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Thiry-O'Leary 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$609k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$4.4MEducation$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.8MPhilanthropy$881kCommunity Improvement$689kHealth$525kCivil Rights$393kInternational$251kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $380k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $849k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.7M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE$609,352
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$302,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$255,000
GLADSTONE FOUNDATION$250,000
DENVER HYBRID COLLEGE$250,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF COLORADO$125,000
REPRESENT US EDUCATION FUND$100,000
DSST PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND$100,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES$100,000
LA RAZA SERVICES$100,000
THE COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$100,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$69,600
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$54,000
DENVER HEALTH & HOSPITALS FOUNDATION$50,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$50,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $10k → 12%THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $2k → 12%COLORADO COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 32% of Thiry-O'Leary Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Thiry-O'Leary Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 27 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
81

Total granted

$4.0M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

78%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $906k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UA
    UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +690%
  • DH
    DENVER HYBRID COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +193% · 29% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    2× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CC
    CITY CLIMATE FINANCE GAP FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • UA
    UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • TD
    THE DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN
    one grant, 2022 · $250k

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.

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Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
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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4
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
5
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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6
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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7
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
8
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Mountain Bike Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Immigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Public Library OperationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Lgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,481

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

81 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 141 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/81
Grantees still filing
47/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,427,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCITY CLIMATE FINANCE GAP FUND — $300,000 · OtherUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE — $250,000 · OtherTHE DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN — $250,000 · OtherDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherDENVER HYBRID COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $236,000 · Other+89 more — $2,287,905 · Other+89 moreDENVER HYBRID COLLEGE — $1,006,000 · EducationDENVER HYBRID COLLEGETHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $365,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $280,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERGLADSTONE FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationGLADSTONE FOUNDATIONColorado Succeeds — $200,000 · EducationColorado Succeeds+10 more — $155,000 · Education+10 moreUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $1,259,352 · Public BenefitUNITE AMERICA …RepresentUs Education Fund — $125,000 · Public BenefitRepresentUs Ed…ISSUE ONE — $100,000 · Public BenefitISSUE ONE+3 more — $65,000 · Public BenefitLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $185,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM — $47,500 · Arts & CultureColorado Sun — $35,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $34,830 · Arts & CultureDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $54,500 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $12,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $64,000 · Community ImprovementFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship — $50,000 · Community ImprovementColorado Thrives — $35,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementLeague of Women Voters of Colorado — $125,000 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT — $75,000 · Civil RightsREPRESENTWOMEN INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$7,000,905Education$2,256,000Public Benefit$1,549,352Arts & Culture$417,330Philanthropy$366,500Community Improvement$274,000Civil Rights$235,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,427,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $1,259,352 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetDENVER HYBRID COLLEGE — $1,006,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $365,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $280,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGLADSTONE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $204,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY — $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetColorado Succeeds — $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLeague of Women Voters of Colorado — $125,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund — $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISSUE ONE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT — $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $64,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $54,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship — $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Thrives — $35,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetColorado Sun — $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREPRESENTWOMEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF COLORADO — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $23,880 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $20,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH HOPES COLORADO — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCATALYST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGardner Valley School — $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIPS AT AUSCHWITZ FOR THE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BLUE BENCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Colorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Gates Family Foundati…Daniels FundWalton Family Foundat…El Pomar FoundationThe Women's Foundatio…The Anschutz Foundati…
The Denver FoundationCO41.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Anschutz Foundation

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 Thiry-O'Leary 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    16report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Thiry-O'Leary Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thiry-O'Leary Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 141 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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