· Private foundation
Fairfield and Woods 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Fairfield and Woods Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community First Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Fairfield and Woods Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $45k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS | $5,427 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER COLORADO SPRINGS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION - COLORADO GIVES DAY DONATIONS | $3,800 |
| CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSIVENESS | $3,500 |
| LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LEGAL AID FOUNDATION | $2,950 |
| LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,600 |
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 (FY21–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LALegal Aid Foundation of Colorado4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%
- TKTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +71%
- LALATIN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +69%
Funded once
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +127%- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +7%
- SHSWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -10%
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.
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.
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…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
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.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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.
See schedule o.to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals within the state of colorado by:-assisting agencies in the enforcement of laws relating to cruelty and neglect of companion animals and equines-educating the public on animal welfare…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. 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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 59 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
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.
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE KEMPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER COLORADO SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds Northwest Family Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METRO CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Law SchoolYes We Can ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHERRY ARTS ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds HOG HAVEN FARM ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Adventures ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING VENTURES ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Libertygives 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 Fairfield and Woods 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.
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% 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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