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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.

$409k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$757kInternational$270kHealth$170kSocial Science$55kCivil Rights$50kArts & Culture$30kEducation$29kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOS FEMINISTA$50,000
POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY-COLORADO$35,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$35,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$35,000
CONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO$30,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$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
OURAY COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES$2,500
UNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $35k → 10%FOS FEMINISTA: $50k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 14%TELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST: $5k → 11%WILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADO: $25k → 12%MONTROSE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY-COLORADO: $35k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $50k → 12%INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $50k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 14%TELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%WILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADO: $20k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $35k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $50k → 12%INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $25k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%WILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADO: $20k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY-COLORADO: $30k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $25k → 12%INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $20k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%WILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADO: $15k → 12%CONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO: $30k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $20k → 12%INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $15k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%WILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADO: $10k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $30k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $15k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY-COLORADO: $25k → 12%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30k → 12%CONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO: $25k → 12%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30k → 12%CONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO: $25k → 12%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $25k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY-COLORADO: $20k → 12%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20k → 12%CONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO: $20k → 12%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $15k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY-COLORADO: $15k → 12%CONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO: $15k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $25k → 7%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $20k → 7%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $15k → 7%VOYAGER YOUTH PROGRAM: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 29 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+44%

Still filing today

62%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalSocial ScienceEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 REGION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +1%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +121%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • MM
    MONTROSE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $300
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
2
Upper Colorado River Alliance
Environment
3
Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
4
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
5
Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment
6
Friends of Marolt Park

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…

Environment
7
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
8
San Juan Citizens Alliance

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.

Environment
9
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

Environment
10
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers

Building diverse communities that care for the land.

Environment
11
Living Rivers

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…

Environment
12
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $160,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD - ROCKY MOUNTAINSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORADO: $115,000 · OtherCONSERVATION FUND-WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE COLORAD…WILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADO: $90,000 · OtherWILDERNESS SOCIETY COLORADONATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $35,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL+17 more: $106,600 · Other+17 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $125,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND IN…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COU…MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $19,000 · Environment+3 more: $28,500 · Environment+3 morePOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $160,000 · HealthPOPULATION AC…MONTROSE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthMONTROSE MEMO…INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $160,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONA…POPULATION CONNECTION: $55,000 · Social ScienceFRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $25,000 · EducationTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSan Juan Skijoring Inc: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$631,600Environment$382,500Health$170,000International$160,000Social Science$55,000Education$25,000Recreation & Sports$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $160,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $25,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC: $10,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetUNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetOuray Mountain Rescue Team Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMONTROSE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAIL GROUP INC: $7,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOURAY COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS GUILD INC: $2,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budget
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 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 THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Ouray Mountain Rescue Team Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTROSE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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 ↗

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.

Western Colorado Comm…Telluride FoundationKissinger Family Foun…Colorado Gives Founda…The Ralph and Ricky L…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Western Colorado Community Foundation IncCO23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bep Earthwise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bep Earthwise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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