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The Trio 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LC | $10,000 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENY | $10,000 |
| VINDEKET | $5,000 |
| RESPITE CARE | $5,000 |
| IWIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS | $5,000 |
| BIRD CONSERVANCY OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LARIMER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,495 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,995 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,957 |
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- HEHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM6× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue +35%
- TWTREES WATER AND PEOPLE4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +82%
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CLCACHE LA POUDRE MIDDLE SCHOOL DISTRone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MCMercy Corpsone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bas Bleu Theater Company. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 62 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 HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Family Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SILOE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds LIDE HAITI ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds VINDEKET ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND 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 · The Denver Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · Xcel Energy Foundation · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Trio 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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