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Standing Pines Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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63% of Standing Pines Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community First Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Standing Pines Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $94k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
4
’18
3
’19
1
’20
4
’21
3
’22
6
’23
1
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$8,800
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Standing Pines Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureReligionInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$94k63%
FY20225$82k40%
FY20216$125k67%
FY20201$5k0%
FY20193$65k33%
FY20184$82k50%
FY20174$70kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$207kPhilanthropy$91kHuman Services$85kCrime & Legal$70kYouth Development$60kAnimals$55kEducation$30kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Centerpoint Community Church$150,0003n/a
Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center$70,00071%
Lincoln Hills Cares$60,000512%
New Life Ministries$50,00011%
Packs of Hope$50,0001n/a
Ralston House$25,00011%
Crosspurpose$25,00010%
University of Denver$12,50010%
Imagine Foundation$10,00011%
Engineers Without Borders-Usainc$8,80010%
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All grantees of Standing Pines Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Centerpoint Community Church$150,0003n/a
Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center$70,00071%
Lincoln Hills Cares$60,000512%
New Life Ministries$50,00011%
Packs of Hope$50,0001n/a
Ralston House$25,00011%
Crosspurpose$25,00010%
University of Denver$12,50010%
Imagine Foundation$10,00011%
Engineers Without Borders-Usainc$8,80010%
Mile High Ministries$7,00020%
Imagine$5,0001n/a
Engineering Ministries International USA$4,00010%
Miracles Therapeutic Riding Center$3,00015%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Standing Pines Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJustice and Mercy Legal Aid Center: $70,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLincoln Hills Cares: $60,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetNew Life Ministries: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRalston House: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCrosspurpose: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImagine Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEngineers Without Borders-Usainc: $8,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMile High Ministries: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEngineering Ministries International USA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiracles Therapeutic Riding Center: $3,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 FoundationCO16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Standing Pines Foundation

How much does Standing Pines Foundation give?
Standing Pines Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $93,800 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Standing Pines Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Philanthropy (14%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Standing Pines Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Centerpoint Community Church ($150k), Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center ($70k), Lincoln Hills Cares ($60k).
Does Standing Pines Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Standing Pines Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Standing Pines Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is Standing Pines Foundation based?
Standing Pines Foundation is based in CO.

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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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