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Gardner Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
- $250k+1 grant · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSPURPOSE | $321,000 |
| CITYUNITE | $77,778 |
| STAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC DBA BEYONDHOME | $31,000 |
| MILE HIGH WORKSHOP INC | $25,000 |
| WORKWELL | $22,222 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION DBA ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $11,000 |
| THE DENVER INSTITUTE DBA DENVER INSTITUTE FOR FAITH AND WORK | $10,000 |
| CRU | $6,000 |
| EXECUTIVES PARTNERING TO INVEST IN CHILDREN (EPIC) | $5,000 |
| HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| ALL IN FOSTERING FUTURES INC | $1,037 |
| HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO | $1,000 |
| ACTS4 COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES DBA LOVE INC OF LITTLETON | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 66% 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.
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 +94% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- CCROSSPURPOSE6× · 2019–2024 · $781k · revenue +236%
- CCITYUNITE6× · 2019–2024 · $556k · revenue +31% · 44% of their budget
- HHHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO5× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- OTOUTSIDE THE BOWLone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- AWACTIVATE WORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +166%
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.
Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
To empower the unemployed and those with barriers to employment to become self-supporting through job preparation and placement.
To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Hope & home creates ways for amazing people to change the lives of children in foster care. as a nondenominational christian charity, hope & home trains, certifies, and actively supports foster families across the state of colorado.…
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.
The organization collectively works alongside those on the margins to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and support in east portland.
The mission of Project 1.27 is to engage, inspire, recruit and resource churches and families to serve children in our community through faith-based family preservation, kinship care, foster care and adoption.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope House of Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Outside the Bowl. 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 30 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 CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds CITYUNITE ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds The Denver Institute ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mile High Workshop Inc ↗
- Who funds WORKWELL ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE THE BOWL ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE WORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) ↗
- Who funds All In Empowering Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds Dream Makers Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION ↗
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: Gary Philanthropy · The Anschutz Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Daniels Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gardner 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.
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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