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Onward a Legacy Foundation

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$442k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$159k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$778kHousing & Shelter$307kEducation$250kAnimals$156kHuman Services$152kArts & Culture$113kPhilanthropy$69kRecreation & Sports$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $352,992, the rows itemized in this filing. The $441,892 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $88,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$13,649
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grants 5000 and under$158,589
Good Samaritan Center$91,029
BRIDGE EMERGENCY SHLTR$32,500
Peacefull Tomorrows$20,000
Fundamental Needs Inc$13,649
Cortez Animal Shelter$10,000
Montezuma Heritage Museum$9,300
Durango School District 9-R$6,500
Four Corners Writers$5,925
Montezuma Land Conservancy$5,500
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 (FY17–21, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Castle Rock Comm Church: $10k → 3%Lift Up of Routt Co: $8k → 6%High Plains Helping Hands: $10k → 9%Sharing Ministries Food Bank: $8k → 12%ROCK: $20k → 13%House of Neighborly Service: $6k → 11%ROCK: $5k → 13%Catholic Charities of the Dio: $7k → 15%Tri-Lakes Cares: $8k → 9%Sister Carmen Comm Center: $6k → 12%Silver Key Senior Services: $9k → 9%Jewish Family Svc of CO: $8k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance: $9k → 12%RENEW INC: $6k → 15%The Pinon Project: $6k → 15%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 16 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
57

Total granted

$2.2M
$726k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+51%

Still filing today

56%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • DF
    DURANGO FOOD BANK
    2× · 2019–2023 · $276k · revenue +19%
  • TG
    THE GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +117%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD
    5× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $215k · revenue +21%
  • NM
    National Mustang Association Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • MT
    MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHENgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +55%
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
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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2
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
3
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
Foothills Food Bank

Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

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5
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
6
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
7
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
8
Northwest Family Assistance Center

Our mission is to provide emergency and alternative food resources to residents of Northwest Denver in ways that promote respect and dignity.

—
9
Feeding Colorado

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
UpRoot Colorado

UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…

Food & Nutrition
11
Capitol Hill Community Services

Feed the homeless and disadvantaged in inner city Denver, CO

Food & Nutrition
12
Central Utah Food Sharing

Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center; the most unlike its peers is Lor Foundation Inc. 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

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
50/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Grants 5000 and under: $566,256 · OtherGrants 5000 and underGrants under 5000: $473,551 · OtherGrants under 5000THE GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER: $157,540 · OtherTHE GOOD SAMARITAN CENTERCortez Animal Shelter: $106,150 · OtherCortez Animal Shelter+39 more: $560,801 · Other+39 moreDURANGO FOOD BANK: $275,500 · Food & NutritionDURANGO FOOD…Fundamental Needs Inc: $13,649 · Food & Nutrition+7 more: $44,500 · Food & Nutrition+7 moreTHE BRIDGE EMERGENCY SHELTER: $299,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE BRIDGE …+1 more: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $215,000 · EducationONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $21,762 · EducationReaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK: $25,981 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $10,000 · Human ServicesCASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE: $9,500 · Human ServicesFRESH START CENTER INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesMercy's Gate: $9,000 · Human ServicesSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $9,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CARES: $8,000 · Human ServicesSharing Ministries Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesLift Up of Routt County: $8,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesRENEW INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesThe Pinon Project: $5,500 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $5,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD: $68,000 · Arts & CultureMONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,300 · Arts & CultureLOR FOUNDATION INC: $21,127 · PhilanthropySEPTEMBER 11TH WIDOWS AND VICTIMS FAMILIES ASSOC INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,864,298Food & Nutrition$333,649Housing & Shelter$306,000Education$236,762Human Services$161,481Arts & Culture$77,300Philanthropy$47,127

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BRIDGE EMERGENCY SHELTER: $299,500 over 8y, 35% of budgetDURANGO FOOD BANK: $275,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER: $157,540 over 4y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD: $68,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION: $54,735 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $37,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVillage Center for the Arts Inc: $29,650 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $28,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetReaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK: $25,981 over 2y, 12% of budgetONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $21,762 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLOR FOUNDATION INC: $21,127 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSEPTEMBER 11TH WIDOWS AND VICTIMS FAMILIES ASSOC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFOUR CORNERS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $16,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFundamental Needs Inc: $13,649 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE: $9,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,300 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPTA Colorado Congress dba South High School PTSA: $9,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMercy's Gate: $9,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER: $8,884 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSharing Ministries Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHARVEST MOUNTAIN MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLift Up of Routt County: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRising Up: $6,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENEW INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pinon Project: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADAMS COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $5,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Trailhead InstituteEl Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …Anschutz Family Found…Energy Outreach Color…The Colorado Health F…Av Hunter Trust Incor…Rocky Mountain Health…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado TrustBallantine Family Fund
Trailhead InstituteCO82.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trailhead Institute · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Energy Outreach Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Ballantine Family 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 Onward a Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Onward a Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Village Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Onward a Legacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Onward a Legacy 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 79 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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