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Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $55,250 |
| PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $34,630 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $32,500 |
| CENTURY 190 | $24,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $22,000 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | $21,250 |
| ADAMS STATE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER | $11,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER | $11,000 |
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO COLO SPRINGS | $10,750 |
| CENTRAL 6 | $8,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY | $3,750 |
| PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE | $3,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 15 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
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
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +39%
- RUREGIS UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +5%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER2× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- C3CORINTHAIN 35one grant, 2023 · $21k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO COLO SPGSone grant, 2019 · $14k
- CCCRIPPLE CREEK 96one grant, 2018 · $9k
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.
To promote the general welfare and development of the metropolitan state university of denver.
Rocky mountain college educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
To provide post-secondary undergraduate and graduate education.
Colgate university's mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers and their…
Concordia university nebraska's mission is to be an excellent academic and christ-centered community equipping men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and the world. we primarily do this by providing…
Central college is a private liberal arts institution dedicated to the four year undergraduate experience.
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
To combine the liberal arts and professional preparedness through an interdisciplinary curriculum.
To create a space where students can develop intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Regis University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
4 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. 4 of the 185 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.
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: Roof F T Char · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association 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.
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