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Richard and Mary Kemme Foundation at a glance

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Richard and Mary Kemme Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$62k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$99kInternational$91kFood & Nutrition$74kYouth Development$53kHealth$50kPhilanthropy$42kHousing & Shelter$42kReligion$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAMI Colorado$12,000
Weld County Food Bank Greeley$12,000
North Littleton Promise$8,000
Huntington County Community Foundation$6,000
Valley Settlement$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Fabretto Childrens Foundation$6,000
Health Volunteers Overseas$5,000
Colorado Humanities$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Health Volunteers Overseas: $5k → 14%Valley Settlement: $12k → 6%Valley Settlement: $6k → 8%North Littleton Promise: $8k → 8%Greeley-Weld Habitat for Humanity: $25k → 9%Global Health Initiatives: $23k → 12%Huntington County Community Foundation: $25k → 13%Fabretto Childrens Foundation: $6k → 14%FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $19k → 7%Valley Settlement: $11k → 6%NAMI Colorado: $12k → 8%Weld County Food Bank Greeley: $13k → 9%FREE Spiritual Community: $10k → 12%Huntington County Community Foundation: $6k → 13%Fabretto Children's Foundation: $5k → 14%FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%VALLEY SETTLEMENT: $10k → 6%NAMI Colorado: $12k → 8%WELD COUNTY FOOD BANK GREELEY: $13k → 9%Huntington County Community Foundation: $5k → 13%Fabretto Children's Foundation: $10k → 7%VALLEY SETTLEMENT: $8k → 6%NAMI Colorado: $9k → 8%Weld County Food Bank Greeley: $12k → 9%FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%Valley Settlement: $8k → 6%COLORADO HUMANITIES: $5k → 8%Weld County Food Bank Greeley: $12k → 9%VALLEY SETTLEMENT: $8k → 6%Colorado Humanities: $3k → 8%GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 9%COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $7k → 6%Colorado Humanities: $500 → 8%WELD COUNTY FOOD BANK GREELEY: $10k → 9%The People's Clinic: $6k → 6%Weld County Food Bank Greeley: $9k → 9%Colorado Rocky Mountain School: $3k → 6%GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7k → 9%COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $3k → 6%UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY: $7k → 9%Colorado Rocky Mountain School: $1k → 6%NORTH COLORADO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%Colorado Rocky Mountain School: $1k → 6%WELD COUNTY FOOD BANK GREELEY: $5k → 9%HOSPICE OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $7k → 9%HOSPICE OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $5k → 9%SAINT MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 9%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$398k · 11 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$398k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+68%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • VS
    VALLEY SETTLEMENT
    7× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +26%
  • NL
    NORTH LITTLETON PROMISE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +143%
  • GA
    GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2017–2022 · $42k · revenue +438%

Funded once

  • GH
    GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
  • FR
    FREE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -47%
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -9%
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
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
2
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
3
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
4
Gallup Community Health

Gallup community health's mission is to provide excellent and accessible medical care to our community, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
5
Western Colorado Healthcare Alliance

To help rural providers with collaborative solutions and resources focusing on rural healthcare.

Education
6
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
7
Colorado Uplift Inc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.

Education
8
Urban Land Conservancy

Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.

Community Improvement
9
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
10
Community Resources and Housing Development Corporation

Community resources and housing development corporation provides pathways to home and asset building opportunities to benefit low-to-moderate income communities throughout colorado.

Housing & Shelter
11
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
12
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global Health Initiatives. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Weld County Food Bank Greeley: $74,000 · OtherWeld County Food Bank GreeleyNorth Littleton Promise: $25,000 · OtherNorth Littleton PromiseUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO PARENT FUND: $23,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO PARENT FUNDGLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES: $23,000 · OtherGLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVESHOSPICE OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $11,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF NORTHERN COLORADOTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherFREE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CORP: $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO HUMANITIES: $8,000 · Other+4 more: $20,500 · Other+4 moreVALLEY SETTLEMENT: $62,000 · EducationVALLEY SETTLEMEN…COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $14,000 · EducationCOLORADO ROCKY M…FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 · InternationalFABRETTO CHILD…HEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC: $5,000 · InternationalHEALTH VOLUNTE…NORTH LITTLETON PROMISE: $43,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH LIT…HUNTINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FDTN INC: $35,500 · PhilanthropyHUNTINGTO…UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $6,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $41,500 · Housing & ShelterGREELEY A…NAMI COLORADO: $33,000 · HealthWELD LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Other$205,000Education$76,000International$67,500Youth Development$43,000Philanthropy$42,000Housing & Shelter$41,500Health$38,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVALLEY SETTLEMENT: $62,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH LITTLETON PROMISE: $43,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetGREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $41,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FDTN INC: $35,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI COLORADO: $33,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFREE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO HUMANITIES: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELD LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LITTLETON PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FDTN INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HUMANITIES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Weld Community Founda…The Denver FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Otter Cares Foundatio…Gates Family Foundati…Daniels FundEl Pomar FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Renaissance Charitabl…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Renaissance 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 Richard and Mary Kemme Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Mary Kemme Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Richard and Mary Kemme Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Richard and Mary Kemme Foundation 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 22 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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