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RJ Clark Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$23k
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.

Human Services$1.4MYouth Development$368kHealth$260kFood & Nutrition$145kRecreation & Sports$99kEducation$97kInternational$12kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $127k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver$22,500
Parker Task Force$16,500
Partners Mentoring Youth$15,000
The Childrens Hospital Foundation$12,500
Infinite Hero Foundation$10,000
Judis House$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Project Sol Flower$10,000
Book Trust$10,000
Harmony Acres Equestrian Center$10,000
Delta Montrose Youth Services$5,000
Food for Thought Denver$5,000
American Cancer Society$1,500
Buddy Up For Life$1,500
Affinity Ranch Promise Ranch$1,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%A Precious Child: $20k → 5%Delta Montrose Youth Services Inc: $5k → 12%A Precious Child: $10k → 5%Tri Lakes Cares: $2k → 9%Delta Montrose Youth Services: $5k → 12%Thrive Center: $10k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs of America: $500 → 8%Denver Rescue Mission: $3k → 12%Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation: $2k → 12%Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation: $500 → 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

WA
MA
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
GA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 27 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
33

Total granted

$2.3M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

74%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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

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HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • JH
    JUDI'S HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +42%
  • LC
    LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TC
    Thrive Center
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -69%
  • WS
    Western Slope Center For Children
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • SS
    SAMMIES SUNSHINE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -35%
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.

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Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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2
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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3
Friends of the Children - Colorado

Friends of the Children - Colorado has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
4
Tennyson Center for Children At Colorado Christian Home

Tennyson center for children (tcc) is dedicated to helping children who have experienced severe abuse, neglect, and/or trauma so they can bravely, and safely, change their life's story. tcc's trained professionals empower children and…

Human Services
5
Denver Area Youth Services

To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.

Human Services
6
Family Voices Colorado Inc

Making colorado a better place for children and youth with special healthcare needs.

Human Services
7
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
8
StableStrides

To significantly improve the wellbeing of individuals through a connection with horses.

Religion
9
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.

Human Services
10
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
11
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
12
Arc of West Central Colorado

The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Drifters Hearts of Hope Inc. 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

49 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. 49 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
22/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUDI'S HOUSE INC: $1,090,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INCHARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $19,500 · PhilanthropyTennyson Center for Children: $193,397 · OtherTennyson Center for ChildrenBoys Girls Club of Metro Denver: $156,988 · OtherBoys Girls Club of Metro Denve…Parker Task Force: $134,000 · OtherParker Task ForceBoys Girls Club of Larimer County: $33,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $22,500 · OtherCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC: $22,500 · Other+28 more: $82,000 · Other+28 moreChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $137,000 · HealthPROJECT SOL FLOWER: $20,000 · Health+7 more: $9,000 · HealthBOOK TRUST: $91,500 · EducationPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY: $30,000 · EducationFood For Thought Denver: $10,000 · EducationYampa Valley Autism Program: $70,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesThrive Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesLARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH: $108,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,159,500Other$644,885Health$166,000Education$131,500Human Services$128,000Youth Development$113,000Recreation & Sports$25,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $1,090,000 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $137,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH: $108,500 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $91,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYampa Valley Autism Program: $70,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $50,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT SOL FLOWER: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetINFINITE HERO FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThrive Center: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWestern Slope Center For Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAMMIES SUNSHINE: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPraying Hands Ranches Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDrifters Hearts of Hope Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWATER FOR PEOPLE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED VALLEY HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetART FEEDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINVISIBLE DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS AGAINST HUNGER COLORADO FEEDING KIDS: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $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…Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationAv Hunter Trust Incor…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…The Denver Children's…Rocky Mountain Health…Community Foundation …Otter Cares Foundatio…Xcel Energy FoundationRealities for Childre…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO44.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Xcel Energy Foundation · Realities for Children Charities

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 RJ Clark Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from RJ Clark Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    18report 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 RJ Clark Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to RJ Clark Family 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 65 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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