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Rakowich Family Foundation at a glance

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Rakowich 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.

$324k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MYouth Development$656kPhilanthropy$420kCommunity Improvement$112kHealth$91kRecreation & Sports$79kReligion$74kHousing & Shelter$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$275,000
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$25,000
DOWNING HOUSE$10,000
GREENWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
PROMISE KEEPERS$2,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$2,000
LET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL$2,000
DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$2,000
NEW LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Pennsylvania State University: $13k → 16%CEO FORUM INC: $10k → 8%NATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $25k → 14%John Lester Foundation: $25k → 8%CEO Forum Inc: $20k → 9%University of Colorado: $10k → 10%Colorado Open Golf Foundation: $75k → 12%FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CENTER: $15k → 14%The Pennsylvania State University: $70k → 16%NATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $25k → 14%Alliance for choice in Education: $10k → 7%DOWNING HOUSE: $10k → 8%Waterstone: $15k → 9%Colorado Uplift: $200k → 12%Pennsylvania State University: $20k → 16%Alliance for choice in Education: $10k → 7%DOWNING HOUSE: $10k → 8%The CEO Forum: $25k → 9%Colorado Uplift: $150k → 12%Pennsylvania State University: $10k → 16%ACE scholarship: $10k → 7%DOWNING HOUSE: $10k → 8%The CEO Forum: $20k → 9%Colorado Uplift: $100k → 12%Pennsylvania State University: $10k → 16%Alliance for choice in Education: $10k → 7%Downing Street Foundation: $10k → 8%The CEO Forum: $15k → 9%Colorado Uplift: $100k → 12%Pennsylvania State University: $10k → 16%John Lester Foundation: $10k → 8%The CEO Forum: $15k → 9%COLORADO UPLIFT: $100k → 12%Pennsylvania State University: $10k → 16%DOWNING HOUSE: $10k → 8%Downing Street Foundation: $20k → 12%Greenwood Community Church: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $275k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $274k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%National Leadership Academy: $15k → 12%Pivot Foundation: $100k → 12%Pivot Foundation: $100k → 12%Pivot Foundation: $100k → 12%Spaulding Leadership Institute: $15k → 12%TOMMY SPAULDING LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%TOMMY SPAULDING LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
AZ
AR
DC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 20 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
19

Total granted

$2.5M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+35%

Still filing today

70%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $814k · revenue +2%
  • CU
    COLORADO UPLIFT INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $650k · revenue +43%
  • CF
    CEO FORUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +32%
  • W
    Waterstone
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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 Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
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
3
College Summit Inc

College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…

Education
4
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
The University of Montana Foundation

The university of montana foundation inspires philanthropic support to enhance excellence and opportunity at the university of montana.

Education
8
Community Growth Foundation

The community growth foundation's mission is to foster healthy communities through programmatic and strategic initiatives in housing and support services. healthy communities are not bifurcated along the socio-economic differences within…

Community Improvement
9
Impact Development Fund

Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…

Housing & Shelter
10
Agile Learner Fund

The Agile Learner Fund is a nonprofit organization of Colorado Succeeds. As a supporting organization, ALF exists for the express purpose of supporting activities that benefit Colorado Succeeds' mission, vision, and core strategies. More…

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Uplift Inc; the most unlike its peers is Game Day Memories. 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 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $813,717 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $650,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT INCCEO FORUM INC: $112,000 · EducationCEO FORUM INC+5 more: $105,775 · Education+5 morePIVOT FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyPIVOT FOUNDATIONDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $100,000 · PhilanthropyDowning Street Found…COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO OPEN GOLF F…+2 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $142,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STA…NATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $93,000 · OtherNATIONAL LEADERS…GREENWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherGREENWOOD COMMUN…FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CENTER: $20,000 · OtherUniversity of Colorado: $19,630 · OtherWaterstone: $15,000 · Other+10 more: $42,500 · Other+10 moreJOHN LESTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $6,000 · HealthGame Day Memories: $3,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthPROMISE KEEPERS: $14,000 · ReligionHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $5,000 · InternationalBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $3,872 · InternationalLET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LTBLI at dig: $2,000 · InternationalRICHARD REESE EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · Environment
Education$1,681,492Philanthropy$478,000Other$377,630Health$67,500Religion$14,000International$10,872Public Safety & Disaster$6,000Environment$2,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $813,717 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $650,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetPIVOT FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCEO FORUM INC: $112,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $100,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTommy Spaulding Leadership Institute: $44,775 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetJOHN LESTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPROMISE KEEPERS: $14,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD REESE EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $3,872 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGame Day Memories: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Legacy Charter School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds PIVOT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEO FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Downing Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds JOHN LESTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
  • Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RICHARD REESE EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE2RWANDA INC ↗
  • Who funds Game Day Memories ↗
  • Who funds LET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LTBLI at dig ↗
  • Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New Legacy Charter School ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗

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.

The Denver FoundationChristian Community F…Rose Community Founda…Tyl FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…
The Denver FoundationCO18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Tyl Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Rakowich Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rakowich Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 41 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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