· Private foundation
Bruce and Phipps Menk 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| STAND UP 2 CANCER | $5,000 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FUND | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $2,200 |
| ST AIDAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,040 |
| KATA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $525 |
| SMALL CHAMPIONS | $500 |
| PROJECT WORTHMORE | $500 |
| DESTINATION IMAGINATION | $500 |
| A PRECIOUS CHILD | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Bruce and Phipps Menk Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +79%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $14k · revenue +32%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES3× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PGPHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONALone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UWUAMS - WP ROCKEFELLERone grant, 2017 · $5k
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +21%
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.
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To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
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How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 70 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION IMAGINATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIVLYME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SMALL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PTA Colorado Congress dba South High School PTSA ↗
- Who funds Wish for Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Western Union Foundation · The Power Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bruce and Phipps Menk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce and Phipps Menk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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