How much does The Poudre Sand Fund give?

The Poudre Sand Fund reported 26 grants totaling $231,815 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Poudre Sand Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Human Services (15%).

Who are The Poudre Sand Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($190k), Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity ($165k), The Food Bank for Larimer County ($157k).

Does The Poudre Sand Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Poudre Sand Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Poudre Sand Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION.

Where is The Poudre Sand Fund based?

The Poudre Sand Fund is based in PA.

The Poudre Sand Fund

The Poudre Sand Fund at a glance

· 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.

$232k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$493kFood & Nutrition$343kHuman Services$232kHousing & Shelter$198kInternational$101kCivil Rights$52kEnvironment$46kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $78k
$10k–50k9 grants · $154k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$1.4M · 27 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+8%

Still filing today

89%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalCivil RightsHealthOther

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

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
8× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +44%
FC
FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +188%
TF
The Food Bank for Larimer County
8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +35%

Funded once

LE
LOVELAND ELITE
one grant, 2022 · $25k
JH
JUDI'S HOUSE INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +3%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +36%

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.

Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

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

Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition

Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services

Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition

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

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Boulder Watershed Collective

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…

Environment

Metro Caring

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…

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Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Healthier Colorado

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…

Health

Community Food Share Inc

To eliminate hunger in boulder and broomfield counties through engagement, collaboration and leadership.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity; 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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

32/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$478,230Food & Nutrition$290,830Education$201,736Human Services$196,104Housing & Shelter$165,494International$108,145Health$108,040

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO29.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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