· Private foundation
Avenir Foundation Inc
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.
Anchored by a single position: about 100% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Class A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Martin's Chamber Choir | $10,000,000 |
| Kulakamala Foundation | $8,000,000 |
| Santa Fe Opera | $1,000,000 |
| Colorado Symphony Fund | $1,000,000 |
| Central City Opera | $500,000 |
| American Institute of Physics | $250,000 |
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, $9.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Avenir Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 36%.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM4× · 2018–2021 · $10M · revenue +18%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA5× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +84%
- AIAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC4× · 2018–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +21%
Funded once
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10M · revenue -14%- TNTHE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue 0% · 58% of their budget
- BNBERKS NATUREgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +48%
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
The colorado symphony association (csa) is a not-for-profit organization established to fund and operate the colorado symphony orchestra for the enjoyment and benefit of the citizens of metropolitan denver and (cont'd on schedule…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 27 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 UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS CHAMBER CHOIR ↗
- Who funds KULA KAMALA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SPAYED CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
- Who funds BERKS NATURE ↗
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 · Merle Chambers Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Avenir Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avenir Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- American Institute of Physics Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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