· Private foundation
The Poudre Sand Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN LOMBARDI COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $27,500 |
| COLORADO DOULA PROJECT | $23,175 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FORT COLLINS | $22,878 |
| FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY | $17,767 |
| CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE | $15,435 |
| MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION DBA UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT | $15,317 |
| LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS | $11,439 |
| UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MATTHEWS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS FORT COLLINS | $9,750 |
| GAMBIA RISING CHARITABLE TRUST | $8,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL | $7,751 |
| DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES | $7,500 |
| ELEVATED ACCESS INC | $6,360 |
| REMOTE AREA MEDICAL | $5,324 |
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 (FY18–25, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +44%- FCFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +188%
- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer County8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LELOVELAND ELITEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JHJUDI'S HOUSE INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +3%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +36%
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
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…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
To eliminate hunger in boulder and broomfield counties through engagement, collaboration and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity and the most unlike its peers is Cold Case 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 20 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 45 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GAMBIARISING ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DOULA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elevated Access Inc ↗
- Who funds MONGOL ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds Noco Humane ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COLD CASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GROWING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FARMER VETERAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds PIONEER HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Anschutz Family Foundation · Sand Family Fund · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Blue Ocean Foundation · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust
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 Poudre Sand Fund 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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