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Demuth 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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$132kHealth$65kYouth Development$35kFood & Nutrition$32kEmployment$11kHuman Services$10kCivil Rights$8kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$407k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CSU Foundation$15,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$10,000
Girl Scouts of Colorado$10,000
Family Intercultural Resource Center$10,000
Mental Health Center of Denver$5,000
Denver Public Library Foundation$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Womens Bean Project$4,000
Second Wind Fund$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Family Intercultural Resource Center: $10k → 9%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 65% of Demuth Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 28%.

Demuth Family Foundationlessmore 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$230k · 8 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$230k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHuman 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

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +58%
  • DP
    DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • BF
    BRIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $23k
  • MH
    Mental Health Center of Colorado
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • DP
    DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
6
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…

Arts & Culture
7
Colorado Health Institute
Health
8
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
9
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
10
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
11
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Colorado. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION+1 more: $2,000 · EducationBRIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $23,000 · OtherBRIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATIONMental Health Center of Colorado: $12,000 · OtherMental Health Center of Colo…DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS: $10,000 · OtherDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIEND…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG AMERICAN CENTER: $8,000 · OtherYOUNG AMERICAN CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDenver Public Library Foundation: $5,000 · OtherDenver Public Library Founda…Rocky Mtn Repertory Theater: $3,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS …FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $32,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK O…Mental Health Center of Denver: $25,000 · HealthMental Hea…BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT…WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $11,000 · EmploymentSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$119,000Other$78,000Youth Development$35,000Food & Nutrition$32,000Health$28,000Employment$11,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationSchlessman Foundation…The Colorado TrustTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…The Janus Henderson F…The Colorado Health F…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Colorado Trust · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Demuth Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Demuth Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Demuth Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Demuth Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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