· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $79,100 |
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $2,955 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY | $2,200 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| GREELEY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NCMC FOUNDATION | $550 |
| LONGS PEAK BOY SCOUTS COUNCIL | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF A WOMAN PLACE | $500 |
| WELD FOOD BANK | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $400 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $240 |
| WOMEN 2 WOMEN | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +336%
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%
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.
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.
Weld legacy foundation awards grants related to health and education to nonprofits, schools and government entities to enhance the lives of weld county residents.
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Western colorado community foundation amplifies the generosity in our communities by providing leadership, connections, and resources to meet the ever-evolving needs of our western colorado home.
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Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.
Support of western wyoming community college programs and scholarships
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To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
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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.
Advancing student success through partnerships with the community and Sheridan College.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dean Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dean Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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