· Private foundation
Bf 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND CANYON TRUST | $40,000 |
| LOWELL OBSERVATORY | $35,000 |
| NORTHERN AZ UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LOWELL OBSERVATORY | $25,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| WILDERNESS LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| GEORGIA O'KEEFE MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| WILDERNESS LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY NEWS | $5,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AVASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $318k · revenue +177%
- HCHIGH COUNTRY NEWS8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +3%
- TGTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC7× · 2018–2024 · $178k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- JGJOHN GOLD PRE COLLEGIATEone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SFSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -52%
- SFSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +2%
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 mission of estes valley land trust is to conserve land throughout the estes valley and surrounding areas for current and future generations.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.
The mission of the association is to inspire "deeper connection, better understanding, and enduring support for our public lands."
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
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…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Art Base ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Brady Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · The Austin Memorial Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Catto Shaw Foundation · Arches Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Kiryle Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · The Flunison Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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