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Fie Family 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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$427kHuman Services$278kHousing & Shelter$83kHealth$48kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$500Philanthropy$250
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUGUSTANA LUTHERAN CHURCH$160,000
SALVATION ARMY$40,151
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
COLORADO ACADEMY$10,000
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION$1,000
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,000
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$1,000
DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$500
SHANNON FOUNDATION$500
TUNNEL 2 TOWERS$500
Individual grant recipient$250
GUARDIAN ANGELS PARISH$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SHANNON FOUNDATION: $500 → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$858k · 17 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$858k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+63%

Still filing today

53%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationMembership BenefitOther
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

  • CA
    COLORADO ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +54%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +42%
  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • PL
    PRAIRIE LAKES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +63%
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
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Children's Hospital Colorado Health System

to manage the investment of funds on behalf of Children's Hospital Colorado ("Hospital") and Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ("Foundation").

Health
4
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
5
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…

Health
6
Glendale Memorial Health Foundation

Provide direct services to the poor and advocate on their behalf and create partnerships that improve community health.

Health
7
Seattle Children's Foundation

Seattle children's foundation exists to improve the quality of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents through contributions to organizations providing health care services, research and education.

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8
Set of Colorado Springs

S.e.t. of colorado springs is made up of a small multi-skilled staff and a large corps of volunteers, including many in the medical professions. s.e.t. of colorado springs collaborates with other care-givers in the pikes peak area to teach…

—
9
Dominican Hospital Foundation

The mission of the dominican hospital foundation is to ensure that philanthropic resources are available to respond to and support the changing health care needs of the people within the area served by dignity health dba dominican…

Health
10
Shriners Hospital for Children
Philanthropy
11
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation

Support the work of the denver health and hospital authority in its mission to sustain and advance the health and well-being of denver, colorado and the rocky mountain region.

—
12
St Joseph's Foundation

To raise funds and provide support services for patient care, medical education, community outreach, research, and care for those in need at dignity health, dba st. joseph's hospital and medical center.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Shannon Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 25 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUGUSTANA LUTHERAN CHURCH: $424,302 · OtherAUGUSTANA LUTHERAN CHURCHSALVATION ARMY: $261,653 · OtherSALVATION ARMYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $72,999 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY+12 more: $18,500 · OtherChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $30,578 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthCOLORADO ACADEMY: $32,814 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Shannon Foundation: $4,000 · Human ServicesSMALL CHAMPIONS INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesThe Denver Children's Foundation: $1,000 · Human ServicesSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $7,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$777,454Health$36,078Education$34,314Human Services$16,500Membership Benefit$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $32,814 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $30,578 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shannon Foundation: $4,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL CHAMPIONS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE LAKES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds The Shannon Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMALL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Denver Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE LAKES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Fie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fie Family 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–10%
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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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