· Private foundation
Caulkins 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP | $50,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $20,000 |
| CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION ISLAND SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB METRO DENVER | $12,500 |
| GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $6,000 |
| COLORADO BALLET | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA DENVER | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| PHILIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER | $2,778 |
| CHRIST CHURCH OF DARK HARBOR | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 11 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- CFCENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +21%
- SGST GEORGE'S SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $103k · revenue +24%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION6× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- WPWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +75%
- SESOUTHWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +9%
- RCRedline Contemporary Art Centerone grant, 2020 · $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.
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…
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc and the most unlike its peers is Islesboro Affordable Property. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 114 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 CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LINKS TRUST ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Logan School For Creative Learning ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds ISLESBORO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT 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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Johnson Foundation of the Rockies · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Records Johnston Family Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado 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 Caulkins 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.
- Newark Symphony Orchestra Inc — 12% 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.