· Private foundation
Reel Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| Big Brothers and Sisters | $5,000 |
| BE DIFFERENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOOD | $5,000 |
| A PRECIOUS CHILD | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Denver Art Museum | $4,500 |
| WARREN VILLAGE | $4,000 |
| Young AmericanCenter for Financial Ed | $4,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| SAMARITAN PURSE | $4,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver | $4,000 |
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $4,000 |
| BACK THE BLUE CANINE FORCE | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- YAYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +21%
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEART6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +65%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WCWarrior's Chariot Incone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -46% · 37% of their budget
- GDGEMS DEVELOPMENT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
- MHMary's Homeone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The Home Front Cares serves the entire state of Colorado providing emergency and responsive support for Colorado service members, veterans and military families who have been impacted by deployment in harms way.
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.
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
Sos outreach changes young lives, building character and leadership in underserved kids through mentoring outdoors.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Children's Reading Connection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. 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 — 0.0% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 84 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 YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EARTHLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND STRIPES INC ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Welcome Home Montrose Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE SCHOOL PTCO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DENTAL RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Front Range Equine Rescue ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Reel Family Foundation Inc 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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