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Vivian Osborne Irrv Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$254k
Granted FY2021
20
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Health$110kHuman Services$41kYouth Development$41kArts & Culture$14kAnimals$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kPublic Benefit$14kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2021 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,680
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAT'L MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$13,000
KTSC CHANNEL 8$13,000
PUEBLO PIONEER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$12,680
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$12,680
DISABILITY SERVICES OF COLORADO$12,680
GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO$12,680
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$12,680
PUEBLO REGIONAL CENTER$12,680
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$12,680
PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$12,680
PUEBLO EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS$12,680
CITY OF PUEBLO$12,680
PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER$12,680
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOC OF COLORADO$12,680
CROSSROADS TURNING POINTS INC$12,680
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 (FY19–21, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $13k → 15%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $13k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $509 → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $475 → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
CO
VA
AZ
OK
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$248k · 20 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
2

Total granted

$248k
$378

Still filing today

45%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CT
    CROSSROADS' TURNING POINTS INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +135%
  • PZ
    PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +59%
  • American Diabetes Association
    3× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CP
    CAPT PEREGRINE WHITE CHAPTER
    one grant, 2020 · $189
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF COLO
    one grant, 2020 · $189
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Curepsp Inc

To raise awareness, build community, improve care and find a cure for psp, cbd and msa.

Health
2
Paralyzed Veterans of America Mountain States Chapter

The key objective of pva is to take those actions necessary to restore spinal cord injured or diseased veterans' bodies and life potentials as closely as is humanly possible to those americans not suffering spinal cord dysfunction. this is…

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3
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
4
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Diabetes Technology Society

To facilitate research into the treatment, monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of diabetes.

Health
7
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
8
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

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9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
11
Cure Msa
Philanthropy
12
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pueblo Zoological Society. 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

11 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. 11 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KTSC CHANNEL 8: $13,984 · OtherKTSC CHANNEL 8PUEBLO EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS: $13,664 · OtherPUEBLO EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMSPUEBLO PIONEER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $13,664 · OtherPUEBLO PIONEER CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $13,664 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAPUEBLO REGIONAL CENTER: $13,664 · OtherPUEBLO REGIONAL CENTER8TH ST BAPTIST CHURCH: $13,664 · Other8TH ST BAPTIST CHURCHCITY OF PUEBLO: $13,664 · OtherCITY OF PUEBLOCAPTAIN PEREGRINE WHITE CHAPTER OF DAC: $13,475 · OtherCAPTAIN PEREGRINE WHITE CHAPTER OF DACAMERICAN LUNG ASSOC OF COLORADO: $13,475 · OtherAMERICAN LUNG ASSOC OF COLORADO+4 more: $2,346 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $13,861 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $13,664 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INCCROSSROADS' TURNING POINTS INC: $13,664 · HealthCROSSROADS' TURNING POINTS INCAmerican Diabetes Association: $13,664 · HealthAmerican Diabetes AssociationDisability Services of Colorado: $13,664 · HealthDisability Services of ColoradoAmerican Heart Association Inc: $13,664 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,680 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCPueblo Cooperative Care Center: $13,664 · Human ServicesPueblo Coo…Mariposa Center for Safety: $12,680 · Human ServicesMariposa C…PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $13,664 · AnimalsGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $13,664 · Youth Development
Other$125,264Health$94,861Human Services$26,344Animals$13,664Youth Development$13,664

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $13,861 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $13,664 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS' TURNING POINTS INC: $13,664 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $13,664 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $13,664 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDisability Services of Colorado: $13,664 over 3y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $13,664 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $13,664 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPueblo Cooperative Care Center: $13,664 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMariposa Center for Safety: $12,680 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS' TURNING POINTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds Disability Services of Colorado ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Pueblo Cooperative Care Center ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Mariposa Center for Safety ↗

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.

The Denver FoundationCO17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Southern Colorado Community Foundat · 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 Vivian Osborne Irrv Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vivian Osborne Irrv Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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 24 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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