· Private foundation
The Galena Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $900k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER ACADEMY | $1,025,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000,421 |
| CU CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH RESEARCH | $1,000,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LARIMER COUNTY | $1,000,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE | $200,000 |
| ABOUT FACE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| TALL TALES RANCH | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE PUEBLO | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ELIZABETHTON | $50,000 |
| HEIMERDINGER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +90% · 58% of their budget
- DADENVER ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
- CHCraig Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $8.0M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- UAUSC AT BEAUFORT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M
- CFCSU FOSTERING SUCCESS PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- CFCSM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $500k
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.
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The arc of colorado provides individual and systems change advocacy for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) residing in colorado and their families.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation No Colorado and the most unlike its peers is About Face Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 70 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds ABOUT FACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boots on the Court Inc ↗
- Who funds BONDS OF UNION ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLYING MANES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HAVERN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Jk Mullen Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community 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 Galena 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.
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.