· Private foundation
The Griffin Foundation Inc
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k15 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $181,886 |
| UC HEALTH OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION | $40,622 |
| FORT COLLINS SYMPHONY | $12,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY - ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $5,087 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO - MUSIC DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| 3HOPEFUL HEARTS | $2,000 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- FCFort Collins Symphony Association3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +53%
- PHPATHWAYS HOSPICE2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +94%
- 3H3HOPEFUL HEARTS3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICEone grant, 2017 · $200k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $165k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The mission of larimer chorale, an auditioned symphonic chorus based in fort collins, colorado, is to perform choral music at a high artistic standard, with an emphasis on masterworks, and to enrich and educate singers and audiences…
To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.
The mission of the colorado children's chorale is to share professional choral music with the global community by training excellent young performers.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
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.
To provide compassionate, comprehensive, and accessible healthcare for individuals of all ages, fostering a healthier and brighter future for every child and adult in our community. Our vision is rooted in a commitment to providing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disabled Resource Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is High Performance Dance Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 51 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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fort Collins Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds 3HOPEFUL HEARTS ↗
- Who funds Off the Hook Arts ↗
- Who funds OPERA FORT COLLINS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · United Way of Larimer County · Fan Foundation · Northern Colorado United for Youth · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · Realities for Children Charities · Anschutz Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Denver 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 Griffin Foundation Inc 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.
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