· Private foundation
Bardsley 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $129,000 |
| DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC | $55,000 |
| COLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY | $35,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| MERRIMACK COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CORNELL COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $7,000 |
| THE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION WSSA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of your 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $894k · revenue +76%
- CYCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +82%
- DZDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- DPDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +66%
- DYDENVER YOUTH PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -4%
- DPDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -1%
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.
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 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.
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.
To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The denver school of arts friends foundation's mission is to support the denver school of the arts' vision while enhancing programming, inclusiveness and diversity within the school and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Denver Zoological Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 15. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 30 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Laff Foundation · Merle Chambers Fund · Margulf Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Anschutz Family 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 Bardsley 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.
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
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.