· Private foundation
Alex L Brewer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE | $23,000 |
| CONEJO OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH OF ARVADA | $11,500 |
| REVITAL COLORADO | $11,500 |
| TRUSTED HEALTH NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN | $6,300 |
| URBAN PEAK DENVER | $5,000 |
| BE THE REASON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FOOTHILL ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| MILES FOR MERRY MIRACLES | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- CHCraig Hospital Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +111%
- GCGRACE CHURCH OF ARVADA3× · 2022–2024 · $39k
- RMRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- CSCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -10%
- TNTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +11%
- TBThe Butterfly Family Fundone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +17%
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.
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…
To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.
Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.
At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…
Freedom Revived is here to bring a proactive approach to serving those who serve us. We provide support and encouragement through a variety of services that revitalize mind, body, and spirit to our Frontline.
Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Harbor Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Caruso Family Charities. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. 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.
22 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. 22 of the 28 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 Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Horse Protection League ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CONEJO OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Butterfly Family Fund ↗
- Who funds Trusted Health Network ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AT ROLLING HILLS ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUFFS 4 LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARUSO FAMILY CHARITIES ↗
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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Alex L Brewer 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Alex L Brewer Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Alex L Brewer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.