· Private foundation
Boettcher Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
The 241 grants below total $9,463,256 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,243,625 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $780,369 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k169 grants · $352k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $995k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+9 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Colorado Boulder - Scholarships | $1,564,783 |
| Colorado College - Scholarships | $990,809 |
| University of Denver - Scholarships | $942,194 |
| University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | $696,126 |
| Colorado State University - Scholarships | $526,222 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | $487,136 |
| Colorado School of Mines - Scholarships | $414,689 |
| Colorado State University - Grants | $257,500 |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $250,000 |
| National Jewish Health | $242,500 |
| University of Northern Colorado Foundation | $200,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $150,000 |
| Colorado State Fair Foundation | $150,000 |
| University of Denver | $125,000 |
| University of Colorado Colorado Springs | $120,370 |
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 (FY20–21, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 83 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- PEPUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +76% · 32% of their budget
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- COCity of Colorado Springsone grant, 2020 · $200k
- DZDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +30%
University of New Englandone grant, 2022 · $124k · revenue +20%
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.
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…
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…
The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Three Creeks K-8 Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
337 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. 337 of the 517 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOETTCHER SCHOLARS FUND ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVICO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
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: The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Anschutz Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Trust
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 Boettcher 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.