· Private foundation
Emsa Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $369k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALICE FRANKLIN EMSA FUND INC ADVISED FUND | $184,720 |
| ANDREW AND AUDREY FISHMAN FRANKLIN DONOR ADVISED FUND | $184,720 |
| ONE PA ACTIVISTS UNITED | $25,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER | $25,000 |
| LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND INC | $20,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $20,000 |
| ISAIAH | $20,000 |
| GROUND GAME FUND | $20,000 |
| 9 TO 5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN | $15,000 |
| BOULDER JCC | $10,064 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TOMORROW WE VOTE | $10,000 |
| NEW DISABLED SOUTH | $10,000 |
| YWCA OF BOULDER COUNTY | $3,134 |
| ARTNAUTS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
176 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 173 since wound down; 13 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +4%
- MTMOTUS THEATER2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue +2%
- WDWOMEN DONORS NETWORK2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- GAGA Alliance Education Fundone grant, 2021 · $50k
- JJewishcoloradoone grant, 2021 · $35k
- ACARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +139%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
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…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mother House Dba Haven Ridge. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 312 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds ONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds MOTUS THEATER ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Ground Game Fund ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FLUX PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Farmers Markets Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING CENTER ↗
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.
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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 Emsa Fund Inc 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.
- Friends of the Vergennes Opera House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vergennes Partnership Inc — 37% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
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.
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