· Private foundation
The Dean 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Dean Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Weld Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Dean Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $95k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $79,100 |
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $2,955 |
| UNC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY | $2,200 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| GREELEY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NCMC FOUNDATION | $550 |
| WELD FOOD BANK | $500 |
| LONGS PEAK BOY SCOUTS COUNCIL | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF A WOMAN PLACE | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $400 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $240 |
| WOMEN 2 WOMEN | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +68%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +149%
- GSGREELEY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PLPOUDRE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION Ione grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -45%
- PLPOUDRE LEARNING CENTER ENDOWMENTone grant, 2019 · $1k
- CRCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADOgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100 · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Support of western wyoming community college programs and scholarships
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To support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Weld Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Women to Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREELEY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN TO WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds POUDRE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION I ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Tointon Family Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Weld Trust · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · The Denver Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Dean Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.