· Private foundation
Charles B Israel Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $5,000 |
| ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL | $1,100 |
| ASPEN VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION ASPEN CO | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $750 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER RESEARCH | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $500 |
| WINDWALKERS THERAPY CENTER | $350 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $250 |
| ASPEN HOPE CENTER | $250 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $250 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $250 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $250 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $200 |
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 (FY17–17, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 +87% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +141%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +50%- AHASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2018 · $400 · revenue +87%
Funded once
- RFROARING FORK CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue +27%
- AVASPEN VALLEY HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $650
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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…
The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…
Aces' mission is to inspire a life-long commitment to the earth by providing innovative and immersive programming for all ages.
To support, nourish, and enrich our community by providing informative, entertaining and educational radio and digital programing in a reliable and professional manner.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
Enriching people's lives through the power of music.*producing the finest performances by the greatest artists*fostering music education, and*promoting a life-long appreciation for the arts
The mission of jazz aspen snowmass is to present and preserve jazz and related forms of music through world-class festivals, performances and education programs.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 59 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 MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Aspen Community Theatre ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Arches Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · DJ Schneider Family Foundation Inc · Zanin Family Foundation · Ruth a Carver Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Nm Morris Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Charles B Israel 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.
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.