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Standing Pines Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$8,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RALSTON HOUSE$25,000
CROSS PURPOSE$25,000
JUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER$15,000
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$8,800
ACEC COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
LINCOLN HILLS CARES$5,000
IMAGINE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%PACKS OF HOPE: $50k → 7%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $4k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $3k → 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.
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 8% of Standing Pines Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 84%.

Standing Pines 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$304k · 6 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$304k
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsArts & 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

  • JA
    JUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +29%
  • LH
    LINCOLN HILLS CARES
    5× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +435%
  • MH
    MILE HIGH MINISTRIES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NL
    NEW LIFE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -20%
  • PO
    Packs of Hope
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TW
    THE WILD LIFE SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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 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
2
Denver Rescue Mission

The denver rescue mission is changing lives in the name of christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.

Human Services
3
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
4
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
5
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

—
6
Colorado Uplift Inc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.

Education
7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

—
8
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
9
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
10
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
11
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.

—
12
Porchlight a Family Justice Center

To bring together essential services for victims, survivors and their children to create a positive pathway forward, and to foster public safety.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Miracles Therapeutic Riding Center. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTERPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherCENTERPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCHTHE WILD LIFE SANCTUARY: $50,000 · OtherTHE WILD LIFE SANCTUARYACEC COLORADO FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherACEC COLORADO FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $12,500 · OtherENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC: $8,800 · Other+5 more: $17,080 · Other+5 moreCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $90,998 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES F…JUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsJUSTICE AND …Packs of Hope: $50,000 · Human ServicesPacks of Ho…IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesIMAGINE FOU…MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $7,000 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH M…LINCOLN HILLS CARES: $60,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN HI…NEW LIFE MINISTRIES: $50,000 · ReligionRalston House: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURPOSE: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$255,380Philanthropy$90,998Recreation & Sports$70,000Human Services$67,000Arts & Culture$60,000Religion$50,000Community Improvement$50,000

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 budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $90,998 over 2y, 0.1% of 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
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…The Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…Gates Family Foundati…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationServant FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Standing Pines Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Standing Pines Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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.

    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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