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Fisk 5 Foundation at a glance

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Fisk 5 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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$245kArts & Culture$38kHealth$30kYouth Development$20kPhilanthropy$17kCrime & Legal$5kInternational$5kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$953k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) 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%Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $2k → 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 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.

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The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
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Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
3
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
4
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
5
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
7
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Caring for Colorado Foundation

The foundation works to improve the lives of young people and their families in colorado through collaboration, partnership, shared knowledge and grant-making.

Health
9
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
10
Pikes Peak Athletic Foundation
Recreation & Sports
11
Denver Broncos Foundation

The Denver Broncos Foundation is committed to making a positive impact on future generations by creating a "game plan" for life through youth health and wellness initiatives, dynamic in and out of school programming, and access to career…

Philanthropy
12
The Ironman Foundation Inc

To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making; by supporting various athletic, community, education, health, human services and public benefit non-profit organizations around the world.

Philanthropy
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 Elway 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $240,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · EducationNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOU…LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLION GLOBAL F…The Elway Foundation: $10,000 · OtherThe Elway…CITY YEAR INC: $10,000 · OtherCITY YEAR…ONE HIT AWAY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherONE HIT A…St Jude Childrens Research Hospital: $5,000 · OtherSt Jude C…+1 more: $1,000 · OtherPEYBACK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBREES DREAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHILENO BAY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 · HealthBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $5,000 · Crime & LegalJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Education$245,000Arts & Culture$42,500Other$31,000Philanthropy$27,000Health$10,000Crime & Legal$5,000Human Services$2,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Elway Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetPEYBACK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREES DREAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILENO BAY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetONE HIT AWAY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $2,000 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fisk 5 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fisk 5 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s 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 · 0–40%
    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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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