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The Armstrong 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.

$291k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$105,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Armstrong Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
EducationCivil RightsInternationalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving19$291k16%
FY202420$610k10%
FY202322$320k23%
FY202218$1.0M17%
FY202126$1.5M46%
FY20205$40k0%
FY201917$263k47%
FY201813$262k31%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.0MReligion$351kInternational$287kCivil Rights$189kPublic Benefit$187kHuman Services$135kCommunity Improvement$101kFood & Nutrition$49kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
SD
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Armstrong Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColorado Christian University: $2,834,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMomentum Global Inc: $272,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetDare 2 Share Ministries: $190,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAsOne Ministries: $125,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNational Taxpayers Union Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $74,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Denver Institute: $72,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $62,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetReligious Freedom Institute Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWoodson Center: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Gloucester Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetVivoblu Water for All: $49,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAmbleside School: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Program of the Rockies: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBreakthrough Leadership Group Inc: $30,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe King's College: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal DMM: $25,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetStep Denver: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLion Global Foundation: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Jay Institute for Faith Society and Law Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetIndependence Institute: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for American Innovation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens for Self-Governance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Institute for Labor Relations Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Cornerstone Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Opportunity Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Sense Institute: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetParents Challenge: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTommy Spaulding Leadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdify: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Youth Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 36.

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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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO23.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Daniels Fund · Donors Trust Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Bruce Benson Foundation · Considine Family Foundation · Tyl Foundation

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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How do I get to The Armstrong Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Armstrong 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.

About The Armstrong Family Foundation

How much does The Armstrong Family Foundation give?
The Armstrong Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $291,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Armstrong Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (8%), International (7%).
Who are The Armstrong Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado Christian University ($2.8M), Momentum Global Inc ($272k), Dare 2 Share Ministries ($190k).
Does The Armstrong Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Armstrong Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Armstrong Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Adolph Coors Foundation, Daniels Fund.
Where is The Armstrong Family Foundation based?
The Armstrong Family 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 48 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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