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Gary Magness 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$850,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Gary Magness Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving7$1.0M0%
FY202410$676k20%
FY20234$304k25%
FY20226$1.6M17%
FY202111$2.7M36%
FY202013$1.8M46%
FY201915$1.5M47%
FY201815$1.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$4.5MEducation$1.8MHealth$1.3MInternational$1.1MRecreation & Sports$825kYouth Development$570kArts & Culture$175kHuman Services$115kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
AZ
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gary Magness Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $4,618,097 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $1,400,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $750,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWork to Ride Inc: $550,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetWeld Food Bank: $400,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Art of Elysium: $175,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCareyes Foundation: $160,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Wellness Foundation: $95,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Sentebale Foundation: $85,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetPolo Training Center Santa Barbara: $60,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetThe Buckley School: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnlikely Heroes Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAspen Valley Hospital Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Volunteers: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Samburu Project Inc: $14,250 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWomens International Polo Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSumba Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Foundation for Living Beauty Dba Living Beauty Cancer Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWildlife Warriors USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for AIDS Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Children's Rights: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Lab Science Program: $4,375 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBlood Cancer United 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 25.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Gary Magness Family Foundation

How much does Gary Magness Family Foundation give?
Gary Magness Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,040,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gary Magness Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (43%), Education (17%), Health (13%).
Who are Gary Magness Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Food Bank of the Rockies ($4.6M), Colorado State University Foundation ($1.4M), Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($1.1M).
Does Gary Magness Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gary Magness 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 Gary Magness Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Gary Magness Family Foundation based?
Gary Magness Family Foundation 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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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