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Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation at a glance

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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.

$29k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$36kPhilanthropy$34kCommunity Improvement$22kYouth Development$14kHousing & Shelter$7kHealth$3kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$2,331
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nathan Yip Foundation$11,300
Denver Rotary Club$6,000
Junior League of Denver$5,050
Salvation Army$2,331
Rotary Club of Denver SE Foundation$1,000
Denver Kappa Friendship Fund$1,000
Earthlinks Inc$1,000
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Nathan Yip Foundation: $11k → 8%Composition Primary: $1k → 10%KNITTING FOR PEACE: $100 → 12%SOUP LADIES: $1k → 9%NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%Various Miscellaneous Charities co Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation: $31k → 12%Nathan Yip Foundation: $10k → 8%LOWRY COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 12%Lowry Elementary PTO Food Backpack Program: $1k → 12%Lowry Foundation: $1k → 12%JOHN HAND THEATER: $500 → 12%ANCHOR CENTER: $1k → 12%Anchor Center: $50 → 12%COLORADO UPLIFT: $100 → 12%THE DENVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%Denver Rotary Club: $6k → 12%Denver Rotary Foundation: $6k → 12%MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF DENVER: $100 → 12%EAST HIGH SCHOOL: $100 → 12%Denver Rotary Club: $100 → 12%CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $350 → 12%Salvation Army: $2k → 12%DENVER KIDS: $2k → 12%Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $1k → 12%DENVER WOMENS PRESS CLUB: $100 → 12%OL LENTILLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%Welcome to Colorado International Club: $55 → 12%Junior League of Denver: $5k → 12%Junior League of Denver: $5k → 12%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC: $5k → 12%EARTHLINKS: $1k → 12%Denver Public Library: $1k → 12%Earthlinks Inc: $1k → 12%DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100 → 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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 6 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
26

Total granted

$58k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Community ImprovementHealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • NY
    Nathan Yip Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $32k · revenue +82%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue -5%
  • DR
    Denver Rotary Club
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k

Funded once

  • VM
    Various Miscellaneous Charities co Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $31k
  • TD
    THE DENVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -7%
  • DR
    Denver Rotary Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
The Denver Children's Foundation

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…

Human Services
2
Denver Kiwanis Foundation
Community Improvement
3
Aia Colorado

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…

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4
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
Colorado Dental Association Foundation

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.

Health
6
Rotary Club of Denver

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.

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7
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
8
Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation

Funding of legal services, pro-bono, and legal education projects.

Crime & Legal
9
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
10
Denver Bar Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
11
South Metro Denver Chamber

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.

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12
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Uplift Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various Miscellaneous Charities co Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation: $31,156 · OtherVarious Miscellaneous Charities co Ray and Melly Kinnard …THE DENVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,930 · OtherTHE DENVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATIONDenver Rotary Club: $6,100 · OtherDenver Rotary ClubDenver Rotary Foundation: $5,500 · OtherDenver Rotary FoundationSalvation Army: $2,331 · Other+18 more: $10,330 · Other+18 moreNathan Yip Foundation: $32,425 · PhilanthropyNathan Yip FoundationJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC: $15,143 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF D…EARTHLINKS INC: $2,100 · Community ImprovementEARTHLINKS INCROTARY CLUB OF DENVER SE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LOWRY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterDENVER KIDS INC: $2,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $100 · EducationDENVER WOMAN'S PRESS CLUB: $100 · EducationOL LENTILLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · InternationalTHE SOUP LADIES: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$63,347Philanthropy$32,425Community Improvement$20,243Housing & Shelter$5,000Education$2,200International$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNathan Yip Foundation: $32,425 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC: $15,143 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DENVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,930 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF DENVER SE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOWRY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUP LADIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER WOMAN'S PRESS CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationNetwork for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray and Melly Kinnard 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ray and Melly Kinnard Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 35 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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