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Richey May Cares 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT | $5,150 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS | $1,688 |
| CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,643 |
| ALPINE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $1,607 |
| COLORADO HOMEOWNERSHIP COALITION | $1,040 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $899 |
| SECOR CARES | $520 |
| ACCFB FOOD BANK | $512 |
| DOG RANCH RESCUE | $500 |
| WELLSPRING COMMUNITY | $500 |
| A FRIEND OF JACK RESCUE | $258 |
| PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SLC | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Richey May Cares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- BRBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +783%
- FSFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +28%
- DCDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- APA PRECIOUS CHILD INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +4%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN FISHER HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
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.
Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Face-to-Face Colorado. 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 34 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.
65 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. 65 of the 95 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 BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMEOWNERSHIP COALITION ↗
- Who funds MENTOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MORTGAGE LENDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds Alpine School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FELINE FOSTER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Days For Girls International ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds SECOR ↗
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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Dwb Family Foundation · Ima Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Richey May Cares 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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