· Private foundation
Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOOTSTRAPS ESBI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STEM GENERATION | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DENVER | $2,500 |
| RESILIENCE 1220 | $2,250 |
| DENVER KIDS INC | $1,500 |
| MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $1,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE ARTS EVERGREEN | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $750 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% 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 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +79%
- CFCenter for the Arts Evergreen Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +27%
- MAMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +39%
- LCLos Cabos Children's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +57%
- CHCASA HOGAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…
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…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
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.
Kipp colorado's mission is to equip our students with the academic skills and character strengths necessary to succeed in college and careers.
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 72 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 THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Center for the Arts Evergreen Inc ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds RAFT(RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING)COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE 1220 INC ↗
- Who funds STEM Generation Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Cabos Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE EVERGREEN ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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