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· Private foundation

Burgess R & F Tuw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$483kEducation$75kOther$297k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$30,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM INC$30,000
COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$20,000
SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$10,000
METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$8,000
COLORADO BACH ENSEMBLE$5,000
DENVER BRASS INC$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE: $10k → 7%COLORADO BACH ENSEMBLE: $5k → 8%COLORADO SPRINGS PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 9%A CHILD'S SONG INC: $5k → 10%BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $10k → 12%COLORADO YOUTH MARIACHI PROGRAM: $10k → 10%AUGUSTANA ARTS INC: $8k → 12%COLORADO YOUTH MARIACHI PROGRAM: $8k → 10%AUGUSTANA ARTS INC: $8k → 12%AUGUSTANA ARTS INC: $6k → 12%CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE: $15k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA: $10k → 12%WONDERBOUND: $10k → 12%DENVER BRASS INC: $8k → 12%DENVER BRASS INC: $8k → 12%WONDERBOUND: $6k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER THEATRE: $60k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER THEATRE: $30k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER THEATRE: $30k → 12%COLORADO SEMINARY: $30k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER THEATRE: $30k → 12%SAINT JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 12%SAINT JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $12k → 12%SAINT JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 12%SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%CMDANCE: $6k → 12%LEVITT PAVILION DENVER: $15k → 12%LEVITT PAVILION DENVER: $8k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $18k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM INC: $35k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM INC: $32k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM INC: $30k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM INC: $29k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM INC: $23k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM INC: $21k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM INC: $15k → 12%COLORADO BALLET COMPANY: $10k → 12%CURIOUS THEATER COMPANY: $10k → 12%BUNTPORT THEATRE COMPANY: $8k → 12%CURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY: $8k → 12%COLORADO YOUTH SYMPHONY: $7k → 12%DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING: $6k → 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.

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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$736k · 15 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$736k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

73%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +38%
  • CS
    COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $108k · revenue +42%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    2× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CP
    CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CB
    COLORADO BALLETgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • CS
    CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%

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
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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2
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Music Bridge

Colorado nbsp;music nbsp;bridge nbsp;provides nbsp;access nbsp;to nbsp;inclusive nbsp;modern nbsp;music nbsp;education nbsp;programs nbsp;curricular nbsp;resources nbsp;and nbsp;professional nbsp;development

Arts & Culture
4
Denver Young Artists Orchestra Association

The mission of dyao is to expose young musicians and audiences to the joy and beauty of symphonic music, pursuing excellence through exceptional orchestral training, unique & diverse performance opportunities, and new pathways to symphonic…

Arts & Culture
5
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts

To inspire and connect community members of all ages by providing access to the best of the world's music through education and performance.

Arts & Culture
7
Denver Children's Choir

To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.

Arts & Culture
8
Opera Colorado

Opera colorado uses the powerful art form of opera to connect our community through musical storytelling. the company actively collaborates with other non-profit institutions to amplify their missions with the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
San Juan Symphony

The San Juan Symphony is an innovative regional orchestra that contributes to the cultural enrichment of the diverse communities of the Four Corners area with inspiring live performances and creative, collaborative efforts.

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10
Colorado Mahlerfest

Advancement of music through the celebration of the legacy of the composer Gustav Mahler through an annual festival

Arts & Culture
11
Denver Philharmonic Orchestra

To continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music

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12
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company

Boulder ensemble theatre company creates powerful, engaging, top-quality performances and programs, with meaningful impacts beyond the stage. we serve and welcome colorado's many diverse communities, cultivating an inclusive environment…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Swallow Hill Music Association and the most unlike its peers is Denver Art Museum. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr17%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr17%67%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
697/5,562

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DENVER ART MUSEUM — $185,382 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $107,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONWONDERBOUND — $36,000 · Arts & CultureWONDERBOUNDAUGUSTANA ARTS INC — $26,000 · Arts & CultureAUGUSTANA ARTS INCFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DENVER — $23,000 · Arts & CultureCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY — $17,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO YOUTH MARIACHI PROGRAM — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $70,500 · Arts & Culture+12 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER THEATRE — $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER THEATRESAINT JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $46,757 · OtherSAINT JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYTHE DENVER BRASS INC — $21,000 · OtherTHE DENVER BRASS INCCLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE — $14,500 · OtherCOLORADO YOUTH SYMPHONY — $12,000 · OtherSWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION — $11,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF — $11,000 · Other+7 more — $31,000 · Other+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE — $10,000 · EducationCREATIVE …A CHILDS SONG INC — $5,000 · EducationA CHILDS …
Arts & Culture$483,382Other$297,257Education$75,000

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 budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $185,382 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $107,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWONDERBOUND — $36,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAUGUSTANA ARTS INC — $26,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DENVER — $23,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DENVER BRASS INC — $21,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY — $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH MARIACHI PROGRAM — $17,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetSWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCMDANCE — $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUNTPORT THEATER COMPANY — $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO BACH ENSEMBLE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetA CHILDS SONG INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetColorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSU TEATRO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Bonfils-Stanton Found…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Fine Arts FoundationSheila Fortune Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Kenneth Kendal King F…Amg Charitable Gift F…Merle Chambers Fund
Colorado Gives FoundationCO42.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Fine Arts Foundation · Sheila Fortune Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Merle Chambers 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 Burgess R & F Tuw 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 36 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.

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