· Public charity
Unbridled Acts
To love people to life, and empower them to flourish in their identity through building authentic community, facilitating healing and restoration, empowering identity, helping people to launch into their unique life calling, and stewarding strategic partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $321,597 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $731,575 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $409,978 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORDINARY MISSIONARIES | $85,000 |
| WEBSTER UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BRIDGEWAY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $50,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF COLORADO | $22,368 |
| HOPE HOUSE CAON CITY | $15,401 |
| CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| STUDIO CHURCH | $15,000 |
| DREAM TOGETHER | $9,940 |
| CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (CAA) | $8,888 |
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 (FY17–23, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 42% of Unbridled Acts’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. Read by recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 33% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- OMOrdinary Missionaries8× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +49% · 38% of their budget
- PHPeaceful Hugs2× · 2020–2021 · $85k · revenue ×11 · 98% of their budget
- GLGREAT LAKES OUTREACH INC3× · 2017–2019 · $68k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- DDDENVER DREAM CENTERone grant, 2022 · $75k
- BMBallet Melangeone grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue -11%
- SLSHINING LIGHT INTERNATIONALgraduated2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +159%
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Make disciples of Jesus that make new disciples
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
Together colorado is a multi-racial, multi-faith community organization comprised of member congregations and faith leaders established to: 1. create a statewide sense of community based on relationships of mutual respect, love,…
Our vision is to be a catalyst for god-inspired transformation through artisan enterprise, leading to abundant & purposeful lives. our mission is to empower women & families overcoming trauma & injustice, bridging the gap from pain to…
To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.
Change Eternity One Child at a Time: Colorado Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) exists to reach unchurched children with the life-changing message of Jesus through after-school and summer clubs that encourage their spiritual formation. We…
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Melange. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 38 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 Ordinary Missionaries ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Hugs ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BridgeWay Ministries International ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON RECORD ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds Ballet Melange ↗
- Who funds SHINING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE CANON CITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE BENCH ↗
- Who funds Kinder Haus ↗
- Who funds FREMONT CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL AND THRIVE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds METROVOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds THE ABOVE AND BEYOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds FREMONT COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Lubirds Light Foundation ↗
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: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Unbridled Acts 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.
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.