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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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$90kFood & Nutrition$86kPhilanthropy$41kCommunity Improvement$41kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$29kHealth$28kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$612k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$2,500
DORCAS CIRCLE FOOD & CLOTHING PNTRY$2,500
DTC SHARES FOUNDATION$2,500
DENVER HEALTH 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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GUNNISON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%SHARING MINISTRIES FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%DORCAS CIRCLE FOOD & CLOTHING PNTRY: $3k → 19%GUNNISON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%SHARING MINISTRIES FOOD BANK: $2k → 12%SHARING MINISTRIES FOOD BANK: $2k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%BESSIES HOPE: $4k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $11k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$335k · 22 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$335k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+0%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL HEART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +42%
  • TW
    THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +116%
  • DP
    DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +456%

Funded once

  • SH
    SENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +54%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • BH
    Bessies Hope
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -61%
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 Food Cluster Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
Colorado Healing Fund

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

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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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
NeighborWorks Housing Services of Pueblo Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Meals On Wheels of Boulder Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
Denver Pet Partners

To deliver excellence in animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and enhance the health and wellness of people through AAI services, education & networking.

Health
10
Lander Care and Share Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
12
Housing Resources of Western Colorado

To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.

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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 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 36 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL WESTERN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK: $59,500 · OtherNATIONAL WESTERN JUNIOR LIVESTOCKVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $57,864 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $18,200 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE DENVER: $9,635 · OtherCOBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD: $9,319 · Other+17 more: $31,211 · Other+17 moreDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Human ServicesDENVER POLICE …Sharing Ministries Inc: $7,278 · Human ServicesSharing Minist…Bessies Hope: $4,000 · Human ServicesBessies HopeDORCAS CIRCLE: $2,500 · Human ServicesGUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,070 · Human ServicesPROFESSIONALS MIRACLES FOUNDATION CO TERESA POWERS: $23,279 · PhilanthropyPROFESSIONAL…DTC SHARES FOUNDATION: $17,500 · PhilanthropyDTC SHARES F…PROJECT ANGEL HEART: $40,581 · Community ImprovementPROJECT ANGE…THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $33,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTER…+1 more: $1,025 · Recreation & SportsSENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterWELD FOOD BANK: $5,199 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,140 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc: $2,079 · Food & Nutrition
Other$185,729Human Services$47,848Philanthropy$40,779Community Improvement$40,581Recreation & Sports$34,025Housing & Shelter$12,500Food & Nutrition$12,418

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 budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $40,581 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetPROFESSIONALS MIRACLES FOUNDATION CO TERESA POWERS: $23,279 over 6y, 12% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $18,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDTC SHARES FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetSENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD: $9,319 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSharing Ministries Inc: $7,278 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $5,199 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBessies Hope: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $3,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREEL RECOVERY INC: $2,520 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDORCAS CIRCLE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCraig Hospital: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $2,079 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,070 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG DOGS HUGE PAWS INC: $2,031 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERNAIRES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,010 over 2y, 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Western Union Foundat…Daniels FundEl Pomar FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Amg Charitable Gift F…Mile High United Way …Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for Good
Colorado Gives FoundationCO23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Osage Initiatives funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Osage Initiatives. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Osage Initiatives?

Find your warmest path to Osage Initiatives 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 36 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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