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Richard Reed Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $183k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $422k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRECKENRIDGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| ROBIN'S NEST FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOUSED WORKING AND HEALTHY | $20,000 |
| BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS | $15,000 |
| ELK SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
| GOOD LIFE REFUGE | $15,000 |
| LAS ANIMAS DOG RESCUE ASSOCIATION AC (LADRA) | $15,000 |
| SMART BELLIES | $15,000 |
| GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY | $12,000 |
| TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE | $10,000 |
| TREELINE PASS | $10,000 |
| 4 PAWS 4 LIFE | $10,000 |
| ZENEROSITY | $10,000 |
| TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $477k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 25 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- HFHOME FUR GOOD ANIMAL RESCUE AND PLACEMENT7× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +40%
- DCDenver Colorado Figure Skating Club3× · 2019–2021 · $128k · revenue +136%
- TWTHERE WITH CARE6× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- RNROBIN'S NESTone grant, 2022 · $37k
- SCSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +4%
- PTPegasus Therapeutic Riding Center of Coachella Valleyone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -39%
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.
Rocky Mountain Puppy Rescue is a group of hardworking fosters and volunteers who work to save the lives of unwanted dogs and puppies around the Colorado area. We focus on the younger animals that, when dumped in a shelter, are often…
The mission of Northern Colorado Wildlife Center a 501c3 independent nonprofit is to protect wildlife and the places they call home through wildlife rescue wildlife rehabilitation education and advocacy.
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.
Routt County Humane Society is a community resource that helps animals in need through sheltering, adoption, education, veterinary services and community outreach.
To rescue and rehabilitate abused and neglected farm animals educate the public about the benefits of a healthy vegan lifestyle promote sustainability through plant-based living and create meaningful connections between farm animals and…
The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible, always growing digital guide for any resources or information you need in order to responsibly create and successfully manage an animal sanctuary or to provide the best possible care to…
Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roundup River Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Charlies Acres. 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 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 136 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 HOME FUR GOOD ANIMAL RESCUE AND PLACEMENT ↗
- Who funds Denver Colorado Figure Skating Club ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBINS NEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds Broken Shovels Farm and Sanctuary School ↗
- Who funds HALLECK CREEK RANCH ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods ↗
- Who funds Project Restart Inc ↗
- Who funds TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY ↗
- Who funds VIDAS ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Good Life Refuge ↗
- Who funds SMART BELLIES ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Rescue Center of Napa County Inc ↗
- Who funds BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds ZENEROSITY ↗
- Who funds TREELINE PASS INC ↗
- Who funds Luvin Arms ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Trailhead Institute · Western Union 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 Richard Reed Foundation 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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