· Private foundation
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 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.
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 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +182%- BOBoulder Open Space Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +341%
- BHBIG HEART BIG HANDone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benjamin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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