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The Wana Brands 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.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
130
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$1.9MFood & Nutrition$953kCivil Rights$838kEducation$510kCommunity Improvement$506kHousing & Shelter$436kHuman Services$416kEnvironment$364kOther$0
02FY2024 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $161k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $933k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Johns Hopkins University 2024$400,000
CCD Foundation$200,000
4MyCiTy Inc$200,000
Johns Hopkins University 2024$200,000
Oasis Fresh Foundation$200,000
South Oakland Shelter dba Lighthouse MI$150,000
Boulder Pride dba Out Boulder County$150,000
One Colorado Education Fund$150,000
The Loveland Foundation$150,000
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center FBO Man Therapy$140,000
Unlimited Sciences$112,500
FAST Blackfeet$100,000
National Breast Cancer Coalition$100,000
Healthcare Without Harm$100,000
Our Academy$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $403k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Essential Partners Inc: $35k → 10%Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: $5k → 16%Al Otro Lado: $5k → 11%Health in the Hood: $10k → 15%NuProject: $55k → 12%Evergreen Christian Outreach (EChO): $20k → 7%Minority Cannabis Academy: $10k → 12%TurnAround Inc: $10k → 11%Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence: $10k → 11%Essential Partners Inc: $31k → 10%40 Tons Foundation: $11k → 14%Paradox Sports: $3k → 12%Bridge House: $12k → 12%Bridge House: $3k → 12%Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc: $74k → 12%Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence: $65k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association Inc: $10k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association Inc: $5k → 12%The Wayfaring Band: $5k → 12%Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc: $3k → 12%The Wayfaring Band: $5k → 12%Safehouse Denver: $12k → 12%Safehouse Denver: $3k → 12%Safehouse Denver: $3k → 12%Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
HI
OK
MS
TX
FL
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 55 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
39

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+18%

Still filing today

87%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BP
    BOULDER PRIDE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $380k · revenue +53%
  • TD
    THE DELORES PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $215k · revenue +32%
  • FB
    FAST BLACKFEET
    2× · 2023–2024 · $175k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • JH
    Johns Hopkins University 2023
    one grant, 2023 · $600k
  • PD
    PROJECT DRAWDOWN
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +9%
  • N
    NUPROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue ×17
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 Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
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
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc

Our mission is to provide high quality and equitable reproductive and sexual health services, abortion, and education to all people, regardless of any barriers to healthcare that they may face.

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5
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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6
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
7
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
8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
11
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Colorado; the most unlike its peers is North Side High School Alumni Scholarship Foundati. 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

130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 153 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/130
Grantees still filing
68/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Johns Hopkins University 2024: $600,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins University 2024Johns Hopkins University 2023: $600,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins University 2023CCD Foundation: $408,500 · OtherCCD FoundationUnlimited Sciences: $225,000 · OtherUnlimited SciencesSouth Oakland Shelter dba Lighthouse MI: $162,500 · OtherColorado Nonprofit Development Center FBO Man Therapy: $140,000 · OtherOASIS FRESH FOUNDATIONS: $220,000 · OtherOASIS FRESH FOUNDATIONSTHE DELORES PROJECT: $215,000 · Other4MyCity Inc: $200,000 · Other+74 more: $1,294,575 · Other+74 moreBOULDER PRIDE: $380,000 · Civil RightsBOULDER PRID…ONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $157,500 · Civil RightsONE COLORADO…THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE LOVELAND…SENSIBLE COLORADO: $100,000 · Civil RightsSENSIBLE COL…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE C…Coalition for Food and Health Equity INC: $97,500 · HealthCoalition…RILEY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthRILEY FOU…MEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM: $81,000 · HealthMEDICINE …Ardent Grove Foundation: $60,000 · HealthArdent Gr…THE BLUE BENCH: $60,000 · HealthTHE BLUE …CHANDA CENTER FOR HEALTH: $57,500 · HealthCHANDA CE…ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY PROGRAMS OF COLORADO: $26,420 · HealthTHE ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthREALM OF CARING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthHOPE FOR THE DAY: $22,500 · HealthLEAF411: $22,000 · Health+9 more: $66,000 · Health+9 moreFAST BLACKFEET: $175,000 · Food & NutritionFAST BLAC…WEDONTWASTE INC: $137,500 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWAS…REFED INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionREFED INCNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP: $60,000 · Food & NutritionNY COMMUN…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY…SPOONFULS: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $25,000 · Food & NutritionWaste Not Inc: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $40,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreOUR ACADEMY: $266,000 · EducationPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $150,000 · EducationNOTLEY IMPACT: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $12,500 · EducationSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $141,000 · Human ServicesESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $66,250 · Human ServicesNUPROJECT: $55,000 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesBridge House: $14,500 · Human Services+13 more: $95,250 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DENVER: $112,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ON RECORD: $75,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $49,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $24,500 · Arts & CultureSERIESFEST: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $16,750 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,065,575Civil Rights$837,500Health$627,920Food & Nutrition$607,500Education$478,500Human Services$424,000Arts & Culture$287,750

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 budgetBOULDER PRIDE: $380,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetOUR ACADEMY: $266,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOASIS FRESH FOUNDATIONS: $220,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE DELORES PROJECT: $215,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budget4MyCity Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $175,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $157,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $150,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $141,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $137,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DENVER: $112,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION: $107,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCoalition for Food and Health Equity INC: $97,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetOutdoor Alliance: $88,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRILEY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetMEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM: $81,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREFED INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD: $75,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $66,250 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetYouth Seen: $65,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetArdent Grove Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE BLUE BENCH: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHANDA CENTER FOR HEALTH: $57,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetExpunge Colorado: $57,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetNOTLEY IMPACT: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $49,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTOUT STREET FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $37,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY PROGRAMS OF COLORADO: $26,420 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPOONFULS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetREALM OF CARING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetWaste Not Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $24,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR THE DAY: $22,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLEAF411: $22,000 over 2y, 16% 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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Community Foundation …Schlessman Foundation…Caring for Denver Fou…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…
The Denver FoundationCO50.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar 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 Wana Brands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wana Brands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
  • Turnaround Inc: 18% of income from government
  • New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault: 14% of income from government
  • 4MyCity Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Health in the Hood Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 153 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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