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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.

$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$29kYouth Development$15kInternational$8kRecreation & Sports$4kHuman Services$4kAnimals$2kFood & Nutrition$2kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$540
Median grant
4
States reached
$187k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG LIFE$5,000
LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL$1,577
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$1,500
FREEDOM 58$1,073
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION$540
INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES$500
CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION$500
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC$500
BOULDER BRIDGE HOUSE$313
COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE$260
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $161 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $92 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $49 → 12%LOVE FOR LILY: $416 → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $540 → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $525 → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $312 → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $520 → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $204 → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $100 → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $500 → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $500 → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $364 → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $255 → 12%LOVE FOR LILY: $204 → 12%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34k · 14 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$34k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+34%

Still filing today

86%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +62%
  • LJ
    LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BOULDER
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
  • LD
    LOVES DOOR 4 ALL NATIONS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -13%
  • TA
    THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +34%
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
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
6
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
7
Colorado Village Collaborative

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Coloradans for Food Justice

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.

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10
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Discovery Christian Church of Colorado

Make disciples of Jesus that make new disciples

Religion
12
Project Worthmore

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BOULDER: $27,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BOULDERINTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC: $1,500 · Other+9 more: $4,449 · Other+9 moreYOUNG LIFE: $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLET…+1 more: $50 · Youth DevelopmentLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $4,731 · InternationalLOVE JUSTICE…LOVES DOOR 4 ALL NATIONS INC: $3,000 · InternationalLOVES DOOR 4…EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,685 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $1,619 · Human ServicesLOVE FOR LILY: $620 · Human ServicesBridge House: $516 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $302 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $1,500 · AnimalsPROJECT ANIMALAID: $723 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $1,558 · Food & NutritionBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $104 · Food & NutritionTHE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS: $1,000 · Religion
Other$32,949Youth Development$18,550International$7,731Human Services$4,742Animals$2,223Food & Nutrition$1,662Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG LIFE: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $4,731 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOVES DOOR 4 ALL NATIONS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,685 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $1,619 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $1,558 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANIMALAID: $723 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE FOR LILY: $620 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBridge House: $516 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING OF COLORADO: $309 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $302 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCal-Wood Education Center: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG WAVES INC: $104 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationAEC TrustAmerican Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bixel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bixel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 26 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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