· Private foundation
Weckbaugh Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Weckbaugh Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Denver Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Weckbaugh Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k19 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAVERN CENTER | $18,170 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $2,500 |
| REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MULLEN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| HOME HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS | $1,500 |
| MOUNT SAINT VINCENT | $1,500 |
| DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY | $1,500 |
| MAXFUND | $1,500 |
| PRAYING HANDS RANCH | $1,000 |
| FATHER WOODY'S HAVEN OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FRECKLES AND TOMCAT RESCUE | $500 |
| BAYAUD ENTERPRISES | $500 |
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 (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TMTHE MAXFUND INC4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +77%
- DHDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +66%
- NYNathan Yip Foundation2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- DMDivine Mercy Supportive Care Incone grant, 2017 · $1k
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +254%
- MHMILE HIGH 360graduatedone grant, 2018 · $265 · revenue +136%
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.
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
We reveal and foster god's healing love by improving the health ofthe people and communities we serve, especially those who are poorand vulnerable.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
To optimize the whole-person health of the more than 400,000 residents of the western colorado medical trade area qhn serves. qhn's health information exchange (hie) improves the efficiency, timeliness, and quality of the healthcare…
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
We embrace the power of community to support individuals and families in creating their future. we do this by: simplifying access, celebrating individuality, and bridging communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Home Health Care Professionals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAVERN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds HOME HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Praying Hands Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jk Mullen Foundation · Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Daniels Fund · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · John & Florence Fortune Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt 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 Weckbaugh 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.
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