· Private foundation
Robert E Ringdahl Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE-A-WISH ARIZONA INC | $30,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $27,500 |
| 1N10 INC | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LONGMONT POLICE K9 ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CENTER ON COLFAX | $10,000 |
| CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA | $10,000 |
| LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH COLORADO CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| ASPEN RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOULDER POLICE FOUNDATIONK9 UNIT | $7,500 |
| WAFER FOOD PANTRY | $7,500 |
| LA CROSSE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| LA CROSSE AUTISM FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- HHHORSES HELP FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +47%
- LHLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +41%
- CTCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
- WFWTC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AFArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundationone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
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.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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…
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.
Animal shelter, spay & neuter, humane treatment of animals.
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.
To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
The purposes of the organization are to promote awareness and understanding by the general public, to educate and support people with lupus and their families, and to encourage research to discover the causes and cure of systemic lupus…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Hog Haven Farm. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 71 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 HORSES HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Aspen Ridge Preparatory School ↗
- Who funds 1N10 INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds HOG HAVEN FARM ↗
- Who funds WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER ↗
- Who funds QUEER ASTERISK ↗
- Who funds Lilys Pad ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA'S LEGACY ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds RARE SISTERS BATTEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Horsfall Family Foundation · Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust
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 Robert E Ringdahl Foundation Inc 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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