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Ray Lanyon Fund at a glance

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Ray Lanyon Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$48kCrime & Legal$37kHuman Services$36kFood & Nutrition$31kArts & Culture$24kEducation$24kHousing & Shelter$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k9 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONGS PEAK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
COLORADO FRIENDSHIP$10,000
RISE AGAINST SUICIDE$6,000
SKYLINE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
LONGMONT HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS B$5,000
BOULDER COMMUNITY HOUSING$5,000
GROWING GARDEN OF BOULDER COUNTY$5,000
FIRST CONGREGRETIONAL UCC LONGMONT$5,000
ST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$3,000
GATEWAY MONTESSORI SCHOOL$3,000
LONGMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $4k → 7%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 10%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $4k → 7%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 10%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $2k → 9%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 12%TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $5k → 12%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER -: $4k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $5k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 18 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
23

Total granted

$185k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

72%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC
    4× · 2022–2026 · $23k · revenue +7%
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +6%
  • EC
    EL COMITE DE LONGMONT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • LM
    LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +10%
  • TI
    THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +154%
  • RC
    RECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT
    one grant, 2025 · $9k · 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
Longmont Economic Development Partnership

Providing information and services to existing and prospective businesses and industries.

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2
Longmont Christian School

Provide quality christian education built on a firm foundation of biblical truths and academic excellence to prepare our students for successful christian living

Education
3
In Colorado Initiative for Inclusive Higher Education

Develop college pathways for students with intellectual disabilities.

Education
4
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
5
Integrated Community

Integrated Community (CIIC) is an educational and a human service organization dedicated to supporting immigrant families integrate to the way of life in our community by gaining greater linguistic and cultural competency.

Human Services
6
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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7
High Rockies Community School

Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…

Education
8
Boulder Chorale

To enrich and inspire a broad community through music.

Arts & Culture
9
Thistle Community Housing

The Mission of Thistle Communities is to create and preserve quality, permanently affordable rental and ownership homes for working families, seniors and people with disabilities. Thistles homes allow teachers, health-care workers, and…

Housing & Shelter
10
Larimer Consensus Group Inc

Larimer Consensus Group, Inc. shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes to combat community deterioration, unemployment, poverty, racial discrimination; to provide opportunities for quality housing,…

Philanthropy
11
Longmont Concert Band

The Longmont Concert Band is a nonprofit organization composed of volunteer musicians from the surrounding community. Our goals are to provide quality concert band music to the general public, to provide a fun and invigorating atmosphere…

Arts & Culture
12
Loving Beyond Understanding

Loving Beyond Understanding's mission is to empower and support our LGBTQ+ community - especially in rural Western Colorado - through inclusive spaces, affirming resources, and health equity initiatives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Cafe Longmont; the most unlike its peers is Rise Against Suicide. 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 43 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EL COMITE DE LONGMONT: $12,000 · OtherEL COMITE DE LONGMONTLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $12,000 · OtherLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INCFIRST CONGREGRETIONAL UCC LONGMONT: $8,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGRETIONAL UCC LONGMONTST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · OtherST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN…LONGMONT ENDING VIOLENCE INITIATIVE: $8,000 · OtherLONGMONT ENDING VIOLENCE INITIATIVEGROWING GARDEN OF BOULDER COUNTY: $8,000 · OtherGROWING GARDEN OF BOULDER COUNTYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY: $7,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEYLONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,115 · OtherLONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSKYLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · OtherSKYLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCLEAF LYONS EMERGENCY AND ASSISTANCE: $5,000 · OtherINTERCAMBIO: $4,000 · Other+11 more: $21,000 · Other+11 moreDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $12,000 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL DI…THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR P…INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $10,000 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE C…TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTRU COMMUNITY CA…COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,200 · Human ServicesRise Against Suicide: $16,000 · HealthRise Against Su…LONGS PEAK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLONGS PEAK HOSP…RECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT: $9,000 · HealthRECOVERY CAFE L…DENTAL AID: $5,000 · HealthDENTAL AIDTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · EducationTINY TIM CENT…LONGMONT HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS BOOSTERS: $9,000 · EducationLONGMONT HIGH…WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $7,500 · EducationWILD PLUM CEN…TEACHING PEACE INC: $4,000 · EducationTEACHING PEAC…GATEWAY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationGATEWAY MONTE…INTEGRAL STEPS INC: $2,000 · EducationINTEGRAL STEP…CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $22,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD AND…THE REENTRY INITIATIVE: $2,500 · Crime & LegalTHE REENT…COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC: $23,000 · Food & NutritionTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBoulder Community Housing Corporation Inc: $9,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$107,615Human Services$41,200Health$40,000Education$35,500Crime & Legal$24,500Food & Nutrition$23,000Housing & Shelter$19,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC: $23,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $22,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEL COMITE DE LONGMONT: $12,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBoulder Community Housing Corporation Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLONGMONT HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS BOOSTERS: $9,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,115 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENTAL AID: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEACHING PEACE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLONGMONT YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE REENTRY INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA BOULDER COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTEGRAL STEPS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOAL CREEK ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe St Vrain Historical Society Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Longmont Senior Center: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGMONT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLONGMONT CHORALE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

The Longmont Communit…Lynn & Helen N Clark …Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Collins FoundationThe Denver FoundationAEC TrustBraly Family Foundati…Mile High United Way …The Edmund T & Eleano…Rose Community Founda…
The Longmont Community FoundationCO61.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Longmont Community Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · Collins Foundation · The Denver Foundation · AEC Trust · Braly Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick Foundation · Rose Community 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 Lanyon Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray Lanyon Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Lanyon Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Ray Lanyon Fund 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 43 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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