· Private foundation
Diamonds in the Rough 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MIZEL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $12,500 |
| JEWISHEXPER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE | $5,181 |
| USSKIANDSNOWBOARD | $5,069 |
| NAVYSEALFOUNDATIONORG | $5,000 |
| DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ADL | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COACHART | $5,000 |
| THANK ISRAELI SOLDIERS | $5,000 |
| MERCY HOUSING | $5,000 |
| CAMP KIND CHABAD OF NW | $1,360 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Diamonds in the Rough Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 27 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC4× · 2018–2023 · $398k · revenue +49%
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +168%- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER3× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- CFCentral Fund of Israelgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +31%
- FOFRIENDS OF WORLD LIKUDone grant, 2023 · $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.
Closest unfunded matches
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How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SWC MUSEUM CORP ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Melina Wachter Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds RADICAL PHILANTHROPIES ↗
- Who funds COACHARTORG ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORWARD DENVER ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation II · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Diamonds in the Rough Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diamonds in the Rough Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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