· Private foundation
Avalanche Canyon 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| COLORADO ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| NORTH WEST FAMILY ASSISTANCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| COLORADO ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- IIINVEST IN KIDS7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +84%
- ADALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +44%
- CACOLORADO ACADEMY2× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SCSHARING CONNEXION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +147%
- DPDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -1%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +21%
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.
Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.
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,…
Excellence in scholarship and character is the goal of a kent denver education. the school seeks to build a caring, diverse community of responsible citizens. to that end, the school provides a challenging college preparatory curriculum…
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Teaching whole child using thematic curriculum, conflict resolution,self esteem, non-violent solutions to problems. bringing community sogether socially, serving nutritious meals.
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.
The denver police blue hat foundation provides financial assistance and support to active and former denver police officers, civilian employees of the police department and immediate members of their families in times of crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Family Assistance Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SHARING CONNEXION INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Family Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA DONOR NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Avalanche Canyon 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.