· Private foundation
David C Hawley 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAINN | $10,102 |
| THE JUNIPER FUND | $7,578 |
| INVEST IN YOUTH | $7,577 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS | $5,051 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT | $5,051 |
| CONNECTIONS | $5,051 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $5,051 |
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 (FY19–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
INVEST IN YOUTH7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +60%- TJTHE JUNIPER FUND7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +162%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SVSOS VENEZUELA - DENVERone grant, 2023 · $7k
- RCREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -10%
- ECEL CENTRO DE LA RAZAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +57%
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.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…
To eliminate hunger in boulder and broomfield counties through engagement, collaboration and leadership.
Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project One Forty Three Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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 INVEST IN YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIPER FUND ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FEEDING COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds Mercer Island Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOS VENEZUELA - DENVER ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds TOP HONORS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ON EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ONE FORTY THREE INC ↗
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 Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Rose Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 C Hawley 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.
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.