· Private foundation
Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k26 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $33,400 |
| AMG Charitable Gift Foundation | $11,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $4,000 |
| Friends of Lied | $4,000 |
| Kimball Public Schools Foundation Inc | $3,000 |
| Grace Village co Zion Lutheran Church | $2,500 |
| Fullerton's Future Inc | $2,500 |
| University Schools Foundation | $2,500 |
| Stepping Stones of Windsor | $2,500 |
| No Co BBB Foundation | $2,500 |
| Bankers Foundation of Colorado | $2,000 |
| The Community Foundation of Northern CO | $2,000 |
| The Success Foundation | $1,250 |
| Cheyenne County Community Center Foundation Inc | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 NEBRASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +12%
- UNUCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +1%
- FOFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA6× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- JSJULESBURG SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $16k
- HHHAXTUN HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SCSEDGWICK COUNTY ORGANIZED RECREATION INCone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -87%
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.
The Colorado Energy Foundation was incorporated in 2019 as a 501(c)(3) supporting organization of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and seeks to amplify existing philanthropic efforts of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and develop…
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
The Grand Foundation is a philanthropic organization serving all of Grand County, Colorado. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in Grand County by proactively addressing current and future needs in the areas of Health &…
To support and advance the general welfare and prosperity of the greater glenwood springs, co area so that its citizens and all areas of the community may prosper and lessen the burden of local and state governments. the organization also…
First Southwest Community Fund supports the dedicated entrepreneurial spirit of rural Colorado, by investing in the people, culture and ideas that fuel innovation and financial knowledge in our community, with an emphasis on areas of…
Our organization provides scholarships to students residing in the Estes Valley, supporting their pursuit of higher education. By offering financial assistance, we help alleviate the burden of tuition costs and promote educational…
The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.
To enhance youth programming, education and experiences at the colorado state fair.
Our mission is to enhance quality of life increase community generosity in the community served by Melissa Memorial Hospital. We also assist in bringing doctors to rural Colorado.
The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Plains West Casa. 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 98 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 NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ORGANIZED RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Estes Park Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HIPPODROME ARTS CENTRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE COUNTY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Douglas ↗
- Who funds Fullertons Future Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORIC STANLEY HOME FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northern Colorado Down Syndrome Association ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Weld Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · United Way of Larimer County · The Independent Charitable Gift 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 Olson Tom & Cynthia 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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