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Gamez Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$69k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
78%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 78% of the organizations Gamez Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$69k90%
FY20239$124k78%
FY20205$48k80%
FY20173$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$84kHuman Services$77kAnimals$57kInternational$15kFood & Nutrition$15kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$34,00020%
The Senior Hub Inc$29,0001n/a
Denver Zoological Foundation$20,00010%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$19,73020%
The Wild Animal Sanctuary$19,00020%
Adams County Emergency Food Bank$14,75013%
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged$9,00610%
Good Shepherd Catholic Parish$8,8251n/a
Old Dogs New Digs$8,00018%
The Ladybug Fund Inc$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Gamez Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$34,00020%
The Senior Hub Inc$29,0001n/a
Denver Zoological Foundation$20,00010%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$19,73020%
The Wild Animal Sanctuary$19,00020%
Adams County Emergency Food Bank$14,75013%
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged$9,00610%
Good Shepherd Catholic Parish$8,8251n/a
Old Dogs New Digs$8,00018%
The Ladybug Fund Inc$5,0001n/a
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado$5,00010%
Garden of the Gods Foundation$5,00010%
Paragon Service Dogs$5,00010%
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative$5,00010%
National Fire Safety Council Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gamez Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Zoological Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $19,730 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdams County Emergency Food Bank: $14,750 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged: $9,006 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOld Dogs New Digs: $8,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetVolunteers for Outdoor Colorado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGarden of the Gods Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParagon Service Dogs: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetColorado Fourteeners Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Fire Safety Council Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 FoundationCO18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Gamez Family Foundation Inc

How much does Gamez Family Foundation Inc give?
Gamez Family Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $69,021 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gamez Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Human Services (28%), Animals (20%).
Who are Gamez Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($34k), The Senior Hub Inc ($29k), Denver Zoological Foundation ($20k).
Does Gamez Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gamez Family Foundation Inc 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 Gamez Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Schlessman Foundation Inc.
Where is Gamez Family Foundation Inc based?
Gamez Family Foundation Inc is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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