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Taddonio Family Foundation at a glance

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Taddonio Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$83k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$610kEducation$161kFood & Nutrition$32kHousing & Shelter$11kHealth$9kPhilanthropy$8kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$438k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DENVER$82,766
DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$10,000
VINDEKET$10,000
KENZI'S CAUSES$7,800
COLORADO GIVESORG$5,200
GRACEFULL FOUNDATION$3,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
TRIXIES TRIBE$2,000
DENVER KIDS INC$1,000
FITZGERALD PETERSEN COMMUNICATIONS INC$1,000
YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT$1,000
ITALIANS OF AMERICA$600
Individual grant recipient$200
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 (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WECYCLE: $5k → 7%WeCycle: $2k → 7%KENZI'S CAUSES: $8k → 8%Kenzi's causes: $3k → 8%Laradon Hall Society for Exceptional Children and Adults: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
OK
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$718k · 14 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
22

Total granted

$718k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DC
    DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +32%
  • WI
    WEDONTWASTE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +34%
  • V
    VINDEKET
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • C
    COBIZBANK
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • CI
    COTTONWOOD INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +107%
  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
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 Health Institute
Health
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
4
Denver Kiwanis Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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6
Alexander Dawson Foundation

The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…

Education
7
Slow Food Co-Denver

To create dramatic and lasting change in the food system by reconnecting americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Denver Children's Foundation

The denver children's foundation (fka denver active 20/30 children's foundation) engages young professionals in their 20's and 30's on a philanthropic mission of raising money for various children's charities in our community. through…

Human Services
9
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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10
Nourish Colorado

Nourish colorado is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to strengthening connections between farms and communities so that all coloradans have equitable access to fresh, nutritious foods. we pursue systemic changes through state…

Health
11
International School of Denver

Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.

Education
12
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Section Ift. 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

27 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. 27 of the 44 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ronald McDonald House Charities: $495,480 · OtherRonald McDonald House Charities+25 more: $61,845 · Other+25 moreDENVER ACADEMY INC: $70,450 · EducationDENVER ACADEMY INCDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $60,000 · EducationDENVER CHRISTIAN S…DENVER KIDS INC: $6,559 · Education+1 more: $1,250 · EducationRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC: $82,766 · HealthRONALD MCDO…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 · HealthChildren's …+2 more: $1,000 · HealthWEDONTWASTE INC: $11,517 · Food & NutritionVINDEKET: $11,000 · Food & NutritionDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $11,200 · Human ServicesWE-CYCLE: $6,700 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $11,500 · EnvironmentCOTTONWOOD INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EnvironmentYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT: $8,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$557,325Education$138,259Health$88,766Food & Nutrition$24,017Human Services$18,400Environment$16,500Crime & Legal$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC: $82,766 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDENVER ACADEMY INC: $70,450 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $11,517 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $11,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVINDEKET: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRACEFULL FOUNDATION: $10,562 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT: $8,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWE-CYCLE: $6,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $6,559 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBANDIMERE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $1,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARUSO FAMILY CHARITIES: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetITALIANS OF AMERICA: $600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROMITO FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLARADON HALL SOCIETY FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $500 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…Mile High United Way …The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationRose Community Founda…The Morgridge Family …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO27.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Morgridge Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Taddonio Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Taddonio Family 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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