· Private foundation
Bep Earthwise Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOS FEMINISTA | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $50,000 |
| POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $35,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY-COLORADO | $35,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $35,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $30,000 |
| CONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO | $30,000 |
| WILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADO | $25,000 |
| POPULATION CONNECTION | $20,000 |
| VOYAGER YOUTH PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| TELLURIDE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| UNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
| TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +1%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +121%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- MMMONTROSE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +44%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $300
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.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
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…
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
Protection and preservation of the Marolt Park and open space, for community passive use and enjoyment. Protection and preservation of the Marolt Park and open space riparian zone for wildlife habitat. In 2024 we educated and informed the…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.
To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.
Building diverse communities that care for the land.
Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ouray Mountain Rescue Team Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 36 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 POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTROSE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Ouray Mountain Rescue Team Inc ↗
- Who funds TRAIL GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds OURAY COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds San Juan Skijoring 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: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Telluride Foundation · Kissinger Family Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Ralph and Ricky Lauren Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bep Earthwise 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.