· Private foundation
Daniels Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k511 grants · $2.9M
- $10k–50k805 grants · $15M
- $50k–250k220 grants · $21M
- $250k+57 grants · $31M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG AMERICANS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,406,662 |
| YOUNG AMERICANS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,800,000 |
| US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $1,750,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750,000 |
| WYO COMPLEX DBA WYO SPORTS RANCH | $1,500,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER | $1,200,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $1,150,000 |
| COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND | $1,000,000 |
| EXCELLENT SCHOOLS NEW MEXICO | $900,000 |
| STEP DENVER | $750,000 |
| SKILLS ENRICHMENT CENTER | $740,000 |
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $700,000 |
| CROSSPURPOSE | $600,000 |
| CHARTER FUND INCORPORATED DBA CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND | $500,000 |
| NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $500,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $17.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Daniels Fund’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.
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.
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 +15% for the ones you funded once.
1281 repeat relationships — 982 still active in FY2024, 299 since wound down; 212 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
- YAYOUNG AMERICANS EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +87% · 89% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +76%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER4× · 2020–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- EMEisenhower Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue +66%
- WCWYO COMPLEXone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2021 · $1.8M · revenue +8%
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.
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,…
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…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Recruiting Classroom. 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 33 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
731 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. 731 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YOUNG AMERICANS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Succeeds ↗
- Who funds MARKETING & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND CURRICULUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Excellent Schools New Mexico ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds WYO COMPLEX ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds HOMEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Anschutz Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King 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 Daniels Fund 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.
- Tools of the Mind — 0% 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.