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Vierra Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$135kRecreation & Sports$30kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH$50,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO$25,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
THE HAPPY CREW$5,000
ENCIRCLE$5,000
HEARTS & HORSES$5,000
NAMI COLORADO$5,000
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION$5,000
THE CENTER ON COLFAX$5,000
CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION$5,000
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$5,000
ARC OF COLORADO$5,000
MOUNTAIN STATES CHILDREN'S HOME$5,000
TALL TALES RANCH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ENCIRCLE: $5k → 8%MOUNTAIN STATES CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%ARC OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Range Behavioral Health

North range behavioral health is dedicated to providing professional, comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services.

Health
2
Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center

To change the lives of people with disabilities by promoting their physical, psychological and social well-being through equine-assisted activities.

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3
Youth Seen

The mission of Youth Seenis to foster and empower the social and emotional well-being of LGBTQI youth and their families.

Youth Development
4
Bicycle Colorado

We lead a passionate and growing movement that champions the interests of everyone who rides or wants to ride a bicycle in our state.

Education
5
Family Voices Colorado Inc

Making colorado a better place for children and youth with special healthcare needs.

Human Services
6
The Arc of Northeast Colorado

The arc of northeast colorado promotes and protects the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through empowerment, advocacy and community outreach.

Human Services
7
No Barriers Usa

We nbsp;cultivate nbsp;a nbsp;mindset nbsp;in nbsp;people nbsp;affected nbsp;by nbsp;disabilities nbsp;to nbsp;break nbsp;through nbsp;barriers nbsp;and nbsp;elevate nbsp;their nbsp;lives nbsp;and nbsp;communities

International
8
National Alliance On Mental Illness - Colorado Springs

Nami colorado springs exists to educate, support, and advocate for people and families who are living with mental illness in the pikes peak region.

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9
Arc of West Central Colorado

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…

Human Services
10
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
11
National Sports Center for the Disabled Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
12
Arc Thrift Stores Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roundup River Ranch; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH: $50,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTHINST FOR CHILD MENTAL DISORDERS: $50,000 · OtherINST FOR CHILD MENTAL DISORDERSIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS…ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER RA…THE ARC OF COLORADO: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SE…Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $5,000 · Human ServicesEncircle F…Mountain States Children's Home: $5,000 · Human ServicesMountain S…CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…HEARTS & HORSES INC: $5,000 · HealthHEARTS & H…NAMI COLORADO: $5,000 · HealthNAMI COLOR…TALL TALES RANCH: $5,000 · HealthTALL TALES…THE HAPPY CREW INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$127,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Human Services$20,000Health$20,000Youth Development$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HAPPY CREW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vierra Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vierra Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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