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The Galena Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$18MEducation$16MYouth Development$10MHuman Services$7.3MReligion$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.7MPublic Benefit$950kFood & Nutrition$455kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $900k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.3M
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER ACADEMY$1,025,000
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000,421
CU CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH RESEARCH$1,000,000
CRAIG HOSPITAL$1,000,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LARIMER COUNTY$1,000,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
JUDI'S HOUSE$200,000
ABOUT FACE FOUNDATION$125,000
CHILDREN OF THE PUEBLO$100,000
SEEDS OF HOPE$100,000
TALL TALES RANCH$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ELIZABETHTON$50,000
BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRY$50,000
HEIMERDINGER FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%BONDS OF UNION: $25k → 16%CHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY FOUNDATION: $52k → 8%CASTLE ROCK PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 3%BONDS OF UNION: $25k → 16%CHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%BONDS OF UNION: $25k → 16%BONDS OF UNION: $25k → 16%BONDS OF UNION: $25k → 16%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFILED COUNTIES: $25k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $30k → 8%ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $25k → 8%RAISE THE FUTURE: $25k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $25k → 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

AK
IL
NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
SC
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54M · 41 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
25

Total granted

$54M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+23%

Still filing today

61%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +90% · 58% of their budget
  • DA
    DENVER ACADEMY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
  • CH
    Craig Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.0M · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • UA
    USC AT BEAUFORT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M
  • CF
    CSU FOSTERING SUCCESS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CF
    CSM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
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
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
4
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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5
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

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,…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Colorado Health Institute
Health
7
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
8
Impact Development Fund

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
10
The Arc of Colorado

The arc of colorado provides individual and systems change advocacy for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) residing in colorado and their families.

Human Services
11
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
12
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation No Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 70 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER ACADEMY INC: $8,089,614 · EducationDENVER ACADEMY INCCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,050,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FO…+4 more: $374,600 · EducationCU CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH RESEARCH: $8,250,000 · OtherCU CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH …USC AT BEAUFORT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherUSC AT BEAUFORT COMMUNITY FO…CSU FOSTERING SUCCESS PROGRAM: $1,000,000 · OtherCSU FOSTERING SUCCESS PROGRA…SEEDS OF HOPE: $780,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $525,000 · OtherCSM FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Other+42 more: $2,825,250 · Other+42 moreCraig Hospital: $8,014,812 · HealthCraig HospitalCraig Hospital Foundation: $1,055,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Foun…TALL TALES RANCH: $505,000 · HealthThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $450,000 · Health+6 more: $190,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $10,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS …JUDI'S HOUSE INC: $6,172,254 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE …ABOUT FACE FOUNDATION: $460,000 · PhilanthropyABOUT FACE FO…+1 more: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO: $1,000,421 · ReligionASPIRE SCHOLARSHIP: $950,000 · Public Benefit
Education$14,514,214Other$14,880,250Health$10,214,812Youth Development$10,000,000Philanthropy$6,782,254Religion$1,000,421Public Benefit$950,000

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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $10,000,000 over 9y, 58% of budgetDENVER ACADEMY INC: $8,089,614 over 9y, 27% of budgetCraig Hospital: $8,014,812 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $6,172,254 over 8y, 36% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,050,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $1,055,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetASPIRE SCHOLARSHIP: $950,000 over 9y, 94% of budgetTALL TALES RANCH: $505,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetABOUT FACE FOUNDATION: $460,000 over 8y, 53% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $450,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetStep Denver: $250,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $160,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBoots on the Court Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 94% of budgetBONDS OF UNION: $125,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGRACE FISHER FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetARAPAHOE HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $99,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY FOUNDATION: $87,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFLYING MANES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $75,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $52,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HAVEN: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASTLE ROCK PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTE: $25,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIDITAROD TRAIL RACE FOUNDATION: $14,250 over 1y, 36% of budgetLISTEN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORWOOD PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 GRACE FISHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…The Denver FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Daniels FundThe Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Jk Mullen FoundationNathan B & Florence R…Caring for Colorado F…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Anschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO30.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Galena Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Galena Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 70 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home