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The William B ORourke Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The William B ORourke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$106k29%
FY20247$99k0%
FY20237$95k14%
FY20226$76k17%
FY20218$113k13%
FY20208$100k13%
FY20199$132k22%
FY20189$105k44%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$438kHuman Services$130kArts & Culture$121kEducation$80kRecreation & Sports$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($299k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The William B ORourke Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEnsight Skills Center: $155,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetEmergency Family Assistance Association: $135,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAudio Information Network of Colora: $121,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetMountain State Congress of Optometry: $53,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetColorado Lions Kidsight Program Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetColorado Center for the Blind: $37,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSeniors' Resource Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUnited States Association of Blind Athletes Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 FoundationCO17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The William B ORourke Foundation

How much does The William B ORourke Foundation give?
The William B ORourke Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $106,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The William B ORourke Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (57%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are The William B ORourke Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ensight Skills Center ($155k), Emergency Family Assistance Association ($135k), Audio Information Network of Colora ($121k).
Does The William B ORourke Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The William B ORourke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The William B ORourke Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is The William B ORourke Foundation based?
The William B ORourke Foundation is based in CO.

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 17 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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