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The Taking Flight Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$89k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$245kHealth$89kEducation$80kAnimals$44kPhilanthropy$40kEnvironment$23kReligion$21kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC$35,000
BIRDS OF PREY FOUNDATION$15,000
CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SERVICES$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CO$7,770
ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF STAR VALLEY INC$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE BRIDGER-TETON$5,000
AEROANGEL INCORPORATED$1,500
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 (FY17–24, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%LIFT UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $500 → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 → 9%WISH FOR WHEELS: $5k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $3k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $2k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $35k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $30k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $5k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $2k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$476k · 27 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
27

Total granted

$476k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+16%

Still filing today

81%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • EF
    EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $187k · revenue +112%
  • TB
    THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +111%
  • AD
    ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $26k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • HL
    HILLSIDE LEARNING CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +55%
  • CF
    COLLINGS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • MF
    Metro Food Rescue
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%

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
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
2
Boulder Carshare

To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.

Environment
3
Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

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4
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
5
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
6
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
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
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
9
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
10
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
11
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra

The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County and the most unlike its peers is Aish Hatorah Detroit. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Jewish Community Organizati…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,365

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

50 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. 50 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $186,500 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $11,000 · Human Services+4 more — $15,000 · Human Services+4 moreBirds of Prey Foundation — $25,000 · OtherBirds of Prey FoundationCOLLINGS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherCOLLINGS FOUNDATION INCMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $10,500 · OtherMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL F…CONGREGATION HAR HASHEM — $8,080 · OtherBOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC — $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE BRIDGER-TETON — $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE BRIDGER-TETONPARTNERS IN ACTION INC — $14,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN ACTION INCCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $9,000 · OtherMetro Food Rescue — $10,000 · OtherMetro Food RescueGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES — $10,000 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIE…+21 more — $46,400 · Other+21 moreAEROANGEL INC — $25,000 · HealthAEROANGEL INCCIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC — $20,000 · HealthCIRCLE OF HOPE…ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $15,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT W…Star Valley Medical Center Charitable Foundation — $10,000 · HealthStar Valley Me…KEEP A CHILD ALIVE INC — $10,000 · HealthKEEP A CHILD A…+1 more — $500 · HealthALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION — $25,500 · EducationALEXANDER DA…HILLSIDE LEARNING CENTER — $20,000 · EducationHILLSIDE LEA…REGIS UNIVERSITY — $17,500 · EducationREGIS UNIVER…I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County — $5,000 · EducationI Have A Dre…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS — $10,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $7,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $700 · Arts & CultureTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,770 · AnimalsANIMAL HUMANE ASSOC OF STAR VALLEY — $5,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER — $750 · Animals
Human Services$247,500Other$168,980Health$80,500Education$69,000Philanthropy$25,000Arts & Culture$18,700Animals$18,520

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $186,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION — $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAEROANGEL INC — $25,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetBirds of Prey Foundation — $25,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHILLSIDE LEARNING CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRIDGER-TETON — $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN ACTION INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS — $10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetro Food Rescue — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetStar Valley Medical Center Charitable Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES — $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKEEP A CHILD ALIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWish for Wheels Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOC OF STAR VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlpine EMS Inc — $2,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStar Valley Search and Rescue — $2,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYCLISTS 4 COMMUNITY — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetE TOWN — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKADIMA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAISH HATORAH DETROIT — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLift Up of Routt County — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationAmg Charitable Gift F…Xcel Energy FoundationMadeleine H and Mande…Rose Community Founda…Louis P Singer Fund I…Emsa Fund IncMile High United Way …The Wolf Family Found…Collins Foundation
Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO35.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Louis P Singer Fund Inc · Emsa Fund Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · The Wolf Family Foundation · Collins 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 Taking Flight Foundation 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 · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 The Taking Flight Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Taking Flight 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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