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Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k469 grants · $307k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA | $57,500 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $35,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO | $25,000 |
| CANON CITY SCHOOLS FREMONT RE-1 | $25,000 |
| North Park School | $21,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $20,000 |
| Harris Bilingual Elementary School | $20,000 |
| CITY OF FORT COLLINS | $20,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $18,750 |
| GLOBAL LEADERS INC | $18,000 |
| Preston Middle School | $15,405 |
| YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $14,500 |
| Lesher Middle School | $11,000 |
| THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
381 repeat relationships — 217 still active in FY2024, 164 since wound down; 143 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +54%
- MLMINDSPARK LEARNING3× · 2020–2023 · $160k · revenue +90%
- TRTHOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $132k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- WRWELD RE-4 SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $43k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - MILE HIGH CHAPTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CECOLORADO ENTERPRISE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +34%
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.
C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)
Working with our compassionate community, we will end pet homelessness and animal suffering.
Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Realities for Children Charities and the most unlike its peers is Cattle for Kids. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
576 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. 576 of the 941 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDSPARK LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENS OF SPRING CREEK ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds GREATER THAN TECH ↗
- Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING CHOICE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Succeeds ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds GRACE UPON GRACE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Core Knowledge Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds ST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · United Way of Larimer County · Colorado Gives Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · The Weld Trust · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · United Way of Weld County Inc · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · El Pomar Foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · Northern Colorado United for Youth
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 Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES 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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