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Eze 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.

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Human Services$324kHealth$155kYouth Development$92kPublic Benefit$85kArts & Culture$70kEducation$60kInternational$51kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,200
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLIES GUYS$15,000
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF THE ROCKIES$10,350
ST JUDES$10,000
A PRECIOUS CHILD INC$8,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$7,000
MAYO CLINIC-DIANE RICE$6,000
A PRECIOUS CHILD INC$5,517
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,200
TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOUSE$5,200
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS$5,000
JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT$5,000
LUKES WINGS$5,000
COLORADO UPLIFT$5,000
STEP DENVER$2,600
COLORADO UPLIFT$2,150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CHARLIES GUYS: $15k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOUSE: $15k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CHARLIES GUYS: $15k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOUSE: $10k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $8k → 5%CHARLIE'S GUYS: $10k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOUSE: $10k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $8k → 5%CHARLIES GUYS: $10k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOUSE: $10k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $8k → 5%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CHARLIE'S GUYS: $10k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $8k → 5%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CHARLIES GUYS: $10k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $8k → 5%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CHARLIES GUYS: $5k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOUSE: $5k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $6k → 5%CHARLIES GUYS: $5k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$890k · 37 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
6

Total granted

$890k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+2%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • CG
    CHARLIES GUYS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +15% · 27% of their budget
  • LP
    Leadership Program of the Rockies
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +60%
  • CU
    COLORADO UPLIFT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • VV
    VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -6%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +2%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Denver Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of denver, inc. is that we provide essential services that remove barriers for families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
4
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
7
Partnership for Children

To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.

Human Services
8
Colorado Children's Campaign

The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…

9
Invest in Kids

Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.

Youth Development
10
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
11
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
12
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlies Guys. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild and Family ServicesCommunity Arts OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesVeteran Support ServicesGovernment Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health CentersCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%19%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,392

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCLUKES WINGS — $35,000 · OtherLUKES WINGSJUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT — $23,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHEIVEMENTTENNYSON CENTER — $20,000 · OtherTENNYSON CENTERTHE SALVATION ARMY - NAPLES — $16,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - NAPLESTHE SALVATION ARMY - DENVER — $16,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - DENVERCHILDRENS HEALTH DEFENSE FUND — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $14,000 · OtherCOLORADO ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITY — $10,100 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherICAN — $10,000 · OtherMANHATTAN YOUTH CENTER — $10,000 · OtherTRACY AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $10,000 · Other+8 more — $34,720 · Other+8 moreCHARLIES GUYS — $80,000 · Human ServicesCHARLIES GUYSA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $79,849 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INCTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME — $50,404 · Human ServicesTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN …ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,302 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEA…+1 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesHAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION — $47,500 · HealthHAYESTOUGH FO…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION — $15,238 · HealthBRENT ELEY FO…LUKE'S WINGS — $12,500 · HealthLUKE'S WINGSChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $8,053 · HealthChildren's Ho…+1 more — $3,156 · HealthCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $47,772 · EducationCOLORADO U…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $21,000 · EducationALLIANCE F…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationHILLSDALE …THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE — $4,200 · EducationLeadership Program of the Rockies — $69,513 · Public BenefitLeadership…INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE — $13,051 · Public BenefitINDEPENDEN…Mercury One Inc — $36,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $15,155 · InternationalNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $39,500 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTOGETHER WE RISE — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$298,320Human Services$239,555Health$111,447Education$87,972Public Benefit$82,564International$51,155Arts & Culture$49,500Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARLIES GUYS — $80,000 over 7y, 27% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $79,849 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Program of the Rockies — $69,513 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME — $50,404 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $47,772 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $39,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercury One Inc — $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,302 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION — $15,238 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $15,155 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE — $13,051 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUKE'S WINGS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $8,053 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE — $4,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $3,156 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStep Denver — $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CHARLIES GUYS
  • Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC
  • Who funds Leadership Program of the Rockies
  • Who funds TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME
  • Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC
  • Who funds HAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Mercury One Inc
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
  • Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE
  • Who funds LUKE'S WINGS
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE
  • Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
  • Who funds THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE
  • Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Bruce Benson Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation

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 Eze Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Eze Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eze 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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