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Norgren Family Fund
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,500 |
| WELD FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ST NICOLAS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WRAY AREA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES | $2,500 |
| BEEF STICKS FOR BACKPACKS | $2,500 |
| PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCKIES | $2,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| COLORADO FFA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HEARTS AND HORSES | $1,500 |
| NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW | $1,400 |
| UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY | $1,000 |
| TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| RESPITE CARE INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $61k · revenue +28%
- TWTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +50%
- WFWELD FOOD BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- DZDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER CTRone grant, 2021 · $2k
- WLWELD LEGACY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +175%
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.
CALF is dedicated to connecting all people to agriculture through authentic education programs, community projects and leadership opportunities.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.
The weld community foundation promotes philanthropy to build resources, develops partnerships, and provides leadership that will be of lasting benefit to our communities.
To advance the interest of the colorado farm and ranch community. activities include research and inquiry into the fields of agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, economic and political relations.
To enhance youth programming, education and experiences at the colorado state fair.
Conserving colorado's western heritage and working landscapes for the benefit of future generations.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.
The mission of feeding colorado, which represents the five feeding america food banks in the state, is to improve food security in colorado through policy, advocacy, partnership, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Weld Legacy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cattle for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 41 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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS & HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASTHMA AND ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds WRAY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELD COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SERVE 6 8 ↗
- Who funds WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATTLE FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
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 · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Norgren Family Fund 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.
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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