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The Ginder Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ginder Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$126k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$414kHealth$236kPhilanthropy$179kCivil Rights$155kFood & Nutrition$70kInternational$20kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $121k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Hospital Colorado Founda$40,500
Make the Road New York$30,000
SAGE$30,000
CITY OF HOPE$20,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF OC: $58k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $20k → 14%SAGE: $30k → 17%Make the Road New York: $40k → 20%PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 5%Children's Hospital Colorado Founda: $48k → 10%Denver Zoological Foundation: $3k → 12%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%Food Bank of Northern Nevada: $10k → 7%Northern Nevada International Cente: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF OC: $51k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $20k → 14%SAGE: $30k → 17%Make the Road New York: $30k → 20%PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%Children's Hospital Colorado Founda: $41k → 10%Denver Dumb Friends League: $5k → 12%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%Food Bank of Northern Nevada: $10k → 7%Northern Nevada International Cente: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF OC: $33k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $20k → 14%SAGE: $20k → 17%Make the Road New York: $30k → 20%THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE: $3k → 5%Children's Hospital Colorado Founda: $40k → 10%Denver Dumb Friends League: $3k → 12%Northern Nevada International Cente: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF OC: $32k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $20k → 14%SAGE: $20k → 17%Make the Road New York: $20k → 20%United States Ski Team Foundation: $2k → 5%Children's Hospital Colorado Founda: $35k → 10%The Lovve Project: $10k → 12%New Reno Little Theater: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF OC: $30k → 10%SAGE: $15k → 17%Make the Road New York: $20k → 20%Children's Hospital Colorado Founda: $35k → 10%Food Bank of the Rockies: $40k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF OC: $30k → 10%Services Advocacy for LGBTQ Seniors: $15k → 17%Make the Road New York: $15k → 20%Children's Hospital Colorado Founda: $28k → 10%Hoag Charity Sports: $5k → 10%The Arab-American Family Support Ce: $30k → 20%The Arab-American Family Support Ce: $15k → 20%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 10 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$912k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+47%

Still filing today

80%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureAnimalsCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $234k · revenue +101%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    6× · 2018–2023 · $226k · revenue +37%
  • SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +23%
  • SA
    Services Advocacy for LGBTQ Seniors
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • TL
    THE LOVVE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +40%
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
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
2
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
5
Colorado Public Television

Pbs12 colorado is re-imagining how public media can serve the community. content: creating unique, local content that shares stories and viewpoints that might otherwise be lost. education: preparing the next generation of content creators…

Arts & Culture
6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
8
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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11
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
12
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Denver Zoological 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

17 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. 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $234,292 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTYSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $115,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TR…CITY OF HOPE: $80,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEThe Arab-American Family Support Ce: $45,000 · OtherThe Arab-American Family Support CeNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $225,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colo…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthMake the Road New York: $155,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road N…PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $99,000 · PhilanthropyPARK CITY …FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $40,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionTHE LOVVE PROJECT: $10,000 · Food & NutritionDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $7,500 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · AnimalsNew Reno Little Theater: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePark City Performances: $3,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$514,292Health$240,500Crime & Legal$155,000Philanthropy$99,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Animals$10,000Arts & Culture$8,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $234,292 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $225,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMake the Road New York: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $99,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVVE PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CALL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOAG CHARITY SPORTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Reno Little Theater: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPark City Performances: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Ginder Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ginder 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.

    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 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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