How much does David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation give?

David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $121,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Education (10%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc ($397k), Oak Grove School LLC ($31k), Opera Colorado ($24k).

Does David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.

Where is David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation based?

David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation is based in CO.

David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation

David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

David B & Gretchen W Black Family 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.

$122k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$446kEducation$86kArts & Culture$75kRecreation & Sports$61kHousing & Shelter$37kAnimals$29kYouth Development$26kEnvironment$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $62k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$250k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS	$50,000
PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY	$10,100
SO ALL MAY EAT INC	$8,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$6,000
BOULDER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL	$6,000
OJAI YOUTH ENTERTAINERS STUDIO	$6,000
ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES	$5,000
URBAN PEAK	$5,000
ROCK TREE SKY LEARNING CENTER	$5,000
COLORADO SNOWSPORTS MUSEUM	$5,000
OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY	$5,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM	$3,000
ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION	$1,500
COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION	$1,000
HUMANE COLORADO	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$801k · 32 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$801k

$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+19%

Still filing today

63%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

RM
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +38%
OG
OAK GROVE SCHOOL LLC
7× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +22%
OC
OPERA COLORADO
8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +30%

Funded once

OC
OPEN CIRCLE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $5k
PP
PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +19%
RT
Rock Tree Skygraduated
one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +104%

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.

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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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

Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy

Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

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Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development

Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech

Denver Bar Association

To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…

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Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Rock Tree Sky. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$434,700Other$234,875Arts & Culture$62,300Education$37,000Animals$26,400Recreation & Sports$21,500Human Services$17,000

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

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.8× affinity9 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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David B & Gretchen W Black Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home