· Private foundation
Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nathan Yip Foundation | $11,300 |
| Denver Rotary Club | $6,000 |
| Junior League of Denver | $5,050 |
| Salvation Army | $2,331 |
| Earthlinks Inc | $1,000 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $1,000 |
| Rotary Club of Denver SE Foundation | $1,000 |
| Denver Kappa Friendship Fund | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- NYNathan Yip Foundation3× · 2020–2022 · $32k · revenue +82%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue -5%
- DRDenver Rotary Club2× · 2021–2022 · $6k
Funded once
- VMVarious Miscellaneous Charities co Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundationone grant, 2021 · $31k
- TDTHE DENVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -7%
- DRDenver Rotary Foundationone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
The denver children's foundation (fka denver active 20/30 children's foundation) engages young professionals in their 20's and 30's on a philanthropic mission of raising money for various children's charities in our community. through…
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…
The CDA Foundation advances access to oral healthcare through charitable giving, supports the future of the profession through dental school scholarships and promotes dental professional wellbeing.
The mission of the denver rotary club is to engage the passion of its diverse members through local and international service projects, fellowship and philanthropy.
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.
Funding of legal services, pro-bono, and legal education projects.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
The foundation was formed for the purpose of, but not limited to, financial support for the denver bar association's metro volunteer lawyers program. the metro volunteer lawyers program provides pro-bono civil legal services to individuals…
We are committed to improving the strength and stability of our business community. We help our members maximize the value of their membership to increase success.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Uplift Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ol Lentille Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds OL LENTILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOWRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF DENVER SE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP LADIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Center of Denver ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds DENVER WOMAN'S PRESS CLUB ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ray and Melly Kinnard 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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