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Cross H 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.

$321k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$1.0MRecreation & Sports$315kYouth Development$278kHealth$130kFood & Nutrition$90kHousing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$18kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION$50,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$35,000
COLORADO UPLIFT$30,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$25,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO$25,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$25,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$10,000
PROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL$10,000
ACTIVATE WORK INC$5,000
FIRST TEE OF DENVER$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
DENVER CITY LAX$5,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$5,000
ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $5k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
IA
RI
CA
CO
DC
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Cross H Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Cross H Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 28 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
10

Total granted

$1.7M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • KD
    KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $303k · revenue +93%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $245k · revenue +144%
  • TW
    THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +12%
  • BU
    BRYANT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +18%
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Aia Colorado

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…

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2
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
3
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
4
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
7
Denver Hybrid College

To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.

Education
8
Education Commission of the States

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…

Education
9
Colorado Academy

Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.

Education
10
Western Athletic Conference

The conference is committed to providing student-athletes an exemplary university experience - both on and off the field of play. with high standards of integrity at the core of our athletic and academic excellences, our goal is to unlock…

Recreation & Sports
11
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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12
Alexander Dawson Foundation

The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League 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.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr14%54%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
14%
1,464/10,468

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.

05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $302,500 · EducationKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $245,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $210,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT INCUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $108,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION+5 more — $39,300 · EducationTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $230,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTERN STOCK…DENVER CITY LAX — $55,000 · Recreation & SportsDENVER CITY LAXCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION — $22,500 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO GOLF FOU…CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO — $75,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL …EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUN…St Anne's Episcopal School Inc — $32,500 · OtherSt Anne's Episcopal…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $30,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…Step Denver — $15,000 · OtherYEAR ONE INC — $17,500 · OtherURBAN PEAK DENVER — $20,000 · OtherURBAN PEAK DENVEROPEN DOOR YOUTH GANG ALTERNATIVES — $15,000 · Other+14 more — $66,000 · Other+14 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $235,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERS…+1 more — $4,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $90,000 · Food & NutritionChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $30,000 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL — $20,000 · HealthDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $17,500 · Human ServicesACTIVATE WORK INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Education$905,300Recreation & Sports$307,500Other$341,000Community Improvement$239,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Health$50,000Human Services$27,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $302,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $245,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $235,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $230,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $210,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $108,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX — $55,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHERRY HILLS PALMER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER — $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR ONE INC — $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetStep Denver — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR YOUTH GANG ALTERNATIVES — $15,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetST ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACTIVATE WORK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARION DOWNS CENTER — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHRIS RULE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY HILLS VILLAGE POLICE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Janus Henderson F…The Anschutz Foundati…Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationAmg Charitable Gift F…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Daniels FundIma FoundationThe Colorado Health F…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO29× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Daniels Fund · Ima Foundation · The Colorado Health 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 Cross H 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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