · Other+14 more: $147,500 · OtherCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesGreater Park Hill Community Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCARUSO FAMILY CHARITIES: $60,000 · PhilanthropyOPERA COLORADO: $19,000 · Arts & CultureLEON CO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Religion$7,091,500Education$2,190,000Public Benefit$857,500Other$783,900Human Services$96,000Philanthropy$60,000Arts & Culture$36,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO: $7,021,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $1,385,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetADVANCE COLORADO: $825,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetINNER-CITY SCHOOL INC: $540,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetStep Denver: $160,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGirls With Books: $130,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMOTHERING ACROSS CONTINENTS INC: $105,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDREAM INSPIRATION KENYA: $70,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCARUSO FAMILY CHARITIES: $60,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA COLORADO: $19,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT EDUCATION SUDAN: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Park Hill Community Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 5.3% 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…The Denver FoundationDaniels FundAmg Charitable Gift F…Pema Foundation IncThe Anschutz Foundati…Rose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe Galena FoundationAdolph Coors Foundati…The Janus Henderson F…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO24.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Pema Foundation Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Galena Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Janus Henderson 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 Nagel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nagel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 43 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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