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Swanee Hunt Family Foundation at a glance

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Swanee Hunt 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.

$323k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$10MHuman Services$160kPhilanthropy$125kReligion$105kHousing & Shelter$65kEmployment$35kHealth$25kCivil Rights$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Denver Foundation$101,615
Project Worthmore$83,020
Commun$30,000
Project Helping$26,370
Children's Speech & Reading Center$20,000
Earthlinks$20,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
South Park Food Bank$10,000
LifeBridge Food Pantry$5,000
Mountain Resource Center$5,000
Women's Foundation of Colorado$1,500
Denver Preschool Program$1,370
Rocky Mountain Public Media$1,370
Latino Cultural Arts Center$1,370
Denver Center for Performing Arts$1,370
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, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Adolescent Consultation Services: $5k → 8%Project Worthmore: $83k → 8%South Park Food Bank: $10k → 8%Children's Speech & Reading Center: $20k → 11%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%Project Worthmore: $75k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $50k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%Ambassador Foundation: $370 → 12%Warren Village: $370 → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 10 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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11

Total granted

$10M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+30%

Still filing today

70%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • HA
    Hunt Alternatives
    6× · 2019–2024 · $9.8M · revenue +23% · 99% of their budget
  • PW
    PROJECT WORTHMORE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $208k · revenue +48%
  • TD
    THE DENVER WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CI
    COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +231%
  • CH
    CENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +280%
  • BE
    BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +46%
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 Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
2
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
3
Denverworks Inc

To empower the unemployed and those with barriers to employment to become self-supporting through job preparation and placement.

Employment
4
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
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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7
Colorado Village Collaborative

Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…

Housing & Shelter
8
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…

Arts & Culture
9
Goodwill Industries of Denver

Goodwill's mission is to provide education, career development, and employment opportunities to help coloradans in need achieve self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope through the power of work.

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10
Metro Caring

Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…

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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
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foundation Music School. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 39 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
16/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hunt Alternatives: $9,838,432 · EducationHunt Alternatives+1 more: $150,000 · EducationPROJECT WORTHMORE: $208,020 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSouth Park Food Bank: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,240 · Human ServicesTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $226,615 · PhilanthropyCAPITOL HEIGHTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $105,000 · OtherCommun: $30,000 · OtherCENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES: $20,000 · OtherAMARNA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherSt Francis Center: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherEGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $20,000 · OtherFOUNDATION MUSIC SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherBAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC: $15,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $29,790 · OtherANGELICA VILLAGE: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterProject Helping: $51,370 · HealthEARTHLINKS INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · Community ImprovementGROUNDWORK DENVER INC: $1,272 · Community Improvement
Education$9,988,432Human Services$260,260Philanthropy$226,615Other$291,790Housing & Shelter$55,000Health$51,370Community Improvement$36,272

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 budgetHunt Alternatives: $9,838,432 over 6y, 99% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $226,615 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE: $208,020 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DENVER WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetANGELICA VILLAGE: $55,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetProject Helping: $51,370 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Francis Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Park Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION MUSIC SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING CENT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC DENVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $1,370 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK DENVER INC: $1,272 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $370 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…The Women's Foundatio…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Xcel Energy FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Caring for Colorado F…The Colorado TrustThe Marigold ProjectHill Foundation Wells…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · The Marigold Project · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get 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
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Swanee Hunt Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Swanee Hunt 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 39 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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