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The Vance R and Colleen H Andrus Family Foundation Aka the Indigo Oak Fund at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$243kHuman Services$225kArts & Culture$186kYouth Development$97kHousing & Shelter$94kCivil Rights$94kCrime & Legal$85kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BERKELEY MUSIC GROUP$20,000
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION$20,000
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER$20,000
MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
TRI ARTS PROJECT$20,000
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW$20,000
GROUNDWORK RANCH$17,355
FUNDAMENTAL NEEDS INC$15,000
QUARTER PROJECT OF NORTHERN COLORADO$15,000
SECOR$15,000
THE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES$15,000
ELEVATEHER$15,000
FAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC$15,000
THE DELORES PROJECT$15,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+9%

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
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

  • AS
    ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $58k · revenue +12%
  • TM
    THE MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $49k · revenue +20%
  • DC
    DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +16%

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
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates - Denver Casa; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
36/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 CENTERGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $25,000 · OtherelevateHER: $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…San Francisco Safehouse: $10,000 · Human ServicesSan Franc…THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHREE BIR…+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 3.7% 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 budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetelevateHER: $25,000 over 2y, 3.3% 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 budgetSECOR: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH RADIO: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS INC: $17,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetChapter 510 Ink: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOne Goat Incorporated: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER SOURCE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSan Francisco Arts Education Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSan Francisco Safehouse: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARCHWAY HOUSING & SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $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 budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 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 budget
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 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

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 Vance R and Colleen H Andrus Family Foundation Aka the Indigo Oak Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vance R and Colleen H Andrus Family Foundation Aka the Indigo Oak Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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