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Benjamin Family 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 $10k10 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| GARDEN TO TABLE | $10,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $10,000 |
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BOULDER JCC | $10,000 |
| WESTERN RESOUCE CENTER | $7,500 |
| IMPACT ON EDUCATION | $7,500 |
| BOULDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUALITY | $5,000 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BOULDER BRIDGE HOUSE | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TGTHR | $2,000 |
| HAVEN RIDGE | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- ICIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +35%
- GFGROWE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +67%
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +28%
Funded once
WILD BEAR NATURE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +166%- BOBoulder Open Space Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +341%
- BHBIG HEART BIG HANDone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…
Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing
UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…
To create avenues to stable housing for our community's homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter.
To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Provide affordable cooperative housing to the people of Colorado's Front Range.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Open Boulder Foundation's purpose is to educate the people of Boulder County about major public policy issues affecting city and county government, and to encourage participation in governance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County and the most unlike its peers is Mother House Dba Haven Ridge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds GROWE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ON EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds Boulder Open Space Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
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: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · AEC Trust · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Benjamin 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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