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Richey May Cares Foundation at a glance

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Richey May Cares Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$59kEducation$27kHuman Services$17kHealth$11kPhilanthropy$11kAnimals$5kYouth Development$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$899
Median grant
5
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WELLSPRING COMMUNITY$500
DOG RANCH RESCUE$500
A FRIEND OF JACK RESCUE$258
PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SLC$250
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%INTERLINC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $350 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $750 → 8%THE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $500 → 15%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $500 → 3%ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUMAN SERVICES: $250 → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 8%FACE TO FACE COLORADO: $250 → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%WISH OF A LIFETIME: $512 → 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

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of Richey May Cares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 78%.

Richey May Cares Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 19 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
68

Total granted

$103k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+17%

Still filing today

74%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • BR
    BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +720%
  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • DC
    DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AP
    A PRECIOUS CHILD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +4%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN FISHER HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
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
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
7
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

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…

Health
8
Food Bank of the Rockies

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

Food & Nutrition
9
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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10
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
11
Colorado Children's Campaign

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.…

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12
Patient Access Network Foundation

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 95 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
38/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSE OF HOPE: $16,101 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPEJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $13,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTCOLORADO MORTGAGE LENDERS ASSOCIATION: $2,750 · OtherCHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,154 · OtherMENTOR COLORADO: $4,000 · OtherMENTOR COLORADOOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $2,274 · Other+45 more: $23,306 · Other+45 moreBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $34,493 · Housing & ShelterBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INCCOLORADO HOMEOWNERSHIP COALITION: $4,120 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO HOMEOWNERSHIP COALIT…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,330 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERV…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $4,754 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS C…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $750 · Human Services+9 more: $3,362 · Human Services+9 moreCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $8,153 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO G…DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $4,338 · PhilanthropyDOUGLAS CO…LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $780 · PhilanthropyLITTLETON …MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $500 · PhilanthropyPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,750 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC: $1,000 · HealthHAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION: $781 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $768 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $760 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $730 · Health+7 more: $1,750 · HealthDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,541 · AnimalsCOLORADO FELINE FOSTER RESCUE: $1,021 · AnimalsDog Ranch Rescue Inc: $500 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN FRENCH BULLDOG RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsAMA Animal Rescue Incorporated: $500 · AnimalsA FRIEND OF JACK RESCUE: $258 · AnimalsGABRIEL FOUNDATION: $250 · AnimalsAlpine School District Foundation: $2,118 · EducationTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $794 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADO: $516 · EducationRATE FOUNDATION NFP: $500 · EducationNORTHEAST COONHOUND RESCUE INC: $500 · Education
Other$64,085Housing & Shelter$38,613Human Services$16,696Philanthropy$13,771Health$8,539Animals$4,570Education$4,428

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $34,493 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $8,153 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,330 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $4,754 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $4,338 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HOMEOWNERSHIP COALITION: $4,120 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO MORTGAGE LENDERS ASSOCIATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $2,274 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlpine School District Foundation: $2,118 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION MUSIC SCHOOL: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,541 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO FELINE FOSTER RESCUE: $1,021 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $794 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION: $781 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $780 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $768 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $730 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDays For Girls International: $526 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL MAINE: $525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOR: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $516 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWish of a Lifetime: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRATE FOUNDATION NFP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN FRENCH BULLDOG RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST COONHOUND RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES 4 THE SHOELESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMA Animal Rescue Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLINC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafer Foundation: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL STROKE ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $250 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.

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…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…The Janus Henderson F…Western Union Foundat…Mile High United Way …Dwb Family FoundationIma FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…Lumen Clarke M Willia…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Richey May Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richey May Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Richey May Cares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richey May Cares 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 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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