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The Vance R and Colleen H Andrus Family Foundation Aka the Indigo Oak 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.

$624k
Granted FY2025still arriving
97
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.

Education$124kHuman Services$102kCrime & Legal$91kArts & Culture$89kPhilanthropy$85kHousing & Shelter$84kHealth$83kYouth Development$68kCivil Rights$58kOther$495k
02FY2025 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k60 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $502k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISIS CENTER$25,000
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION$20,000
MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER$20,000
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW$20,000
TRI ARTS PROJECT$20,000
BERKELEY MUSIC GROUP$20,000
GROUNDWORK RANCH$17,355
SECOR$15,000
REENTRY INITIATIVE$15,000
THE DELORES PROJECT$15,000
COLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND$15,000
FAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC$15,000
QUARTER PROJECT OF NORTHERN COLORADO$15,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES$15,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%FOSTER SOURCE: $10k → 10%COLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $15k → 12%FOSTER SOURCE: $1k → 10%CASA DE PAZ: $2k → 10%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $10k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $8k → 7%BREAK THE SILENCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $1k → 9%GROUNDWORK RANCH: $17k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $8k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 40 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
20

Total granted

$1.0M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+7%

Still filing today

88%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AS
    ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $58k · revenue +12%
  • DC
    DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +16%
  • TD
    THE DELORES PROJECT
    3× · 2023–2025 · $34k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • AH
    ARCHWAY HOUSING & SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • TB
    The Black Neighborhood
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • DC
    DANIEL C OAKES HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
2
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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3
Domestic Violence Initiative for Women With Disabilities

Empowering victims and creating a bridge to close the gap for people with disabilities through discovery of self-resiliency by providing support and services.

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4
The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver

The Girls Athletic Leadership School, Denver (GALS) is the only public, all-girls charter school in the State of Colorado. GALS' mission is to empower young women to succeed academically, lead confidently, live boldly, and thrive…

Education
5
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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6
The Conflict Center

The conflict center equips people with practical skills to navigate, transform and embrace everyday conflict.

Crime & Legal
7
Agile Learner Fund

The Agile Learner Fund is a nonprofit organization of Colorado Succeeds. As a supporting organization, ALF exists for the express purpose of supporting activities that benefit Colorado Succeeds' mission, vision, and core strategies. More…

Education
8
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
9
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.

Health
10
Endeavor Colorado

Endeavor colorado is a not-for-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in colorado to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region. high-impact…

Community Improvement
11
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
12
Denver Film Society

The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates - Denver Casa and the most unlike its peers is The Malala Fund. 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 …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterLgbtq+ Community SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Development ServicesCommunity Arts CentersSchool District FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%6%<5yr15%22%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
14%
14,691/102,363

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

73 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. 73 of the 85 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
36/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER — $58,000 · OtherART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVERDouglas County High School — $53,560 · OtherDouglas County High SchoolLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $45,000 · OtherLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under LawROCKY MOUNTAIN DIAPER DEPOT — $31,000 · OtherCRISIS CENTER — $64,500 · OtherCRISIS CENTERelevateHER — $25,000 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES — $25,000 · OtherTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION — $45,000 · OtherTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITIONTHE MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $48,500 · OtherTHE MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONRocky Mountain Microfinance — $30,000 · Other+35 more — $277,690 · Other+35 moreQuarter Project of Northern Colorado — $37,500 · EducationQuarter Pr…Renaissance Secondary School — $31,562 · EducationRenaissanc…THE COLORADO COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationTHE COLORA…Techbridge Girls — $13,500 · EducationTechbridge…Roaring Fork Schools Foundation — $5,000 · Education+9 more — $15,941 · Education+9 moreSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE…SparkHope Automotive — $17,500 · Human ServicesSparkHope…Groundwork Ranch — $17,355 · Human ServicesGroundwor…COLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO …FOSTER SOURCE — $11,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER SO…THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHREE BIR…San Francisco Safehouse — $10,000 · Human ServicesSan Franc…+3 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC — $33,500 · Crime & LegalTHE REENTRY INITIATIVE — $33,000 · Crime & LegalNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $11,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado — $3,500 · Crime & LegalBERKELEY MUSIC GROUP — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTRI ARTS PROJECT — $20,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 Ink — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Arts Education Project — $10,000 · Arts & CultureRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute — $7,500 · Arts & CultureFIREHOUSE THEATER COMPANY — $6,500 · Arts & CultureDouglas County Community Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DELORES PROJECT — $33,500 · Housing & ShelterARCHWAY HOUSING & SERVICES — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$703,250Education$123,503Human Services$102,355Crime & Legal$91,000Arts & Culture$89,000Philanthropy$85,000Housing & Shelter$83,500

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 budgetCRISIS CENTER — $64,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER — $58,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDouglas County Community Foundation — $50,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $48,500 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION — $45,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetQuarter Project of Northern Colorado — $37,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC — $33,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DELORES PROJECT — $33,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE REENTRY INITIATIVE — $33,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRenaissance Secondary School — $31,562 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBERKELEY MUSIC GROUP — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Microfinance — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetelevateHER — $25,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSECOR — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFundamental Needs Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS INC — $17,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH RADIO — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSparkHope Automotive — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOne Goat Incorporated — $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetChapter 510 Ink — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTechbridge Girls — $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTER SOURCE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Arts Education Project — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARCHWAY HOUSING & SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Safehouse — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Black Neighborhood — $7,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFIREHOUSE THEATER COMPANY — $6,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOAR Inc — $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Schools Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarrington Arts Alliance for Creative Personal Development Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VIEW ACADEMY — $2,301 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Janus Henderson F…Mile High United Way …Anschutz Family Found…Western Union Foundat…Schlessman Foundation…Xcel Energy FoundationIma FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO57.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ima Foundation · The Anschutz 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 Vance R and Colleen H Andrus Family Foundation Aka the Indigo Oak 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 · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    27report 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

    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.

    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 85 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.

    Source object · view filing

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