· Private foundation
Gardner 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSPURPOSE | $100,000 |
| CITYUNITE | $58,000 |
| STAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO | $12,100 |
| CRU | $8,000 |
| ALL IN FOSTERING FUTURES INC | $5,000 |
| BEYOND HOME | $4,500 |
| SECOND CHANCE BIKE | $1,140 |
| REVIVE CHURCH | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $783 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCROSSPURPOSE7× · 2019–2025 · $881k · revenue +236%
- CCITYUNITE7× · 2019–2025 · $614k · revenue +123% · 44% of their budget
- HHHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO6× · 2019–2025 · $177k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- OTOUTSIDE THE BOWLone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -32%
- AWACTIVATE WORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +166%
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.
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.
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…
To empower the unemployed and those with barriers to employment to become self-supporting through job preparation and placement.
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.
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.…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.
We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.
The WorkWell Partnership operates a four-week job training program consisting of training and counseling, with qualified trainers, mentors, and advocates helping to prepare formerly incarcerated citizens for employment that can be…
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.
Foster America works with communities and governments to strengthen the systems that support children, youth, and families - so families can access help earlier, with dignity, trust, and connection, and without unnecessary child welfare…
Work options for women helps people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary training.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds CITYUNITE ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Denver Institute ↗
- Who funds Mile High Workshop Inc ↗
- Who funds WORKWELL ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE THE BOWL ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE WORK INC ↗
- Who funds All In Empowering Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) ↗
- Who funds Dream Makers Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gardner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gardner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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