· Private foundation
Alpenglow 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 $10k98 grants · $291k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $423k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $75,000 |
| TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE | $50,500 |
| ENGLISH IN ACTION | $50,400 |
| THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $50,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| ASPEN FILM | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| GRAND COUNTY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MAROLT PARK | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESPONSE COALITION OF KENTUCKY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $25,000 |
| ROARING FORK SAFE PASSAGES | $20,000 |
| LIFT UP | $20,000 |
| CIVICASPEN | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 18 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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
- CRCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $513k · revenue +56%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +81%
- MFMOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS7× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +28%
Funded once
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -23%- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +44%
- TWTEAM WKY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Marolt Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
139 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. 139 of the 202 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS ↗
- Who funds The Art Base ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE COUCH ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds MOAB HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
- Who funds BASALT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Tiny News Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CLL Global Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Roaring Fork Safe Passages ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MAROLT PARK ↗
- Who funds MOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Arches Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Palladium Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar 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 Alpenglow 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.