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Daniels Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,593
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$137MYouth Development$24MHuman Services$20MHealth$18MRecreation & Sports$15MHousing & Shelter$11MCommunity Improvement$10MPhilanthropy$8.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1593 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k511 grants · $2.9M
  • $10k–50k805 grants · $15M
  • $50k–250k220 grants · $21M
  • $250k+57 grants · $31M
$14,091
Median grant
21
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE BILL OF RIGHTS INSTITUTE$500,000
CHARTER FUND INCORPORATED DBA CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND$500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $125k → 3%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $200k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SHERIDAN COUNTY: $500k → 10%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $300k → 9%EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE (ECCLA): $300k → 7%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $175k → 12%SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INCORPORATED: $200k → 12%RIO GRANDE CHILD DEVELOPMENT & FAMILY SERVICES: $250k → 14%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INCORPORATED: $125k → 9%FAMILY TREE INCORPORATED: $225k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE WYOMING INCORPORATED: $175k → 10%FAMILY TREE INCORPORATED: $200k → 7%HIGH COUNTRY SENIOR CITIZENS: $160k → 17%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $200k → 9%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $125k → 11%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $200k → 9%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $125k → 11%RESPONSE: $250k → 6%CLIMB WYOMING: $150k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $125k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $125k → 10%EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE (ECCLA): $300k → 7%RESPITE CARE INCORPORATED: $350k → 11%SECOND CHANCE CENTER: $200k → 10%SECOND CHANCE CENTER: $150k → 10%SECOND CHANCE CENTER: $150k → 10%BRIGHT BY THREE: $200k → 12%TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $150k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREE: $150k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $400k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $350k → 12%JEFFCO HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200k → 7%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $150k → 12%TESSA: $125k → 9%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $150k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $150k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $150k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER INC: $650k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER INC: $250k → 12%LARADON HALL SOCIETY FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $150k → 12%ADVANCE: $1.5M → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $300k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $200k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $250k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $250k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INCORPORATED: $715k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INCORPORATED: $225k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INCORPORATED: $200k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Daniels Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Daniels Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219M · 1307 repeat orgs$57M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

1307 repeat relationships: 994 still active in FY2024, 313 since wound down; 251 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1307
424

Total granted

$219M
$42M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+19%

Still filing today

32%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YA
    YOUNG AMERICANS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +87% · 89% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +76%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue +66%
  • WC
    WYO COMPLEX
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M · revenue +6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
The Peak School

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…

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
Lehigh University

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…

Education
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
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
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Fielding Graduate University

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

736 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. 736 of the 2,000 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.

48
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
163
Early backer (in before they grew)
726/736
Grantees still filing
523/736
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - BOULDER: $4,524,880 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - BOULDERCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,445,660 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $3,339,872 · OtherCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $2,738,105 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $2,911,000 · Other+87 more: $63,002,429 · Other+87 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,419,983 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,523,755 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $3,871,000 · EducationUS Chamber of Commerce Found…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $3,181,167 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCA…NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $2,710,000 · EducationNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC…Colorado Succeeds: $2,375,000 · EducationExcellent Schools New Mexico: $2,346,257 · EducationColorado Christian University: $2,081,361 · Education+35 more: $21,038,508 · Education+35 moreYOUNG AMERICANS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,032,433 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG AME…Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $1,075,300 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gi…FULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentFULLMER L…INVEST IN KIDS: $700,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC: $600,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $775,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVANCE INC: $1,557,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC: $1,180,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $971,265 · Human ServicesACTIVATE WORK INC: $800,000 · Human ServicesBridge House: $750,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $600,000 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $515,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $500,409 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Center Inc: $500,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $500,000 · Human ServicesSheridan County Young Mens Christian Association: $500,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC: $481,100 · Human Services+12 more: $4,334,082 · Human ServicesEisenhower Medical Center: $5,000,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $1,850,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $939,263 · HealthNEW BEGINNING RECOVERY CENTER INC: $450,000 · HealthA Way Out Inc: $400,000 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $380,000 · Health+7 more: $2,293,715 · HealthUTAH'S PROMISE: $1,786,100 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,110,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO SCHOOLS FUND: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $800,805 · PhilanthropyVELA EDUCATION FUND: $750,000 · PhilanthropyNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $640,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $630,000 · PhilanthropyMONTE VISTA COMMUNITY FUND INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTEAM UP: $500,000 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $400,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $325,000 · PhilanthropyWYO COMPLEX: $2,000,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $1,250,840 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $800,000 · Recreation & SportsCHANCE SPORTS: $762,838 · Recreation & SportsAthletics & Beyond: $700,104 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $325,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $300,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$79,961,946Education$47,547,031Youth Development$16,182,733Human Services$13,788,856Health$11,312,978Philanthropy$10,966,905Recreation & Sports$6,138,782

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG AMERICANS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,032,433 over 4y, 89% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,419,983 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $5,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,523,755 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $3,871,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $3,181,167 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $2,911,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $2,710,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE: $2,407,774 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $2,375,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetMARKETING & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND CURRICULUM CENTER: $2,356,365 over 4y, 50% of budgetExcellent Schools New Mexico: $2,346,257 over 4y, 84% of budgetColorado Christian University: $2,081,361 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $2,060,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetWYO COMPLEX: $2,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $1,850,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,800,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWISE INC: $1,800,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $1,786,100 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetADVANCE INC: $1,557,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetStep Denver: $1,510,759 over 3y, 28% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $1,402,264 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $1,338,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBill of Rights Institute: $1,300,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS: $1,270,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,265,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $1,250,840 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,225,830 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,225,480 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,186,139 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $1,180,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $1,136,649 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,110,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budget50CAN INC: $1,095,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $1,075,300 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,065,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget5280 HIGH SCHOOL: $1,025,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOLS FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $971,265 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $960,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $939,263 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $922,211 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGoodwill of Colorado: $809,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $800,805 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Anschutz Foundati…Anschutz Family Found…The Colorado Health F…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Caring for Colorado F…Colorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationGates Family Foundati…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationAdolph Coors Foundati…Kenneth Kendal King F…
The Anschutz FoundationCO136.4× affinity91 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Daniels Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniels Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Tools of the Mind: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
83report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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