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Richmond American Foundation

As we look to the future, we are committed to lending a helping hand to those in need, embracing a diverse culture and working toward sustainability.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

International$6.1MHealth$4.0MArts & Culture$3.8MPhilanthropy$1.6MEducation$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.3MEnvironment$490kYouth Development$347kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $629k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $874k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIS UNIVERSITY$500,000
LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION$470,000
THE DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$400,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$220,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$200,000
THE WINNING TEAM FOUNDATION$100,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$100,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION$53,500
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA$50,000
DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS$36,000
UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION$26,000
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Commit Foundation: $10k → 10%The Chosen and Dearly Loved Foundation: $10k → 15%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%HOUSING TRUST FUND OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $9k → 6%The Commit Foundation: $10k → 10%HomeAid Orlando: $6k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $18k → 12%Robert E Loup Jewish Community Center: $18k → 12%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $18k → 14%Robert E Loup Jewish Community Center: $18k → 12%Robert E Loup Jewish Community Center: $18k → 12%Robert E Loup Jewish Community Center: $18k → 12%Jewish Family Services of Colorado: $30k → 12%The Chosen & Dearly Loved: $10k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $36k → 12%Mercy Housing Mountain Plains: $25k → 12%Mercy Housing Mountain Plains: $25k → 12%Denver Police Foundation: $35k → 12%Denver Police Foundation: $35k → 12%Denver Police Foundation: $25k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
IL
NY
NV
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 60 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
28

Total granted

$16M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $905k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +3%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $890k · revenue +13%
  • DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +27%
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +52%
  • DP
    Denver Post Community Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
3
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
11
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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12
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hmong Memorial Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Cancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…School District FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Construc…Community Arts CentersYouth Development CentersChristian Youth CampsYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr17%51%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr13%15%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/116
the rest of the field
13%
4,365/33,301

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.

04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
70/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $8,470,000 · Arts & CultureLION GLOBAL FOUNDATIONDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $370,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $1,132,500 · Arts & Culture+12 moreSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,525,000 · HealthSAINT JOSEPH HOSPIT…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $890,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEA…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $274,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital…GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Health+18 more — $607,500 · Health+18 moreThe Greenway Foundation Inc — $450,000 · OtherThe Greenway Fou…DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $240,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AN…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $210,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE U…Denver Post Community Foundation — $200,000 · OtherDenver Post Comm…HUNTINGTONS DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $150,000 · OtherOFFICE FOR MISSION ADVANCEMENT OF DOMINICANS PROVINCE OF ST ALBERT — $150,000 · OtherAmp the Cause — $110,000 · OtherRPA CARES — $100,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE FALLEN HEROES MEMORIAL FUND INC — $267,560 · OtherTHE FALLEN HEROE…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $100,000 · Other+33 more — $817,867 · Other+33 moreDENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $800,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $250,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation — $130,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+7 more — $133,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $1,010,000 · Recreation & SportsCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY — $85,000 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $61,000 · Recreation & SportsREGIS UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $298,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Education+3 more — $56,500 · EducationDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $90,000 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS — $86,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $18,000 · Human Services+4 more — $30,455 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$9,972,500Health$3,421,500Other$2,895,427Philanthropy$1,463,000Recreation & Sports$1,206,000Education$914,500Human Services$414,455

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $8,470,000 over 5y, 63% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,525,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $1,010,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $890,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Greenway Foundation Inc — $450,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $370,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $298,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $274,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FALLEN HEROES MEMORIAL FUND INC — $267,560 over 2y, 100% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $240,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $180,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $130,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGOVERNORS RESIDENCE PRESERVATION FUND — $120,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetAmp the Cause — $110,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $92,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER RUSTLERS INC — $86,867 over 5y, 14% of budgetMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS — $86,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY — $85,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum — $62,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHERRY ARTS — $50,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan Counseling Center — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOPERA COLORADO — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRedline — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationBoettcher FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…The Colorado Health F…Western Union Foundat…El Pomar FoundationPema Foundation IncDaniels FundLibertygives Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO59.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Western Union Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pema Foundation Inc · Daniels Fund · Libertygives 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 Richmond American 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    30report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Richmond American Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Richmond American 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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