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The Verdoorn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
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 FY20182025.

Education$425kHealth$265kAnimals$141kHuman Services$135kHousing & Shelter$98kReligion$86k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Morningside College$50,000
Phoenix Childrens Hospital$26,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$25,000
Folds of Honor$25,000
Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship$16,000
Sunrise Horse Rescue$16,000
Home Aid Colorado$16,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Phoenix Childrens Hospital: $30k → 11%Sunrise Horse Rescue: $20k → 9%Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $25k → 11%Morningside College: $50k → 13%The Chilrdens Hospital: $19k → 10%Home Aid Colorado: $20k → 12%Phoenix Childrens Hospital: $30k → 11%Sunrise Horse Rescue: $20k → 9%Tunnel To Towers Foundation: $25k → 11%Morningside College: $50k → 13%KEMPE Childrens Foundation: $15k → 10%Home Aid Colorado: $20k → 12%Phoenix Childrens Hospital: $26k → 11%Sunrise Horse Rescue: $20k → 9%Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $25k → 11%Morningside College: $50k → 13%KEMPE Childrens Foundation: $15k → 10%Home Aid Colorado: $16k → 12%Phoenix Childrens Hospital: $26k → 11%Sunrise Horse Rescue: $16k → 9%Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $25k → 11%Morningside College: $50k → 13%Home Aid Colorado: $16k → 12%Phoenix Childrens Hospital: $26k → 11%Sunrise Horse Rescue: $16k → 9%Morningside College: $50k → 13%Home Aid Colorado: $16k → 12%Carefree Church: $30k → 11%Sunrise Horse Rescue: $16k → 9%Morningside College: $50k → 13%Home Aid Colorado: $10k → 12%Carefree Church: $30k → 11%Carefree Church: $30k → 11%Carefree Church: $26k → 11%Folds of Honor: $25k → 11%Folds of Honor Foundation: $25k → 11%Folds of Honor: $25k → 11%Folds of Honor: $25k → 11%Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship: $20k → 11%Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship: $20k → 11%Foothills Animal Rescue: $20k → 11%Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship: $20k → 11%Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship: $16k → 11%Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship: $16k → 11%Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship: $16k → 11%Foothills Animal Rescue: $13k → 11%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$1.1M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+108%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • MU
    MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +17%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital
    5× · 2021–2025 · $138k · revenue +37%
  • CT
    CAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR ARIZONA CHAPTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +108%
  • TC
    The Chilrdens Hospital
    one grant, 2018 · $19k

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
Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon

Our mission is to enhance the lives of individuals living with physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges by providing innovative, accessible and safe equine-assisted therapeutic programs of the highest quality. we are…

Animals
2
Special Equestrians Inc

To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.

Health
3
Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc

Empowering individuals with diverse abilities to reach their full potential through equine-assisted services since 1974.

Recreation & Sports
4
Code 3 Associates Inc

Animal welfare code 3 associates provides professional animal disaster response and resources to communities, as well as providing professional training to individuals and agencies involved in animal related law enforcement and emergency…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
6
Ranch Hands Rescue

To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.

Animals
7
Colorado Horse Rescue

Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.

Animals
8
For Hanks Sake

For hanks sake is a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and retraining neglected and abused horses. in addition to helping disadvantaged horses, for hanks sake offers the same services to retired racehorses for…

Animals
9
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
10
First Nature Foundation Inc Kerul Kassel

At first nature foundation, our mission is to help program participants grow their emotional resilience, self-confidence, and self-awareness, by partnering with nature and our wise herd of horses, who help facilitate these outcomes. at our…

Human Services
11
The Spirit Horse Ranch Inc

Our mission is to provide transformative equine-assisted therapy that foster trauma recovery, suicide prevention, and resilience building for individuals and communities.

Recreation & Sports
12
Wings of Hope Therapeutic Riding Program Inc

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITYSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIO…FOLDS OF HONOR ARIZONA CHAPTER — $25,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR ARIZONA CHAPTERCarefree Church — $116,000 · OtherCarefree ChurchCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC — $98,000 · OtherCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVID…Folds of Honor — $75,000 · OtherFolds of HonorKEMPE Childrens Foundation — $30,000 · OtherKEMPE Childrens FoundationThe Chilrdens Hospital — $18,500 · OtherThe Chilrdens HospitalPhoenix Children's Hospital — $138,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospi…CAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $108,000 · HealthCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORS…SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE — $108,000 · AnimalsSUNRISE HORSE…FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE — $33,000 · AnimalsFOOTHILLS ANI…
Education$425,000Other$337,500Health$246,000Animals$141,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital — $138,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $108,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSUNRISE HORSE RESCUE — $108,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC — $98,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetFOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE — $33,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR ARIZONA CHAPTER — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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.

  • Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital
  • Who funds CAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC
  • Who funds SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC
  • Who funds FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR ARIZONA CHAPTER

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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Verdoorn 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 12 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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