· Private foundation
Frank Pernell 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE ACRE FUND | $7,000 |
| SUDU INC | $6,000 |
| HORIZONS AT COLORADO ACADEMY | $6,000 |
| ROSE ANDOM CENTER | $5,000 |
| A CHILDS NOTEBOOK | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $5,000 |
| COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $3,000 |
| MATTHEWS HOUSE | $3,000 |
| GLOBAL CONNECTIONS | $3,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN VICTIM LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| THE CONFLICT CENTER | $2,000 |
| GOLDEN CRESCENT CASA | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Frank Pernell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RAROSE ANDOM CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +117%
- OAONE ACRE FUND8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +258%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- CCOVAone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
- EHEqualize Health Formerly D-Revone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -100%
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.
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.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Global Strategies empowers communities in the most neglected areas of the world to improve the lives of women and children through healthcare.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Our mission is to bridge the world of business and the world of people in extreme poverty, and to support vulnerable communities with health, education and other essential services
Mothers Without Borders is dedicated to fostering resilience and self-sufficiency in developing countries through a holistic approach to community empowerment, particularly focusing on the most vulnerable women, youth, and children. Our…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Project milk mission is at the forefront of a vital mission - reducing infant mortality rates by championing breastfeeding, with a special focus on supporting low-income african american mothers. through comprehensive services spanning the…
Amani Global Works ("Amani") was formed to develop and implement a comprehensive, inclusive and sustainable model for the provision of healthcare and related services to underserved rural communities in Africa. Amanis mission is to save…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds THE CONFLICT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICROFINANCING PARTNERS IN AFRICA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AFRICARE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE GRETTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds A Childs Notebook ↗
- Who funds NavajoStrong ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds Sudu Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN VICTIM LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev ↗
- Who funds FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Kettering Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank Pernell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank Pernell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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