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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $335,690 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $900,728 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $565,038 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY | $22,000 |
| HEARTS & HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $22,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LARIMER COUNTY | $18,999 |
| FINALLY HOME FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,944 |
| LARIMER COUNTY DEPT OF HUMAN SERV | $16,688 |
| ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE | $15,986 |
| THE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA | $15,945 |
| FOSTER ADOPTIVE FAMILIES OF LARIMER | $15,500 |
| EVICS | $15,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $14,967 |
| NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTION | $13,500 |
| THE CENTER FOR FAMILY OUTREACH | $13,000 |
| PARTNERS | $13,000 |
| WELD COUNTY DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES | $12,271 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $695k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- HHHEARTS & HORSES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +121%
- FHFinally Home Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +191%
- ATAlternatives to Violence Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- NSNorthern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Servicesone grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -71%
- TCTIMBERLINE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- 3H3HOPEFUL HEARTSone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +11%
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 mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Family tree partners with all people to prevent and overcome the interconnected issues of child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness to promote safety, healing and stability across generations.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
Hope center for children's mission is to build stable, healthy families in the upstate of sc by providing a safe place from abuse and neglect.
Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raise the Future and the most unlike its peers is Finally Home Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 41 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 HEARTS & HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Finally Home Foundation ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER & ADOPTIVE FAMILIES OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Center for Family Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION DREAMS COME TRUE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Summitstone Health Partners ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services ↗
- Who funds TEACHING TREE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc ↗
- Who funds Grand Family Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds 3HOPEFUL HEARTS ↗
- Who funds TEAM FORT COLLINS INC ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
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: 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
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 Realities for Children Charities 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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