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Vollbracht Family Foundation at a glance

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Vollbracht Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$185kHealth$152kHuman Services$130kAnimals$100kEducation$80kEnvironment$15kCivil Rights$10kReligion$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WA$25,000
SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
SAFE LANDING HORSE RESCUE$20,000
JUDI'S HOUSE$15,000
GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION$15,000
TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE$15,000
UW COLLEGE OF EDUCATION$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON$10,000
ADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT$10,000
DOWN SYNDROME CENTER OF PUGET SOUND$10,000
COLORADO OPEN LANDS$10,000
CITY OF SEATTLE$5,000
ALYSSA BURNETT CENTER$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 9%DOWN SYNDROME COMMUNITY OF PUGET SOUND: $15k → 9%DOWN SYNDROME COMMUNITY OF PUGET SOUND: $10k → 9%DOWN SYNDROME COMMUNITY OF PUGET SOUND: $2k → 9%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$584k · 14 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +49% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$584k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+49%

Still filing today

79%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
AnimalsHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • GD
    GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +27%
  • GC
    GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +54%
  • JH
    JUDI'S HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • SC
    ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • PC
    Petaid Colorado
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -97%
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
Drage Second Chance Ranch
Animals
2
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding of Nw Colorado
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3
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
4
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
5
Colorado Horse Rescue Network

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.…

Animals
6
Dogs Unbroken

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…

Animals
7
Rainfall Ranch Rescue

Equine rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
8
Swingin' D Horse Rescue
Animals
9
Dog Gone Seattle

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%…

Animals
10
Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals
11
Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado

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…

Animals
12
Front Range German Shepherd Rescue Inc

Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gold Crown Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 25 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONSpecial Olympics: $30,000 · OtherSpecial OlympicsSPECIAL OLYMPICS WA: $25,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS WAROUNDUP RIDERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $20,000 · OtherROUNDUP RIDERS OF THE ROCKIES I…HARING CENTER: $15,000 · OtherHARING CENTERST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME CENTER OF PUGET SOUND: $10,000 · OtherADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT: $10,000 · OtherUW COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $10,000 · OtherJILLS HOUSE INC: $7,000 · Other+4 more: $17,000 · Other+4 moreGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $110,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOUNDATIONJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INCGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDRO…Craig Hospital: $5,000 · HealthDrifters Hearts of Hope Inc: $40,000 · AnimalsDrifters Hearts…SAFE LANDING TB HORSE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $30,000 · AnimalsSAFE LANDING TB…TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE INC: $25,000 · AnimalsTEROLYN HORSE R…SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COM…Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound: $27,000 · Human ServicesDown Syndr…THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON: $25,000 · EducationCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $15,000 · Environment
Other$189,000Philanthropy$185,000Health$115,000Animals$95,000Human Services$62,000Education$25,000Environment$15,000

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 budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDrifters Hearts of Hope Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSAFE LANDING TB HORSE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDown Syndrome Community of Puget Sound: $27,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTEROLYN HORSE RESCUE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetROUNDUP RIDERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPetaid Colorado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCraig Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOLD CROWN 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 THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDUP RIDERS OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
  • Who funds Petaid Colorado ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital ↗

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…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vollbracht Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vollbracht Family Foundation. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 25 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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