How much does Realities for Children Charities give?

Realities for Children Charities reported 26 itemized grants totaling $335,690, out of $900,728 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Realities for Children Charities fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (63%), Human Services (19%), Health (8%).

Who are Realities for Children Charities's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hearts & Horses Inc ($150k), Finally Home Foundation ($125k), Alternatives to Violence Inc ($115k).

Does Realities for Children Charities fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Realities for Children Charities?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, Colorado Gives Foundation.

Where is Realities for Children Charities based?

Realities for Children Charities is based in CO.

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Realities for Children Charities

REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES inc is dedicated to serving the needs of abused and neglected children in larimer and weld counties. We provide emergency funding and critical support to local non-profit and governmental organizations that serve abused, neglected, and at-risk children, including item distributions, youth activities, and…

$901k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Itemized grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2024: 8%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $336k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $13,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $22,000
Organizations funded a year: 19 to 26; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $7.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Realities for Children Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$336k	12%
FY2024	24	$294k	8%
FY2023	24	$286k	8%
FY2022	22	$282k	0%
FY2021	22	$205k	5%
FY2020	19	$205k	16%
FY2019	24	$217k	8%
FY2018	26	$212k	8%

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What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.5MHuman Services$445kHealth$186kCrime & Legal$123kEducation$42kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hearts & Horses Inc	$149,515	9	2%
Finally Home Foundation	$125,486	9	5%
Alternatives to Violence Inc	$115,137	9	3%
Weld County Greeley Colorado	$106,105	8	n/a
Larimer County Conservation Corps	$106,071	9	n/a
Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado	$102,829	9	2%
The Matthews House	$101,070	7	1%
The Family Centerla Familia	$100,926	9	1%
House of Neighborly Service	$96,037	8	1%
Larimer County Partners Dba Partners Mentoring Youth	$95,050	9	2%

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All grantees of Realities for Children Charities by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hearts & Horses Inc	$149,515	9	2%
Finally Home Foundation	$125,486	9	5%
Alternatives to Violence Inc	$115,137	9	3%
Weld County Greeley Colorado	$106,105	8	n/a
Larimer County Conservation Corps	$106,071	9	n/a
Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado	$102,829	9	2%
The Matthews House	$101,070	7	1%
The Family Centerla Familia	$100,926	9	1%
House of Neighborly Service	$96,037	8	1%
Larimer County Partners Dba Partners Mentoring Youth	$95,050	9	2%
Court Appointed Special Advocate Inc	$91,697	6	1%
Compass Community Collaborative School	$82,165	8	n/a
Foster & Adoptive Families of Larimer County	$81,172	8	8%
Center for Family Outreach Inc	$72,608	7	2%
For the Children	$72,480	8	1%
Childsafe Colorado Inc	$72,000	5	1%
Jacob Family Services Inc	$69,677	8	1%
Homeward Alliance Inc	$56,805	6	0%
Adoption Dreams Come True Inc	$56,554	6	3%
Turning Point Center for Youth & Family Development Inc	$56,529	6	1%
University of Colorado Health	$53,456	8	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado	$52,004	6	0%
Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center	$41,802	5	1%
Summitstone Health Partners	$36,081	6	0%
Safe Families for Children Alliance	$30,589	3	0%
Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center	$28,412	4	1%
Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services	$27,650	1	n/a
Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center	$26,213	5	0%
Nightlight Christian Adoptions	$23,000	2	0%
The Crawford Child Advocacy Center	$22,096	2	2%
Heart of the Rockies Christian Church	$19,050	3	n/a
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc	$17,947	5	3%
Grand Family Coalition Inc	$12,061	2	49%
Respite Care Inc	$10,500	1	0%
Timberline Church	$10,000	1	n/a
3hopeful Hearts	$6,500	1	2%
Team Fort Collins Inc	$6,000	1	1%
Raise the Future	$5,760	1	0%
Laramie River Valley Rendezvous	$4,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Realities for Children Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Community Foundation of Northern ColoradoCO64× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Northern Colorado United for Youth · The Food Bank for Larimer County · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · The Nordson Corporation 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.

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About Realities for Children Charities

How much does Realities for Children Charities give?: Realities for Children Charities reported 26 itemized grants totaling $335,690, out of $900,728 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Realities for Children Charities fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (63%), Human Services (19%), Health (8%).
Who are Realities for Children Charities's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hearts & Horses Inc ($150k), Finally Home Foundation ($125k), Alternatives to Violence Inc ($115k).
Does Realities for Children Charities fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Realities for Children Charities?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Realities for Children Charities based?: Realities for Children Charities is based in CO.