· Private foundation
Frie 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CO INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC LIFE | $1,500 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $1,280 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $1,200 |
| COMMUNITY TABLE | $1,200 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,100 |
| CARIN CLINIC | $1,100 |
| CHILDRENS DIABETES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $1,000 |
| DENVER CATHOLIC WORKER SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| ARVADA CENTER FT ARTS HUMANITIES | $1,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $1,000 |
| CENTRO HUMANITARIO | $800 |
| EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION | $600 |
| FRIENDS OF BROOMFIELD | $600 |
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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
147 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 26 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- JMJUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +1%
- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +44%
- TATHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCIS DE SALES CATH STEM SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $6k
- SFST FRANCES DE SALES CATHOLIC STEM Sone grant, 2020 · $4k
- AVARVADA VINEYARD CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
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…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justfaith Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 268 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds CARIN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ALFONSO MISSION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE PROVIDE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Severe Weather Shelter Network ↗
- Who funds RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CATHOLIC WORKER SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Human Rights Defense Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SCOPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Institute for Public Life ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOMFIELD INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz 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 Frie Family 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.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.