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O'Neal Family 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $25,000 |
| STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| THE DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| B&C NWC STEAMBOAT | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| LIFT UP OF ROUTT COUNTY | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME | $5,000 |
| CRAIG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DENVER ZOO CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +79%
- HCHolyoke Community Childcare2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue ×14 · 82% of their budget
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION7× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- NUNEBRASKA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CECALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…
To help people connect to nature and the land.
Together we create solutions for a better life.
To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…
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,…
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
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.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
To enhance youth programming, education and experiences at the colorado state fair.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Stars Foundation. 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 47 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.
31 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. 31 of the 54 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Holyoke Community Childcare ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Lift Up of Routt County ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME ↗
- Who funds YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds ROUTT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds WARHORSE RANCH ↗
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 · Steve and Kelly Bloom Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Morrison Family Foundation · Eliot Charitable Trust · The Duffey Foundation Inc · Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation · Kettering Family 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 O'Neal Family 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.
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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