· Private foundation
Vollbracht Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS WA | $25,000 |
| SAFE LANDING HORSE RESCUE | $20,000 |
| SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE | $15,000 |
| COLORADO OPEN LANDS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| UW COLLEGE OF EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME CENTER OF PUGET SOUND | $10,000 |
| ADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT | $10,000 |
| ALYSSA BURNETT CENTER | $5,000 |
| CITY OF SEATTLE | $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 (FY18–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- GCGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +54%
- GDGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +27%
- JHJUDI'S HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HCHARING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $15k
- SCST CATHERINE'S SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CHCraig Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +32%
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.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
Colorado Horse Rescue Network was established in 2013 after several founding members saw the need for a state-wide organization to help needy equines. CHRN has a central facility Rush, CO and a network of foster homes all over the state.…
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
Equine rescue and rehabilitation
Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100%…
501c3 horse rescue
Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado LDAR serves the public as a 501c3 tax exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue of homeless and abandoned animals in Colorado and surrounding areas. We rescue, rehabilitate and find homes…
Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gold Crown Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle of Washington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Drifters Hearts of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE LANDING TB HORSE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound ↗
- Who funds TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIDERS OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds Petaid Colorado ↗
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 · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Vollbracht 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.