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Dea 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.

$286k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$817kEducation$464kRecreation & Sports$133kEnvironment$132kPublic Benefit$104kScience & Tech$47kFood & Nutrition$44kHealth$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$150,000
CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST$19,600
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$15,000
CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL$15,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER OF CRESTED BUTTE INC$10,000
SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$6,000
CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST$6,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT$5,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER OF CRESTED BUTTE INC$5,000
GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION$3,000
LIVING JOURNEYS$3,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Dea Family Foundation’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.

Dea Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 33 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
17

Total granted

$1.7M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

85%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +28%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +194%
  • WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • P1
    Post 1 Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -55%
  • TW
    THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +49%
  • DB
    D Bell
    one grant, 2023 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
2
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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3
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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4
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
5
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
7
Colorado Farm Bureau

To advance the interest of the colorado farm and ranch community. activities include research and inquiry into the fields of agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, economic and political relations.

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8
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
9
Colorado Mountain Bike Association

COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.

Recreation & Sports
10
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
11
San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment
12
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDenver Community Organizati…Community Arts & RecreationFood Justice & Local Agricu…Fraternal Service Organizat…Healthcare Delivery Organiz…Youth & Community Support S…Community Arts OrganizationsColorado Policy Advocacy Or…Rocky Mountain Regional Org…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%64%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
13%
1,089/8,603

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.

05the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Colorado Museum of Natural History — $710,000 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural HistoryROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $103,750 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC+5 more — $28,750 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSI…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $121,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN …+6 more — $12,450 · EducationWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $82,000 · OtherWESTERN COLORADO UNI…STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO THE COLORADO STATE MUSEUM — $75,000 · OtherSTATE HISTORICAL SOC…Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc — $32,500 · OtherAdaptive Sports Cent…UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTAN…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY — $18,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION…ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC — $22,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLO…+16 more — $58,651 · Other+16 moreCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST — $56,510 · EnvironmentSWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE — $41,000 · EnvironmentGunnison Trails Inc — $5,500 · EnvironmentTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $42,000 · Recreation & SportsCRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL — $34,500 · Recreation & SportsCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION — $8,500 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $3,400 · Recreation & SportsCATTLEMEN'S DAYS INC — $21,500 · Food & NutritionMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT — $21,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,250 · Food & NutritionGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,500 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $8,500 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN HYPERBARIC ASSOC FOR BRAIN INJURIES — $5,000 · HealthSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · HealthLIVING JOURNEYS — $3,000 · HealthCRESTED BUTTE STATE OF MIND — $2,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$842,500Education$383,450Other$323,651Environment$103,010Recreation & Sports$88,400Food & Nutrition$44,250Health$34,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetColorado Museum of Natural History — $710,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $121,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $103,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $82,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST — $56,510 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE — $41,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL — $34,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc — $32,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC — $22,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCATTLEMEN'S DAYS INC — $21,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT — $21,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY — $18,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $11,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPost 1 Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION — $8,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGunnison Trails Inc — $5,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTexas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Geosciences Institute Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HYPERBARIC ASSOC FOR BRAIN INJURIES — $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE SEARCH AND RESCUE INC — $4,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLIVING JOURNEYS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Mountain Bicycling Association — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISS RODEO AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE STATE OF MIND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL RADIO — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCB AVALANCHE CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PRESERVATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERIESFEST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO FREEDOM MEMORIAL FNDTN — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…El Pomar FoundationAnne Lamkin Kinder Fo…Dallas Jewish Communi…The Denver FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Planetary TrustTruettner Family Foun…Rocky Mountain Health…Gates Family Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO38.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Greater Houston Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anne Lamkin Kinder Foundation Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Planetary Trust · Truettner Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Gates 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 Dea 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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