· Private foundation
Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS SCOUTS OF COLORADO | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $45,000 |
| THE EATING DISORDER FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $40,000 |
| HAVERN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER LAMONT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $17,500 |
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC | $10,000 |
| DENVER LYRIC OPERA GUILD | $10,000 |
| DENVER CHILDREN'S CHOIR | $10,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE JAG INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BUNTPORT THEATRE | $6,000 |
| COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% of your 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO6× · 2020–2025 · $258k · revenue +48%
- TEThe Eating Disorder Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +57%
- OCOPERA COLORADO6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +7%
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.
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…
Inspiring youth to musical excellence and artistic expression in a nurturing environment - cultivating integrity, professionalism, and leadership.
The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
To enrich and inspire a broad community through music.
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.
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The mission of dyao is to expose young musicians and audiences to the joy and beauty of symphonic music, pursuing excellence through exceptional orchestral training, unique & diverse performance opportunities, and new pathways to symphonic…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To inspire and connect community members of all ages by providing access to the best of the world's music through education and performance.
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Choir and the most unlike its peers is Bayaud Enterprises Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Eating Disorder Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HAVERN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER LYRIC OPERA GUILD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S CHOIR ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE ↗
- Who funds ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds WONDERBOUND ↗
- Who funds PLATTEFORUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
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 Anschutz Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Ima Foundation · Fine Arts Foundation · Sheila Fortune Foundation Inc
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 Galen and Ada Belle Spencer 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.