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Fireside 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.

$429k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$388kCommunity Improvement$289kHealth$205kEnvironment$184kHuman Services$152kReligion$105kRecreation & Sports$52kInternational$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIT$259,752
Fabretto Childrens Foundation$40,311
Court Sports 4 Life$23,333
Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust$20,000
Yampa Valley Community Foundation$17,500
Lift Up Routt County$15,000
Nope's Island Concervation Association$12,000
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Foundation$10,000
Refugee One$7,500
Sandy Hook Promise$6,000
Jeffco Open Space Foundation$3,000
Strings Music Festival$3,000
The Colorado Sun$3,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$2,330
Routt County Search and Rescue$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NPX Charitable: $75k → 10%Lift Up Routt County: $15k → 6%Lift Up Routt County: $15k → 6%Hands of the Carpenter: $75k → 7%Warren Village: $2k → 12%Lift Up Routt County: $15k → 6%Hands of the Carpenter: $15k → 7%Lift Up Routt County: $5k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
MA
IA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
TN
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Fireside Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 14%.

Fireside Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 20% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$894k · 29 repeat orgs$587k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
29

Total granted

$894k
$511k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+44%

Still filing today

72%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • R
    REFUGEEONE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +190%
  • SA
    SparkHope Automotive
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +46%
  • LU
    Lift Up of Routt County
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • C
    CROSSPURPOSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +73%
  • MK
    MIT Koch Institute
    one grant, 2024 · $128k
  • SR
    South Routt School District RE-3
    one grant, 2024 · $81k
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
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
2
Boulder Watershed Collective

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…

Environment
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
4
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
5
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…

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6
Yampatika

Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.

Environment
7
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
8
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
9
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
10
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
11
Routt County Economic Development Partnership

The purpose(s) of the Partnership is to improve the quality of life and economic well-being across Routt County by: (i) enabling business and job retention to increase employment and improve the public welfare, (ii) promoting and assisting…

Community Improvement
12
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Npx Charitable Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rivanna Trails Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIT: $263,252 · OtherMITMIT Koch Institute: $127,780 · OtherMIT Koch InstituteSouth Routt School District RE-3: $80,650 · OtherSouth Routt School District RE-3Individual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $40,311 · OtherYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $43,500 · Other+44 more: $208,473 · Other+44 moreSparkHope Automotive: $90,000 · Human ServicesSparkHope Automo…NPX CHARITABLE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesNPX CHARITABLE I…Lift Up of Routt County: $50,000 · Human ServicesLift Up of Routt…+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesCROSSPURPOSE: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURPOS…REFUGEEONE: $94,500 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionThe Breakthrough Institute: $50,000 · EnvironmentNopes Island Conservation Association Inc: $18,000 · EnvironmentTHE WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION: $7,000 · EnvironmentJEFFCO OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · EnvironmentYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL: $3,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $56,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $2,330 · Food & Nutrition
Other$838,966Human Services$217,500Community Improvement$150,000Religion$95,500Environment$87,000Youth Development$82,500Food & Nutrition$58,330

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 budgetCROSSPURPOSE: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $94,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $90,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $56,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLift Up of Routt County: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Breakthrough Institute: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $43,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $40,311 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNopes Island Conservation Association Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetECHINACEA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSpark Ventures: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSEMINARS AT STEAMBOAT: $9,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetONEGOAL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEFFCO OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUTT COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRoutt County Humane Society: $5,650 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROUTT COUNTY RIDERS: $4,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Sun: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $2,330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $1,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $1,636 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRALA MOUNTAIN CENTER Formerly Shambhala Mountain Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR RI SOUTH COUNTY INC: $384 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…Gates Family Foundati…Craig-Scheckman Famil…Tatar Family Foundati…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationSteve and Kelly Bloom…The Chicago Community…The Colorado TrustAnschutz Family Found…Xcel Energy Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO38.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · Tatar Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Steve and Kelly Bloom Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Colorado Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Fireside Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fireside Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fireside Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fireside 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 68 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home