Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

Brett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$481k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$711kCommunity Improvement$564kEducation$489kPublic Benefit$367kArts & Culture$333kCivil Rights$205kEnvironment$114kHuman Services$109kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING BOULDER COUNTY$90,000
THE BELL POLICY CENTER$60,000
NEW ERA COLORADO FOUNDATION$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$30,000
COLORADO TIMES RECORDER$15,000
COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$15,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC$13,000
COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION$10,000
COLORADO DEMOCRACY NETWORK$10,000
PROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$10,000
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND$10,000
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC$10,000
IMPACT CHARITABLE$10,000
Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCK FUND: $10k → 9%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $5k → 10%CRESTONE EAGLE COMMUNITY MEDIA: $3k → 23%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $5k → 10%CRESTONE EAGLE COMMUNITY MEDIA: $3k → 23%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $5k → 10%Crestone Eagle Community Media: $3k → 23%HOPE (HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT): $4k → 12%HOPE (HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT): $4k → 12%HOPE (HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT): $4k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund: $8k → 12%THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%COLORADO INDEPENDENT: $10k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $4k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $9k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WI
NY
MA
WY
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 20% of Brett Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Brett Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 51 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
25

Total granted

$2.2M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+20%

Still filing today

94%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $390k · revenue +76%
  • PB
    PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +44%
  • CS
    COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • BC
    BLAIR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -47%
  • CN
    COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • SC
    SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Aia Colorado

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…

—
2
Colorado Press Association

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…

—
3
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
4
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

—
6
Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights
7
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

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,…

—
8
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
9
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
10
Progressnow Colorado

To promote citizen engagement in the formation of public policy

Education
11
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
12
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Hopes 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/81
the rest of the field
12%
5,308/45,251

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.

05the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 86 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
49/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BELL POLICY CENTER — $336,000 · Civil RightsTHE BELL POLICY CENTERNew Era Colorado Foundation — $166,500 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado FoundationCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE — $60,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT RO…COBALT FOUNDATION — $52,500 · Civil RightsCOBALT FOUNDATIONCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION — $47,500 · Civil RightsCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS CO…COLORADO DEMOCRACY NETWORK — $47,500 · Civil RightsCOLORADO DEMOCRACY NETWORK+6 more — $50,000 · Civil Rights+6 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $626,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOUL…+8 more — $64,500 · Philanthropy+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $389,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COL…GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $45,000 · EducationGREAT EDUCATION C…CIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $37,500 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPAN…+2 more — $6,000 · EducationPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $60,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BRO…COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $52,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO S…LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO COM…THE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FUTURO…Aspen Journalism — $30,000 · Arts & CultureAspen Jour…THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORA…THE SOPRIS SUN INC — $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOPRIS…Fraser Valley Community Media Inc — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 morePROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $80,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESSN…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $55,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY…TOGETHER COLORADO — $45,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER …COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO …WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE — $18,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN C…Good Business Colorado — $14,500 · Community ImprovementGood Busi…+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS — $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST …THE COLORADO INDEPENDENT DBA COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE — $33,000 · OtherTHE COLORADO IN…BLAIR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 · OtherBLAIR COUNTY HI…YOUNG INVINCIBLES — $25,000 · OtherYOUNG INVINCIBL…Lyons Elevating All Fund — $16,000 · OtherIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC — $15,000 · OtherOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $15,000 · OtherCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · OtherCONSERVATION CO…HIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $15,000 · OtherCOLORADO POVERTY LAW PROJECT — $29,500 · OtherCOLORADO POVERT…Western Resource Advocates — $26,500 · OtherWestern Resourc…COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $30,000 · OtherCOLORADO ORGANI…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $15,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 · Other+15 more — $78,500 · Other+15 moreCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $23,500 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT — $12,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER BUILDING BLOCKS FUND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRemerg — $10,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $9,000 · Human ServicesCRESTONE EAGLE COMMUNITY MEDIA — $8,500 · Human ServicesCOLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND — $8,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$760,000Philanthropy$691,000Education$478,000Arts & Culture$286,500Community Improvement$253,000Other$423,500Human Services$137,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $626,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $389,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER — $336,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $166,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetPROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $80,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE — $60,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $55,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION — $47,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO DEMOCRACY NETWORK — $47,500 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetTOGETHER COLORADO — $45,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $45,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $37,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Journalism — $30,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO POVERTY LAW PROJECT — $29,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Times Recorder — $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $23,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE — $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SOPRIS SUN INC — $17,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLyons Elevating All Fund — $16,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGood Business Colorado — $14,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT — $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFraser Valley Community Media Inc — $12,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCOLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER BUILDING BLOCKS FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFocus Reentry — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds New Era Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DEMOCRACY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Aspen Journalism ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO POVERTY LAW PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Times Recorder ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds BLAIR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE SOPRIS SUN INC ↗
  • Who funds Lyons Elevating All Fund ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT ON EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗

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.

Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Women's Foundatio…Merle Chambers FundThe Colorado TrustGates Family Foundati…Gill FoundationCaring for Colorado F…Hopewell Fund
Rose Community FoundationCO82.6× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Merle Chambers Fund · The Colorado Trust · Gates Family Foundation · Gill Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Hopewell Fund

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 Brett 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines