· Private foundation
Wenaas 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEEN CHALLENGE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ST JUDES | $10,000 |
| ANGEL CHARITY | $10,000 |
| CURE AZHEIMERS FUND | $10,000 |
| WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WELD FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| ALS UNITED ROCKY MOUNTAIN | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,036 |
| A WOMENS PLACE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +12% · 34% of their budget
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +125%- WFWELD FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
- NCNORTH COLORADO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Womens Resource Center (WRC) in Durango connects women and girls to the resources and programming that will help them reach their full potential in all states of their life.
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE LIVES THE LYDIA DODY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Amerind Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Weld Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Tointon Family Foundation · The Weld Trust · United Way of Weld County Inc · Weld Legacy Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Sorelle Family Foundation · Monfort Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wenaas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wenaas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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