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Natural Pathways Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE | $5,075 |
| DURANGO DHARMA CENTER | $1,210 |
| DEER HILL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE | $520 |
| FOUR RIVERS INST SW COMMUNITY FOUND | $520 |
| MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS | $500 |
| RADICAL JOY FOR HARD TIMES | $500 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EVERGREEN | $432 |
| GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION USA | $266 |
| PLEDGELING FOUNDATION | $260 |
| SHANTA FOUNDATION | $200 |
| CONGREGATION HAR SHALOM | $200 |
| EARTH LAW CENTER | $200 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY | $200 |
| SAN JUAN CITIZENS ALLIANCE | $154 |
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 (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- DHDeer Hill Foundation5× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +35%
- SFShanta Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +154%
- SJSan Juan Citizens Alliance6× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- MVMOVEMENT VOTER FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue ×66
- LSLOVE SERVE REMEMBER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +31%
- HHHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +28%
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Dzi partners with local communities in nepal to achieve shared prosperity by ensuring access to basic needs, catalyzing inclusive economic growth, and creating an environment for lasting change.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Dolores River Boating Advocates protects and enriches the recreational and ecological values of the Dolores River through advocacy, stewardship and education.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
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.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sufi Ruhaniat International. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 70 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 Deer Hill Foundation ↗
- Who funds Shanta Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds San Juan Citizens Alliance ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT VOTER FUND ↗
- Who funds WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Mancos Valley Dragonfly School ↗
- Who funds LOVE SERVE REMEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds DURANGO SANGHA ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION HAR SHALOM ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEJAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Lama Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds Music in the Mountains Inc ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Sufi Ruhaniat International ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds DURANGO ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
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 Erteszek Foundation · Ballantine Family Fund · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Team Up · The Moniker Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Tides 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 Natural Pathways 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.
- Bennington College Corporation — 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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