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Fairfield and Woods Foundation at a glance

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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.

$45k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

61% of Fairfield and Woods Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Colorado Gives 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

39
’21
8
’22
7
’23
3
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$28kArts & Culture$20kCrime & Legal$13kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$9kEducation$8kHealth$7kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS ENDOWMENT$10,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM$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
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $1k → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $102 → 12%HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER: $102 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $510 → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $102 → 12%PATRIOTS CARE INC: $51 → 12%SENIOR SUPPORT SERVICES: $1k → 12%SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $102 → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 11 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
34

Total granted

$35k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

73%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • LA
    Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%
  • TK
    THE KEMPE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +71%
  • LA
    LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +127%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +7%
  • SH
    SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -10%
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.

1
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
2
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…

—
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

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.

—
6
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
7
Colorado Bar Association

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,…

—
8
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
9
Denver Bar Association

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…

—
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
11
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

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.

Environment
12
The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
29/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $26,086 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATIONLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,702 · PhilanthropyLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDAT…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $1,547 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $1,172 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,229 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSIVENESS: $6,500 · OtherCENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSIVENESSREBUILDING TOGETHER COLORADO SPRINGS INC: $5,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER COLORADO SPRINGS …DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIO…LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,284 · OtherLATIN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION…THE GATHERING PLACE: $3,525 · OtherTHE GATHERING PLACEPARENT ROCKER ORGANIZATION: $2,500 · OtherPARENT ROCKER ORGANIZATIONSWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $1,224 · OtherINVEST IN KIDS: $1,750 · Other+26 more: $6,709 · Other+26 moreDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEU…COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS: $5,427 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BUSINES…CHERRY ARTS: $625 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $281 · Arts & CultureLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $6,459 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid F…THE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $5,102 · Crime & LegalTHE KEMPE F…DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS ENDOWMENT: $10,000 · EnvironmentDENVER BOT…+1 more: $102 · EnvironmentINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $1,112 · Human ServicesSenior Support Services Inc: $1,020 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $510 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $102 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $102 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $102 · Human Services+1 more: $51 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,291 · Food & NutritionTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $851 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$31,736Other$36,492Arts & Culture$16,333Crime & Legal$11,561Environment$10,102Human Services$2,999Food & Nutrition$2,142

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 budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $26,086 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS ENDOWMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $6,459 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS: $5,427 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $5,102 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,284 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,702 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $1,547 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,291 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $1,224 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $1,172 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $1,162 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $1,112 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Family Assistance Center: $1,081 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO CRISIS SERVICES INC: $1,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaw SchoolYes We Can: $1,020 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSenior Support Services Inc: $1,020 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHERRY ARTS: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $179 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE 2 RESCUE: $102 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF COLORADO: $102 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS BOXER CARE DENVER METRO: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY LEARNING VENTURES: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdaptive Adventures: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOG HAVEN FARM: $102 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR ASSISTANCE CENTER: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOTS CARE INC: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2 BLONDES ALL BREED RESCUE INC: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $26 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Boettcher FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…The Janus Henderson F…Western Union Foundat…Schlessman Foundation…Libertygives Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO56.3× affinity30 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Fairfield and Woods 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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