· Private foundation
David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLO | $5,200 |
| CONGREGATION SHIR SHALOM | $4,114 |
| AURORA MENTAL HEALTH | $2,080 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,080 |
| JEWISH COLORADO | $2,080 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,100 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC OF COLO | $1,040 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $1,040 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,040 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $1,035 |
| JUDAISM YOUR WAY | $1,030 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $1,000 |
| SHALOM CARES | $520 |
| MARLENE LANDY CANCER FOUNDATION | $520 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +2%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +28%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%
Funded once
EXPERIENCE CAMPSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $525 · revenue +137%- SAShe Angels Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +29%
- DDDHAMMA DENA INCone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
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
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Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marlene F Landy Cancer Foundation. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 70 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds AURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARLENE F LANDY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
- Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
- Who funds LOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds She Angels Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Humphreys Foundation · The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Striker Foundation · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · The Chotin Family 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 David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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.
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