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Bacon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $257k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $100,000 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MIND SPRINGS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STRIVE | $40,000 |
| RIVERSIDE EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| MESA COUNTY LIBRARIES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MARILLAC HEALTH | $25,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEALTH & HOPE | $15,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS WESTERN CO | $12,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $10,000 |
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $742k) 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 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Bacon Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- HHopeWest6× · 2020–2025 · $670k · revenue +54%
- GVGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $478k · revenue +16%
- CMCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MCMESA COUNTY YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ANAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS WESTERN COLORADO CHAPTERone grant, 2021 · $36k
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…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
The mission of the grand junction economic partnership is to generate high quality economic development by attracting business and quality jobs to mesa county, colorado.
Cbhc's mission is to support community resilience, guide behavioral health innovation, and enhance individual well-being throughout colorado by supporting colorado's community behavioral health safety net providers.
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Mutual aid partners is a network that supports and connects grassroots efforts in mesa county colorado, by facilitating communication, education, boosting collaboration and accessibility to resources & volunteers.
To provide access to quality behavioral health services that enrich lives and promote wellness. We are driven by a profound respect for human dignity and a desire to serve the underrepresented, the disenfranchised, and those who experience…
The mission of meals on wheels is to provide nutritious meals to residents of the community who need and want their services, regardless of age or income.
To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.
Nami colorado offers educational programs designed to educate and support family members, friends and individuals affected by mental illness. we aim to develop skills to help people cope with the challenges of mental illness. we advocate…
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riversedge West. 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 90 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 HopeWest ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Health and Hope ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MIND SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVERSEDGE WEST ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVALON THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds MASLOW ACADEMY OF APPLIED LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
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: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Goodwin Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · United Way of Mesa County Inc · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Trust · St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Inc
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 Bacon 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.
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