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Rada Family Foundation at a glance

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Rada Family Foundation

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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$205kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kRecreation & Sports$25kHuman Services$22kAnimals$20kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$3k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$25,000
BOULDER POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY20–21, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $12k → 5%THERE WITH CARE: $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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$236k · 4 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$236k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & 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

  • FF
    FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $102k · revenue +6%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +33%
  • GW
    GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +119%
  • AP
    A PRECIOUS CHILD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +36%
  • HL
    HILLSIDE LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
2
Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education
3
Brown School

Running a private school.

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4
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
5
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
9
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
10
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
11
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
12
Gould Academy

Gould academy guides students to be creative, courageous and resilient and to lead lives of fulfillment and purpose.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Precious Child Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boulder Police Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $102,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNT…+2 more: $6,300 · Other+2 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONHILLSIDE LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · EducationHILLSIDE LEARNING CENTERRhodes College: $8,260 · EducationRhodes CollegeTEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationTEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOLBoulder Police Foundation: $38,500 · Public Safety & DisasterBoulder Polic…UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: $20,000 · AnimalsBOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$108,300Education$100,260Public Safety & Disaster$38,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Human Services$22,000Animals$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetFUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $102,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoulder Police Foundation: $38,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSIDE LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRhodes College: $8,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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…Community Foundation …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 13 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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