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Ray Lanyon Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$41kEducation$28kCrime & Legal$25kHealth$24kHousing & Shelter$15kFood & Nutrition$13kArts & Culture$4kEnvironment$3kPublic Benefit$2kOther$80k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT$9,000
ST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
RISE AGAINST SUICIDE$5,000
TRU COMMUNITY CARE$5,000
INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES$5,000
COLORADO FRIENDSHIP$5,000
LONGMONT ENDING VIOLENCE INITIATIVE$4,000
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER -$4,000
CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES$3,000
CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCY PROGRAM$3,000
FIRST CONGREGRETIONAL UCC LONGMONT$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $4k → 7%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 10%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $4k → 7%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $2k → 9%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 10%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE LONGMONT SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 12%TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $5k → 12%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER -: $4k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $5k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 12%CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$117k · 11 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
26

Total granted

$117k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+9%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +7%
  • EC
    EL COMITE DE LONGMONT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • LM
    LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +10%
  • TI
    THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +154%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Longmont Concert Band

The Longmont Concert Band is a nonprofit organization composed of volunteer musicians from the surrounding community. Our goals are to provide quality concert band music to the general public, to provide a fun and invigorating atmosphere…

Arts & Culture
2
Longmont Economic Development Partnership

Providing information and services to existing and prospective businesses and industries.

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3
Colorado Health Institute
Health
4
Integrated Community

Integrated Community (CIIC) is an educational and a human service organization dedicated to supporting immigrant families integrate to the way of life in our community by gaining greater linguistic and cultural competency.

Human Services
5
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
6
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…

Arts & Culture
7
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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8
Longmont Christian School

Provide quality christian education built on a firm foundation of biblical truths and academic excellence to prepare our students for successful christian living

Education
9
El Centro Amistad

Create opportunities and programs that promote health equity education and quality of life for the latino community in boulder county in colorado.

Human Services
10
Boulder Chorale

To enrich and inspire a broad community through music.

Arts & Culture
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Cafe Longmont and the most unlike its peers is Rise Against Suicide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr17%11%5–10yr23%19%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr8%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr17%7%5–10yr23%19%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr8%21%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
303/2,304

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EL COMITE DE LONGMONT — $12,000 · OtherEL COMITE DE LONGMONTLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $12,000 · OtherLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INCLONGMONT ENDING VIOLENCE INITIATIVE — $8,000 · OtherLONGMONT ENDING VIOLENCE INITIATIVEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY — $7,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEYLONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $7,115 · OtherLONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCLEAF LYONS EMERGENCY AND ASSISTANCE — $5,000 · OtherLEAF LYONS EMERGENCY AND ASSISTANCEINTERCAMBIO — $4,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGRETIONAL UCC LONGMONT — $3,000 · OtherGROWING GARDEN OF BOULDER COUNTY — $3,000 · OtherSILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL — $3,000 · OtherLONGMONT YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $3,000 · OtherGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY — $3,000 · Other+9 more — $13,000 · Other+9 moreDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER — $12,000 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL DISABI…THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR PEOPL…INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $10,000 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE COMUN…TRU COMMUNITY CARE — $5,000 · Human ServicesTRU COMMUNITY CARECOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,200 · Human ServicesTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 · EducationTINY TIM CENT…WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $7,500 · EducationWILD PLUM CEN…LONGMONT HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS BOOSTERS — $4,000 · EducationLONGMONT HIGH…TEACHING PEACE INC — $4,000 · EducationTEACHING PEAC…INTEGRAL STEPS INC — $2,000 · EducationINTEGRAL STEP…CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $22,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD AND F…THE REENTRY INITIATIVE — $2,500 · Crime & LegalTHE REENTRY…Rise Against Suicide — $10,000 · HealthRise Agains…RECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT — $9,000 · HealthRECOVERY CA…DENTAL AID — $5,000 · HealthDENTAL AIDTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBoulder Community Housing Corporation Inc — $4,500 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC — $13,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$88,615Human Services$41,200Education$27,500Crime & Legal$24,500Health$24,000Housing & Shelter$14,500Food & Nutrition$13,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $22,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC — $13,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEL COMITE DE LONGMONT — $12,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRise Against Suicide — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $7,115 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDENTAL AID — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoulder Community Housing Corporation Inc — $4,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLONGMONT HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS BOOSTERS — $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTEACHING PEACE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLONGMONT YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE REENTRY INITIATIVE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA BOULDER COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOAL CREEK ADULT EDUCATION CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINTEGRAL STEPS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe St Vrain Historical Society Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Longmont Senior Center — $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGMONT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLONGMONT CHORALE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Longmont Communit…Lynn & Helen N Clark …Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Collins FoundationThe Denver FoundationAEC TrustBraly Family Foundati…Mile High United Way …The Edmund T & Eleano…Rose Community Founda…
The Longmont Community FoundationCO61.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Longmont Community Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · Collins Foundation · The Denver Foundation · AEC Trust · Braly Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick Foundation · Rose Community 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 Ray Lanyon 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ray Lanyon Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Ray Lanyon Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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