· Private foundation
Borgen 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $396k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $689k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vail Health Foundation | $300,000 |
| Eagle Valley Land Trust | $152,000 |
| Ski and Snowboard Club Vail | $133,500 |
| Denver Botanic Gardens | $125,000 |
| Walking Mountains Science Center | $67,000 |
| The Cycle Effect | $55,000 |
| Vail Valley Foundation | $54,100 |
| School District of Eleva-Strum | $52,000 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| Students Shoulder to Shoulder | $47,000 |
| Betty Ford Alpine Gardens | $40,000 |
| Vail Mountain School | $31,500 |
| Rocky Mountain Land Library | $30,000 |
| Graland Country Day School | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 16 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +210%
- SASki and Snowboard Club Vail8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +84%
- TCThe Cycle Effect8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- SASKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB VAIL GOLD PEAKone grant, 2021 · $300k
- ECELEVA-STRUM CARDINAL MANUFACTURINGone grant, 2021 · $50k
- VYVVF YOUTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
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 peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Colorado outward bound school changes lives through challenge and discovery.
With the outdoors as backdrop for learning, keystone science school inspires curiosity and critical thinking through the lens of science to change lives and strengthen communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sos Outreach and the most unlike its peers is Morgans Message Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 84 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 VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ski and Snowboard Club Vail ↗
- Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAND LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON RECORD ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP Colorado Schools ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds Colorado Succeeds ↗
- Who funds Colorado Ski Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Kelton Family Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · The VF Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation
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 Borgen 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
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.