· Private foundation
Osage Initiatives
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL WESTERN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK | $15,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $7,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $6,364 |
| PROFESSIONAL MIRACLES FOUNDATION | $6,239 |
| COBBLED STREETS | $5,199 |
| SHARING MINISTRIES FOOD BANK | $3,120 |
| DORCAS CIRCLE FOOD & CLOTHING PNTRY | $2,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DTC SHARES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST GEORGE EPISCOPAL MISSION FOOD | $2,080 |
| BIG DOGS HUGE PAWS | $2,031 |
| CITIZENS APPRECIATE POLICE | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $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 (FY17–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEART6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +42%
- TWTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +116%
- DPDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +456%
Funded once
- SHSENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +54%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
- BHBessies Hopeone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -61%
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.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
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.
Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado
Provide food for individuals in need
Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.
Our mission is to promote healthy, vibrant neighborhoods and serve as a first choice for homebuyer resources in Southern Colorado. We have four pillars: educate, build, lend, and engage, that guide us in everything we do. Our HUD-certified…
The mission of meals on wheels is to provide nutritious meals to residents of the community who need and want their services, regardless of age or income.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
To deliver excellence in animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and enhance the health and wellness of people through AAI services, education & networking.
Lander care and share food bank provides food to needy individuals and families in fremont county wyoming without regard to race, nationality, creed or income.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center and the most unlike its peers is Big Dogs Huge Paws Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 36 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 PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONALS MIRACLES FOUNDATION CO TERESA POWERS ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DTC SHARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Sharing Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bessies Hope ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds REEL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds DORCAS CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOGS HUGE PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERNAIRES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS OF HOPE ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 Osage Initiatives 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
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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