· Private foundation
Bixel Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL | $1,577 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,500 |
| FREEDOM 58 | $1,073 |
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION | $540 |
| CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC | $500 |
| INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES | $500 |
| BOULDER BRIDGE HOUSE | $313 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE | $260 |
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 (FY21–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +62%
- LJLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +17%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BOULDERone grant, 2020 · $27k
- LDLOVES DOOR 4 ALL NATIONS INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -13%
- LDLOVES DOOR 4 ALLone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.
Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Coloradans for food justice is building community power by making sure that every eater in colorado has a voice to make transformative change that represents a more just food system by mobilizing values-driven voters statewide.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Make disciples of Jesus that make new disciples
To provide programs that foster community, self-sufficiency and increase quality of life among denver-area refugees. from our start offering makeshift english classes in living rooms, we now offer six comprehensive programs to thousands of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Community Sailing of Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LOVES DOOR 4 ALL NATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANIMALAID ↗
- Who funds LOVE FOR LILY ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SAILING OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BIG WAVES INC ↗
- Who funds Cal-Wood Education Center ↗
- Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · AEC Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Bixel 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.