· Private foundation
Charitable Foundation of the Estate Helen J Wallace
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLO FNDTN | $1,750 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $1,000 |
| ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST VRAIN VA | $455 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 16% of Charitable Foundation of the Estate Helen J Wallace’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +23%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +115%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +40%
- CNCOLORADO NATIVE PLANT SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +120%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +43%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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.
To protect, conserve, and restore colorado's native wildlife and habitats. we champion science-based, innovative, collaborative solutions for managing colorado's iconic wildlife and biodiversity, protecting them from threats like habitat…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Advancing sustainability in the western area of the united states through a series of programs and activities designed to promote better ranching practices. a strong focus is to provide ranchers with the information, tools, technical…
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds ENDANGERED LANGUAGE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS CHAMBER CHOIR ↗
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 · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charitable Foundation of the Estate Helen J Wallace funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charitable Foundation of the Estate Helen J Wallace. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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