How much does Frie Family Foundation give?

Frie Family Foundation reported 106 grants totaling $37,932 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 109 and 129 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.

What does Frie Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Education (19%), Health (11%).

Who are Frie Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Justfaith Ministries Inc ($32k), Holy Family High School Inc ($10k), Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc ($9k).

Does Frie Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Frie Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Frie Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.

Where is Frie Family Foundation based?

Frie Family Foundation is based in CO.

Frie Family Foundation

Frie Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frie Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k

Granted FY2026still arriving

106

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$46kEducation$46kHealth$26kArts & Culture$23kFood & Nutrition$17kCivil Rights$12kHousing & Shelter$12kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0

02FY2026 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$60k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JUST FAITH MINISTRIES	$6,100
FRIENDS OF BROOMFIELD	$2,110
ARVADA CENTER FT ARTS HUMANITIES	$2,000
COMMUNITY TABLE	$1,600
COLORADANS FT COMMON GOOD	$1,500
COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO	$1,280
Individual grant recipient	$1,200
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$1,100
CARIN CLINIC	$1,100
SAN ALFONSO MISSION	$1,000
RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN	$1,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE	$1,000
DENVER CATHOLIC WORKER SOUP KITCHEN	$1,000
CHILDRENS DIABETES FOUNDATION	$1,000
CENTRO DE LOS TRABAJADORES	$800

02The need

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 (FY20–26, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$240k · 160 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

160 repeat relationships: 91 still active in FY2026, 69 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160

103

Total granted

$240k

$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+11%

Still filing today

54%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

JM
JUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC
6× · 2020–2026 · $32k · revenue +1%
PB
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC
7× · 2020–2026 · $9k · revenue +44%
TA
THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE
7× · 2020–2026 · $9k · revenue +39%

Funded once

SF
ST FRANCIS DE SALES CATH STEM SCHOOL
one grant, 2021 · $6k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2025 · $5k
SF
ST FRANCES DE SALES CATHOLIC STEM S
one grant, 2020 · $4k

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.

Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Center for Improving Value in Health Care

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…

Health

Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement

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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Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy

Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

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…

Civil Rights

Colorado Health Institute

Health

The Colorado Health Foundation

Health

Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal

Education Commission of the States

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…

Education

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

Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justfaith Ministries Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 282 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

121/122

Grantees still filing

82/122

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$159,644Religion$32,050Arts & Culture$25,042Education$21,730Health$21,525Food & Nutrition$13,350Crime & Legal$8,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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 FoundationCO68× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

42report 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.

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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