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Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$106kHealth$77kPhilanthropy$47kArts & Culture$41kReligion$20kYouth Development$18kCommunity Improvement$17kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Nebraska Foundation$33,400
AMG Charitable Gift Foundation$11,000
Friends of Lied$4,000
American Cancer Society$4,000
Kimball Public Schools Foundation Inc$3,000
University Schools Foundation$2,500
No Co BBB Foundation$2,500
Stepping Stones of Windsor$2,500
Grace Village co Zion Lutheran Church$2,500
Fullerton's Future Inc$2,500
The Community Foundation of Northern CO$2,000
Bankers Foundation of Colorado$2,000
The Success Foundation$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Cheyenne County Hopsital & Health Center Foundation$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Fullerton's Future Inc: $3k → 11%Fullertons Future Inc: $3k → 11%HEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $650 → 11%HEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $550 → 11%Plains West CASA: $1k → 12%CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $2k → 11%CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $2k → 11%SERVE 68: $2k → 11%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.
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 36 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
49

Total granted

$252k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+4%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +12%
  • UN
    UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • JS
    JULESBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • HH
    HAXTUN HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • SC
    SEDGWICK COUNTY ORGANIZED RECREATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -87%
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
Colorado Energy Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado

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.

Philanthropy
4
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
5
Columbine Community Foundation

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 &…

Philanthropy
6
Glenwood Springs Chamber Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
7
First Southwest Community Fund

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…

Human Services
8
Estes Park Western Heritage Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Morgan Community College Foundation

The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.

Education
10
The Colorado State Fair Foundation

To enhance youth programming, education and experiences at the colorado state fair.

Arts & Culture
11
Phillips County Healthcare Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Northern Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JULESBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT: $16,400 · OtherJULESBURG SCHOOL DISTRICTHAXTUN HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherHAXTUN HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONUCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherUCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATIONWINDSOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,500 · OtherThe Community Foundation of Northern CO: $10,500 · OtherLISCO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · Other+60 more: $152,114 · Other+60 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $37,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBR…EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationEASTERN WYOMING CO…The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $6,000 · EducationThe Success Founda…UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORT…KIMBALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Education+5 more: $6,400 · Education+5 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $24,000 · HealthAMERICAN C…Estes Park Medical Center Foundation: $8,000 · HealthEstes Park…CHEYENNE COUNTY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthCHEYENNE C…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHIPPODROME ARTS CENTRE: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORIC STANLEY HOME FOUNDATIO: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ESTES PARK POST 119 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $7,500 · PhilanthropyWindsor Severance Food Pantry: $2,500 · PhilanthropyBANKER'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $2,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,300 · PhilanthropyFullertons Future Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $4,000 · Human ServicesSERVE 6 8: $2,000 · Human ServicesHEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $1,200 · Human ServicesPLAINS WEST CASA: $1,000 · Human ServicesSEDGWICK COUNTY ORGANIZED RECREATION INC: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$236,514Education$69,800Health$39,000Arts & Culture$26,000Philanthropy$24,300Human Services$13,200Recreation & Sports$12,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $37,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEDGWICK COUNTY ORGANIZED RECREATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA: $10,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEstes Park Medical Center Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $7,503 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIPPODROME ARTS CENTRE: $7,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEYENNE COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHEYENNE COUNTY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE HISTORIC STANLEY HOME FOUNDATIO: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFullertons Future Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Douglas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Colorado Down Syndrome Association: $3,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPURPLE AND GOLD LEGACY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThompson Valley Art League: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ESTES PARK POST 119 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWindsor Severance Food Pantry: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFORT SEDGWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSERVE 6 8: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVELAND STRATEGIC PATRNERSHIP: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican Legacy Academy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEstes Park Learning Place Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAINS WEST CASA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOOTHILLS GATEWAY REHABILITATION CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE VILLAGE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWeld RE-4 Education Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEYTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $650 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWYOMING STATE 4-H FOUNDATION: $90 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 THE HISTORIC STANLEY HOME FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds Fullertons Future Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Douglas ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Otter Cares Foundatio…Nebraska Community Fo…The Weld TrustColorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationWeld Community Founda…First Interstate Banc…The Denver FoundationDaniels FundUnited Way of Larimer…The Independent Chari…
Community Foundation of Northern ColoradoCO34.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 98 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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