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Denise Shea Malcolm Family Foundation at a glance

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Denise Shea Malcolm 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$136kEducation$110kHealth$29kEnvironment$5kAnimals$3kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$130k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$15,000
MACALESTER$15,000
ASPEN COMM SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND$2,500
ASPENOUT$1,500
RIPLEY WATERFOWL CONSERVANCY$1,000
WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER$250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MACALESTER: $15k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 13%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 10%TAFT PARENTS FUND: $10k → 9%CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $10k → 4%ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $5k → 6%SHINING STARS FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%ASPENOUT: $2k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MACALESTER: $15k → 14%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 10%TAFT PARENTS FUND: $10k → 9%ASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 6%SHINING STARS: $500 → 7%MACALESTER: $10k → 14%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%TAFT PARENTS FUND: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 → 6%SHINING STARS: $500 → 7%MACALESTER: $10k → 14%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%BARNARD COLLEGE: $5k → 17%KENT FUND: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 → 6%MACALESTER: $10k → 14%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%KENT FUND: $1k → 9%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF SCHOOL IN THE SQUARE: $25k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $3k → 6%FORMAN SCHOOL: $5k → 9%ASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $2k → 6%RIPLEY WATERFOWL CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%ASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 6%WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER: $1k → 9%ASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 6%ASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 6%ASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 6%ASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $15k → 6%ASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10k → 6%ASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $3k → 6%ASPEN COMM SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $3k → 6%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.
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.
$186k · 10 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$186k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+32%

Still filing today

50%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +33%
  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +453%
  • AY
    ASPEN YOUTH CENTER
    5× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SCHOOL IN THE SQUARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +56%
  • CI
    CURREY INGRAM ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +57%
  • BARNARD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +32%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
4
Colorado Academy

Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Twin Peaks Charter Academy

The organization provides students with a rigorous education and the foundations of virtue and character, while building cultural literacy through a content-rich curriculum in an encouraging environment.

Education
8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Academy Charter School

Academy charter school (the "school") was formed in 1993 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school.

Education
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forman School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ripley Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
18/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MACALESTER: $60,000 · OtherMACALESTERTAFT PARENTS FUND: $30,000 · OtherTAFT PARENTS FUNDASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $27,500 · OtherASPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLKENT FUND: $6,000 · OtherFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $6,750 · OtherFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $29,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANF…FRIENDS OF SCHOOL IN THE SQUARE INC: $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF SCHOOL IN THE SQUARE INCCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationCURREY INGRAM ACADEMYBARNARD COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 · HealthCHILD MIND …TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · HealthTOURETTE AS…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 · HealthChildren's …Pathfinders: $2,500 · HealthPathfindersASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER: $2,000 · EnvironmentASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $1,750 · AnimalsSHINING STARS FOUNDATION: $500 · Recreation & SportsTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$135,250Education$104,750Health$28,500Environment$7,000Youth Development$6,500Animals$1,750Recreation & Sports$500Arts & Culture$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $29,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCHOOL IN THE SQUARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $6,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPathfinders: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHINING STARS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $100 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.

Hrd-C FoundationAspen Community Found…The New York Communit…Colorado Gives Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Hrd-C FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hrd-C Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Denise Shea Malcolm Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denise Shea Malcolm Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 26 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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