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Catalyst 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NDSU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $55,059 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ACCESS OPPORTUNITY | $35,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB COLORADO | $30,000 |
| TOMMY SPAULDING LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CLAUDIO CAMPAIGN | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI | $5,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- NDNorth Dakota State University Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $589k · revenue +78%
- CHCraig Hospital5× · 2017–2021 · $78k · revenue +43%
- AOACCESS OPPORTUNITY4× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- BCBEN Colorado Incone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -9%
- HLHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +183%
- SJST JOSEPHS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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…
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…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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…
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,…
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
The nonprofit boulder chamber is the region's flagship business advocacy and support organization. with almost 120 years of dedicated service to our members and the boulder community, the boulder chamber's innovative programs help local…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Denver Junior Golf. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 80 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 North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CIVICO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEN Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER JUNIOR GOLF ↗
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 · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF · Community Foundation Boulder County · El Pomar Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Catalyst 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.
- Year Up Inc — 0% 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.