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.

Realities for Children Charities

Realities for Children Charities at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

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.

$901k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$22k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 26 grants below total $335,690, the rows itemized in this filing. The $900,728 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $565,038 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $37k
$10k–50k20 grants · $299k

$13,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 32 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+11%

Still filing today

81%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

HH
HEARTS & HORSES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +121%
FH
Finally Home Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +191%
AT
Alternatives to Violence Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +167%

Funded once

NS
Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services
one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -71%
TC
TIMBERLINE CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $10k
3H
3HOPEFUL HEARTS
one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +11%

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.

Christian Family Care Agency Inc

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,…

Human Services

Safehouse Denver Inc

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,…

Human Services

Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of critical human services.

Human Services

Family Tree Inc

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.

Human Services

Allies for Every Child Inc

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)

Human Services

Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services

The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

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…

Crime & Legal

Hope Center for Children

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.

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Iris Family Support Center Inc

Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.

Human Services

Wayfinder Family Services

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…

Human Services

Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

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.

Human Services

Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc

To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raise the Future; 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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/33

Grantees still filing

24/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$738,304Human Services$707,213Health$185,596Youth Development$167,658Education$167,288Crime & Legal$122,508Religion$102,829Recreation & Sports$72,480

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Realities for Children Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Realities for Children Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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