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El Pomar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
116
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$7.0MScience & Tech$6.5MHuman Services$5.9MRecreation & Sports$4.9MHealth$3.5MArts & Culture$2.9MYouth Development$2.7MAnimals$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 116 grants below total $3,365,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,546,032 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,180,832 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $235k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $811k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $570k
  • $250k+7 grants · $1.8M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$468M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Colorado Springs Sports Corporation$250,000
Colorado State Fair Foundation$250,000
Colorado State Fair Foundation$250,000
Colorado State Fair Foundation$250,000
Colorado State Fair Foundation$250,000
Colorado Springs World Arena$250,000
Colorado Springs Sports Corporation$250,000
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra$185,000
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra$185,000
Denver Rescue Mission$50,000
Council of State Governments - West$50,000
Council of State Governments - West$50,000
Council of State Governments - West$50,000
American Prairie Foundation$35,000
Care and Share, Inc.$25,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lift Up of Routt County: $10k → 6%Bright Futures: $70k → 7%Summit County Family Resource Center: $10k → 9%Rural Communities Resource Center: $10k → 13%The Pinon Project: $30k → 15%Loaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County: $50k → 17%Mount Carmel Health Wellness and Community Center: $25k → 18%Bright Futures: $60k → 7%Bakhita Mountain Home Inc: $10k → 9%Creede Early Learning Center: $20k → 9%Morgan County Family Center Inc: $40k → 12%Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care: $10k → 15%The Pinon Project: $20k → 15%Spanish Peaks Community Foundation Inc: $10k → 19%Bright Futures: $50k → 7%Archuleta Seniors Inc: $10k → 10%Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care: $10k → 15%Family Resource Center: $15k → 15%The Pinon Project: $20k → 15%Mount Carmel Wellness and Community Center: $10k → 18%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $10k → 10%Archuleta County Victim Assistance Program Inc: $10k → 10%Loaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County: $30k → 17%Mount Carmel Wellness and Community Center: $10k → 18%Mount Carmel Health Wellness and Community Center: $10k → 18%Summit County Child Care Resource & Referral Agency: $20k → 9%Loaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County: $25k → 17%Early Childhood Council of the San Luis Valley: $25k → 17%Mount Carmel Health Wellness and Community Center: $10k → 18%Community of Caring Foundation: $10k → 8%Pioneers Healthcare Foundation Inc: $25k → 10%Sharing Ministries Inc: $25k → 12%Eagle Valley Family Assistance Fund: $20k → 7%House of Neighborly Service: $15k → 11%Alternatives to Violence Inc: $15k → 11%Young Women's Christian Association of Pueblo: $20k → 15%Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc: $500k → 9%Catholic Charities Diocese of Pueblo Inc: $15k → 15%Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc: $30k → 9%The Place: $29k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $20k → 9%Interfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs: $18k → 9%The Place: $12k → 9%The Place: $12k → 9%TESSA: $16k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $20k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $13k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
OK
GA
TX
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 14% of El Pomar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

El Pomar 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 496 repeat orgs$8.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

496 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2024, 430 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

496
856

Total granted

$36M
$7.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+31%

Still filing today

79%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • US
    United States Space Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6.5M · revenue +452% · 88% of their budget
  • CS
    COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +94% · 32% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.7M · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • AF
    Air Force Academy Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $503k
  • G
    GLOBALMINDEDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +154% · 45% of their budget
  • ER
    EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue +28%
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.

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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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2
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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3
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
4
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
7
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…

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8
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
9
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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10
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
11
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
12
Destination Colorado Meetings

a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Western Civilization Foundation. 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

1032 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1032 of the 1,388 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)
339
Early backer (in before they grew)
998/1032
Grantees still filing
757/1032
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United States Space Foundation: $6,525,655 · EducationUnited States Space FoundationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,668,717 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $1,025,719 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE+24 more: $2,393,470 · Education+24 moreCity of Colorado Springs: $740,770 · OtherCity of Colorado SpringsAir Force Academy Foundation: $502,500 · OtherCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,198,554 · OtherCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYCOLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA: $830,174 · OtherCOLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENAMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $499,855 · Other+95 more: $7,854,478 · Other+95 moreTHE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $1,057,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORA…Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra: $674,749 · Arts & CultureColorado S…CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $351,279 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL CI…ACCESS AFTERSCHOOL: $260,000 · Arts & CultureACCESS AFT…COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $165,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $118,336 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $623,789 · Arts & Culture+9 moreCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $1,644,579 · Human ServicesCOLORADO …BRIGHT FUTURES: $180,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FU…Loaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County Inc: $117,500 · Human ServicesThe Place: $102,135 · Human Services+15 more: $813,999 · Human Services+15 moreCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $2,116,336 · Recreation & SportsColorado Springs Youth Sports Complex Inc: $282,529 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY CONFERENCE: $109,026 · Recreation & Sports+5 more: $287,863 · Recreation & SportsChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $631,307 · HealthCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $157,500 · HealthPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $147,106 · HealthSummitstone Health Partners: $134,302 · HealthNORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $90,000 · HealthCommunity Coalition for Families and Children: $88,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP (CHP): $75,000 · HealthDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $70,170 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation: $65,000 · HealthTHE COLORADO MISSION OF MERCY: $65,000 · HealthVALLEY-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $63,671 · Health+5 more: $222,500 · HealthPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $411,801 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK UNITED WAY: $182,375 · PhilanthropyMONTE VISTA COMMUNITY FUND INC: $158,500 · PhilanthropyPOLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $138,622 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $135,000 · PhilanthropyGAZETTE CHARITIES: $72,296 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK OR BUST RODEO FOUNDATION: $67,504 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $67,500 · Philanthropy+7 more: $315,921 · Philanthropy
Education$11,613,561Other$11,626,331Arts & Culture$3,251,153Human Services$2,858,213Recreation & Sports$2,795,754Health$1,810,056Philanthropy$1,549,519

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Space Foundation: $6,525,655 over 2y, 88% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $2,116,336 over 4y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,668,717 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $1,644,579 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,198,554 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $1,057,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $1,025,719 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA: $830,174 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetColorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra: $674,749 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $631,307 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $499,855 over 3y, 17% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $411,801 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $386,747 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $351,279 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetColorado Springs Youth Sports Complex Inc: $282,529 over 3y, 70% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC: $281,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPueblo Community College Foundation: $268,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetACCESS AFTERSCHOOL: $260,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $253,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGLOBALMINDED: $200,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetExponential Impact: $189,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetCASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC: $188,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPIKES PEAK UNITED WAY: $182,375 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES: $180,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $170,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $165,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetYOUTHENTITY: $160,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH: $160,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMONTE VISTA COMMUNITY FUND INC: $158,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $148,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $147,106 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $145,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $138,622 over 2y, 33% of budgetHome Front Military Network: $135,641 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $135,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $135,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSummitstone Health Partners: $134,302 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County: $124,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $121,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $118,336 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLoaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County Inc: $117,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY CONFERENCE: $109,026 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES GROUP: $107,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $106,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $105,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPUEBLO CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT: $105,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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.

Anschutz Family Found…Pikes Peak Community …The Colorado Health F…The Joseph Henry Edmo…Rocky Mountain Health…Caring for Colorado F…Av Hunter Trust Incor…Colorado Springs Heal…The Colorado TrustPikes Peak United WayColorado Gives Founda…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…
Anschutz Family FoundationCO220× affinity234 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anschutz Family Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Gives Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Generation Teach Inc: 42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
86report 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
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 1388 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $20M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home