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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.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$347kAnimals$152kEducation$140kYouth Development$109kCommunity Improvement$65kArts & Culture$58kRecreation & Sports$57kHealth$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION$7,000
Big Brothers and Sisters$5,000
BE DIFFERENT FOUNDATION$5,000
A PRECIOUS CHILD$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
PROJECT HOOD$5,000
Denver Art Museum$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,500
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Friends of Man$4,000
Semper Fi Fund$4,000
MAXFUND ADOPTION$4,000
WARREN VILLAGE$4,000
MAXFUND DAY SHELTER$4,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $4k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%MERCY CHEFS: $1k → 20%BOYS TOWN: $4k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%BOYS TOWN: $3k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%BOYS TOWN: $3k → 12%A Precious Child: $5k → 12%A Precious Child: $3k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $4k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $4k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $4k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$994k · 60 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
12

Total granted

$994k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

62%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • YA
    YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +21%
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL HEART
    6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +65%
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • WC
    Warrior's Chariot Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -46% · 37% of their budget
  • MH
    Mary's Home
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GD
    GEMS DEVELOPMENT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Invest in Kids

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.

Youth Development
2
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
3
Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion
4
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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5
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

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,…

Education
6
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
7
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
8
The Home Front Cares Inc

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.

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9
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
11
Sos Outreach

Sos outreach changes young lives, building character and leadership in underserved kids through mentoring outdoors.

Recreation & Sports
12
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $44,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATIONMAXFUND WELLNESS: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $26,500 · OtherMAXFUND DAY SHELTER: $25,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $21,500 · OtherBACK THE BLUE CANINE FORCE: $21,000 · OtherBig Brothers and Sisters: $21,000 · OtherDENVER ART MUSEUM: $31,500 · OtherGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Other+44 more: $309,400 · Other+44 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $24,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…SUMMER SCHOLARS: $19,500 · EducationSUMMER SCHOLA…DENVER KIDS INC: $18,000 · EducationDENVER KIDS I…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $17,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COL…SOLDIER STRONG INC: $17,500 · EducationSOLDIER STRON…+2 more: $5,000 · EducationPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $33,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT A…EARTHLINKS INC: $29,000 · Community ImprovementEARTHLINK…PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $18,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT H…OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $10,500 · Community ImprovementOPERATION…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesWelcome Home Montrose Inc: $22,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $14,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $8,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $33,500 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsGLOBAL DENTAL RELIEF: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsPAWS AND STRIPES INC: $23,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $20,500 · AnimalsFront Range Equine Rescue: $12,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $9,000 · AnimalsSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $23,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $21,000 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $6,500 · Health
Other$601,900Education$124,500Community Improvement$90,500Human Services$84,000Recreation & Sports$67,500Animals$64,500Health$50,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $33,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $31,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS AND STRIPES INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWelcome Home Montrose Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SCHOLARS: $19,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGE SCHOOL PTCO: $18,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL DENTAL RELIEF: $17,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TOP CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $12,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST FRANCIS CENTER: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWarrior's Chariot Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 37% of budgetCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC: $6,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Reading Connection: $4,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVIA LOVE INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
  • 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 DENVER KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGE SCHOOL PTCO ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Schlessman Foundation…Mile High United Way …The Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Denver Children's…The Anschutz Foundati…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
The Denver FoundationCO20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Reel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–60%
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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How do I get to Reel Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Reel Family Foundation Inc 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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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