· Private foundation
Bks Family Charitable 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSTAINABLE SETTINGS | $16,000 |
| CARBONDALE COUNCIL ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES | $2,000 |
| KDNK | $2,000 |
| ANDY ZANCA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| WE SHALL READ | $2,000 |
| SOPRIS SUN | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SOPRIS SUN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +151%
- AZAndy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +85%
- CCCARBONDALE COMMUNITY ACCESS RADIO4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- CCCARBONDALE CLAY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +530%
- CCRMSone grant, 2020 · $1k
- TRTHUNDER RIVER THEATERone grant, 2020 · $1k
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 is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…
BALE is a community resource center devoted to the creation and development of farm, food and local economy initiatives in the Upper White River Valley of Vermont.
Spark, Inc.'s purpose is to design and explore emergent models of human scaled generative social practices through art, community engagement, and reciprocal education.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Our mission is to collaborate with local artists and businesses to promote contemporary art in public spaces in Fort Collins, Colorado. FCMP is focused on providing opportunities for underrepresented and emerging artists in Colorado.
To strengthen community resilience through education and collaboration in agroecology sustainable living and the arts.
To build an abundant, resilient, and valued local food system that supports our landscape, our farmers, ranchers, and food artisans, and our community.
To support contemporary arts through exhibitions, education and cultural programming and serve as an anchor for artistic activity and community. Granary Arts supports and exhibits regional and international artists, provides educational…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 SUSTAINABLE SETTINGS ↗
- Who funds THE SOPRIS SUN INC ↗
- Who funds Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program ↗
- Who funds CARBONDALE COMMUNITY ACCESS RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SOPRIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEED PEACE ↗
- Who funds WE SHALL READ ↗
- Who funds CARBONDALE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER ↗
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: Brady Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bks Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bks Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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