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Bohemian Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2023
229
Grants FY2023
—
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$8.6MEducation$6.9MScience & Tech$6.9MArts & Culture$4.9MHuman Services$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.3MHealth$2.1MHousing & Shelter$2.0MOther$0
02FY2023 · 229 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 229 grants below total $14,355,972, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,679,922 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,323,950 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k103 grants · $290k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+17 grants · $8.4M
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$178M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Elevation Community Land Trust$1,000,000
Save the Chimps, Inc.$1,000,000
Center for Disaster Philanthropy, Inc.$750,000
National Trust for Local News$750,000
American Oversight Inc.$700,000
National Trust for Local News$500,000
Neighbor to Neighbor, Inc.$500,000
Parentstogether Foundation$500,000
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains$500,000
Advance Democracy Inc.$450,000
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation$300,000
National Trust for Local News$250,000
Alight$250,000
Alight$250,000
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Inc.$250,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43M · 117 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

117 repeat relationships: 102 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
81

Total granted

$43M
$3.7M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • RM
    Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6.8M
  • CS
    Colorado State University Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6.3M
  • CF
    Center for Disaster Philanthropy, Inc.
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.5M

Funded once

  • IF
    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Us
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • FF
    Faith Family Hospitality of Fort Collins, Inc. dba Family Housing Network of FC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • BV
    Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2023.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2021 to 2023, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 240 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative: $6,850,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Innovation InitiativeColorado State University Foundation: $6,296,400 · OtherColorado State University FoundationCenter for Disaster Philanthropy, Inc.: $2,500,000 · OtherAmerican Oversight, Inc: $2,150,000 · OtherSave the Chimps, Inc: $2,000,000 · Other+195 more: $30,074,776 · Other+195 more
Other$49,871,176

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bohemian Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bohemian Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 240 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $16M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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