· Private foundation
Bacon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MARILLAC HEALTH | $25,000 |
| RIVERSIDE EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY | $25,000 |
| MESA COUNTY LIBRARIES FOUNDATION | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 16% of Bacon Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 71%.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHopeWest6× · 2020–2025 · $670k · revenue +76%
- 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
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.
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.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 90 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 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 MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE AVALON THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MASLOW ACADEMY OF APPLIED LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bacon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bacon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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