· Private foundation
Vierra Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES CHILDREN'S HOME | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS | $5,000 |
| ENCIRCLE | $5,000 |
| NAMI COLORADO | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE CENTER ON COLFAX | $5,000 |
| TALL TALES RANCH | $5,000 |
| ARC OF COLORADO | $5,000 |
| ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEARTS & HORSES | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
North range behavioral health is dedicated to providing professional, comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services.
To change the lives of people with disabilities by promoting their physical, psychological and social well-being through equine-assisted activities.
The mission of Youth Seenis to foster and empower the social and emotional well-being of LGBTQI youth and their families.
We lead a passionate and growing movement that champions the interests of everyone who rides or wants to ride a bicycle in our state.
Making colorado a better place for children and youth with special healthcare needs.
The arc of northeast colorado promotes and protects the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through empowerment, advocacy and community outreach.
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Nami colorado springs exists to educate, support, and advocate for people and families who are living with mental illness in the pikes peak region.
The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
Our mission is to advance the power of people with all abilities through adaptive innovation and the joy of recreation and outdoor experiences. continued on schedule o
As one of the nations largest employers of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, we believe in the power of employment to foster independence and fulfillment. By providing enriching job opportunities and educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roundup River Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Mountain States Children's Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE HAPPY CREW INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HEARTS & HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vierra Family 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.
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.