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Prana 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EFAA | $2,645 |
| SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $2,637 |
| HABERT COMMUNITY CHURCH - NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR | $2,551 |
| YMCA OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $2,500 |
| TGTHR | $2,272 |
| BOULDER FOOD RESCUE | $2,060 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $1,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY | $1,050 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER COMMUNITY | $1,040 |
| SAN JOSE WOMENS CLINIC | $1,037 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,030 |
| DHARMA'S GARDEN | $1,030 |
| BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,030 |
| THE SOUP KITCHEN INC | $1,026 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $1,020 |
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, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +63% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SYSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +26%
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +63%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +104%
Funded once
Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Incone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -27%- KFKRD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
- BHBridge Housegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +143%
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.
Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing
The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…
To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.
The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
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 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 ignite curiosity, unleash imagination and cultivate connection at the intersection of art and science through educational youth programs and cultural adult events at our adventure playground and maker-art museum.
Boulder ensemble theatre company creates powerful, engaging, top-quality performances and programs, with meaningful impacts beyond the stage. we serve and welcome colorado's many diverse communities, cultivating an inclusive environment…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Since 1966, BCAA acts as a catalyst to incubate, stimulate and sustain a thriving arts community in Boulder County. BCAA commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive and equitable Boulder…
Bcap's mission is to provide support, advocacy and education to those in our community who are living with or affected by hiv, and to serve as an outreach and information center to prevent the further transmission of hiv.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Krd Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACORN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FERNWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KRD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds FUTURE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZONTA FOOTHILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Prana 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.