· Public charity
United Way of Larimer County
We advance our vision of a larimer county where all children and youth have everything they need to thrive by supporting four building blocks of lifelong success: family financial stability, kindergarten readiness, reading at grade level, and high school graduation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $1,609,332 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,109,862 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,500,530 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY | $848,490 |
| NOCO FOUNDATION | $473,743 |
| THE MATTHEWS HOUSE | $80,211 |
| THE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA | $53,474 |
| ESTES VALLEY INVESTMENT IN CHILDHOOD SERVICES | $29,826 |
| INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY AND ACCOMPANIMENT COALITION (ISAAC) | $25,300 |
| POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY | $20,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO | $16,000 |
| ESTES PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FORT COLLINS COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $11,178 |
| UNITE FOR LITERACY LLC | $6,660 |
| ALIANZA NORCO | $6,450 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +84%
- TMTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $832k · revenue +31%
- TFTHE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA9× · 2017–2025 · $479k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- LYLoveland Youth Gardenersone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue +23% · 51% of their budget
- JJJoyful Journeys Community Enrichmentone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0% · 38% of their budget
- BMBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
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The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
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.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of Colorado Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds ESTES VALLEY INVESTMENT IN CHILDHOOD SUC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY AND ACCOMPANIMENT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHING TREE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds Estes Park Learning Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc ↗
- Who funds Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins ↗
- Who funds LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ALIANZA NORCO ↗
- Who funds Loveland Youth Gardeners ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Thompson Valley Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Joyful Journeys Community Enrichment ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROOTS MIDWIFE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER OF BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MOTUS THEATER ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Spark ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Cal-Wood Education Center ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Realities for Children Charities · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 United Way of Larimer County 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.