· Private foundation
Fred and Elli Iselin Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k26 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPEN VALLEY SKI CLUB | $20,000 |
| ASPEN YOUTH CENTER | $13,500 |
| STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITU | $10,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE PASS FNDT | $8,750 |
| RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE NTL MNT P | $5,000 |
| LA PUENTE HOME INC | $5,000 |
| EDUC FNDT FOR THE COLO NAT'L GUARD | $5,000 |
| ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANKS OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| YOUTH ZONE | $4,000 |
| ROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AYASPEN YOUTH CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $89k · revenue +81%
- SPSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
- IPINDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AJASPEN JUNIOR HOCKEY INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
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…
Rocky Mountain Field Institute conserves and protects public lands in Southern Colorado through volunteer-based trail and restoration projects, environmental education, and restoration research.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
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,…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
The RFSP works to improve safety for wildlife crossing Colorado Highway 82, focusing on reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions. The initiative specifically addresses wildlife like elk, mule deer,and other animals that get caught in traffic…
Aces' mission is to inspire a life-long commitment to the earth by providing innovative and immersive programming for all ages.
Motivate and enable people to be active stewards of colorado's natural resources.
To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.
Building diverse communities that care for the land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASPEN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTHZONE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING FUND ↗
- Who funds A Way Out Inc ↗
- Who funds BASALT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN JUNIOR HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Castaways Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Alpenglow Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Zanin Family Foundation · Nm Morris Family Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fred and Elli Iselin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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