· Private foundation
The William B ORourke Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colorado Coalition for the Homeless | $30,000 |
| Ensight Skills Center Inc | $20,000 |
| Aftersight fka AiNC | $15,000 |
| Emergency Family Assistance Associa | $15,000 |
| Mountain States Congress of Optomet | $11,000 |
| See the Future Fund | $10,000 |
| Innervision | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of The William B ORourke Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 83%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ESENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +56%
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +112%
- AIAUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- MSMOUNTAIN STATES CONGRESS OF OPTMETRone grant, 2019 · $12k
- COCOLORADO OPTOMERTRIC ASSOCIATION INone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SRSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -56%
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.
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.
A3 is a 501 (c)(3) dedicated to personalized education, training, and support for individuals significantly impacted by vision loss to help them adapt, adjust, and achieve maximum independence.
Foresight promotes safety fun and independence for people who are blind or have low vision through accessible outdoor adaptive experiences.
Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…
The Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired's mission is to eliminate vision loss as the barrier to employment, community participation or quality of life. We are the only statewide training and resource center for vision…
Self-help training and support to blind people.
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
Bosma enterprises, creating opportunities for individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
The sight center provides a unique blend of specialized vision rehabilitation programs and services that can help people of all ages work, learn, play and live independently with permanent vision loss. primary services include low vision…
The mission of lighthouse of collier, inc. is to foster independence and enhance the quality of life for the blind, visually impaired and their caregivers.
The center of vision enhancement primary mission is to provide services, support, health resource access, training, referrals, education and community outreach for the benefit of persons with any level of visual impairment so as to…
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ENSIGHT SKILLS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATE CONGRESS OF OPTOMETRY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO LIONS KIDSIGHT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A SHARED VISION PARTNERS IN PEDIATRIC BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMP ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William B ORourke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William B ORourke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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