· Private foundation
Townsend 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $40,491 |
| A PRECIOUS CHILD | $25,000 |
| WISH FOR WHEELS | $18,350 |
| RED CROSS | $11,000 |
| COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| DENVER STREET SCHOOL | $5,150 |
| FLATIRONS CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $5,000 |
| OAKS INTERNATIONAL | $4,120 |
| THE GOOD DOG RESCUE | $4,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $2,575 |
| WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $2,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $2,069 |
| ST JUDE | $2,000 |
| ASPCA | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WFWish for Wheels Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +138%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +392%- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- COCASA of Adams & Broomfield Countiesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +102%
- BBBODHI BATTALION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +45%
- NWNATIONAL WESTERN STOCKSHOW ASSOCone grant, 2019 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…
To protect and enhance the lives of companion animals by promoting healthy relationships between pets and people. hsbv is an open admission, socially conscious shelter. hsbv provides safety net services, comprehensive adoption matching for…
To enable coloradoans with disabilities to lead more independent and gratifying lives by partnering them with highly skilled assistance (service) dogs.
Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…
The mission of sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary is to support elderly individuals who can no longer care for their senior pets by providing a safe and loving home for their cherished companions. the sanctuary offers two primary programs…
The mission of the cheyenne animal shelter is to enhance the quality of life for animals and people through compassion, respect and education.
HSSPV's mission is to be a leader in saving lives and serving communities by providing innovative care for animals, finding loving homes and reuniting families.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The organization temporarily feeds colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Good Dog Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds Wish for Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties ↗
- Who funds BODHI BATTALION INC ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Townsend 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.