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T & R Birdsong Fund at a glance

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T & R Birdsong Fund

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$348kPhilanthropy$22kRecreation & Sports$19kFood & Nutrition$8kHealth$8kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$3kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$271k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2LIV4 FOUNDATION$5,000
FOOD BANK OF ROCKIES$2,500
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES$2,000
MAX FUND$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 (FY18–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUNDATION: $500 → 7%DEVELOPMENT DISABILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 7%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$385k · 6 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$385k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+136%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $333k · revenue +79%
  • CG
    COLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $9k · revenue +171%
  • RO
    REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO
    3× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • SH
    SOBRIETY HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +116%
  • CT
    CURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -21%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
2
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
3
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
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
5
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
6
Community Radio for Northern Colorado

Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…

Arts & Culture
7
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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8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
9
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
10
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
11
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Sobriety House 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $332,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION+1 more: $3,000 · Education2LIV4 FOUNDATION: $19,250 · Other2LIV4 FOUNDAT…CAMP WAPIYAPI: $8,750 · OtherCAMP WAPIYAPIFOOD BANK OF ROCKIES: $8,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF …REACH OUT AND READ: $2,500 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherFRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES: $2,000 · OtherTAIMEN FUNDTRIBUTARY FUND: $2,000 · Other+6 more: $2,900 · Other+6 moreCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsWAPIYAPI: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $200 · Arts & CultureSOBRIETY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · HealthDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 · Human Services
Education$335,500Other$47,900Recreation & Sports$10,500Youth Development$7,500Arts & Culture$5,200Health$5,000Human Services$5,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $332,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAPIYAPI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $200 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…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationAmg Charitable Gift F…Xcel Energy FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 T & R Birdsong Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T & R Birdsong Fund. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 24 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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