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Gary Philanthropy

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.

$8.5M
Granted FY2023
207
Grants FY2023
15
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.4MHuman Services$3.6MCommunity Improvement$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.9MHealth$1.7MYouth Development$1.6MPublic Benefit$1.3MOther$0
02FY2023 · 207 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 207 grants below total $6,455,861, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,513,776 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,057,915 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k105 grants · $136k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $806k
  • $50k–250k62 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$7,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$191M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Elevation Community Land Trust$300,000
Colorado Children's Campaign$250,000
RTL Foundation$200,000
Colorado Department of Early Childhood$132,000
Colorado Youth for a Change$128,000
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning$126,000
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$125,000
New Era Colorado Foundation$125,000
Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation$112,500
Colorado Children's Campaign$100,000
Trailhead Institute - Colorado Equitable Economic Mobility Initiative$100,000
Cradle to Career Success$100,000
Denver Health Foundation$100,000
Bell Policy Center$100,000
FaithBridge$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sky's the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Lamar Unidos: $2k → 19%Climb Wyoming: $1k → 10%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $200k → 12%Foster Source: $10k → 10%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $500 → 12%Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance: $3k → 7%Weecycle: $50 → 8%The Family Tree: $50 → 7%Freedom Service Dogs Inc: $200 → 8%PCs for People: $252k → 12%Benefits in Action: $3k → 7%Freedom Service Dogs Inc: $40 → 8%Mi Casa Resource Center: $5k → 12%Denver Indian Center Inc: $5k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $95k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $1k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $622 → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $350 → 12%Raise The Future: $500 → 12%Raise The Future: $500 → 12%Raise The Future: $500 → 12%Activate Work Inc: $75k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $185k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $185k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $125k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $50k → 12%Colorado News Collaborative: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 71 repeat orgs$9.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 105 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
133

Total granted

$12M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+42%

Still filing today

85%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EC
    ELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +90%
  • II
    INVEST IN KIDS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $911k · revenue +47%
  • LR
    LA RAZA SERVICES INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $554k · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • UL
    URBAN LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -24%
  • TC
    Tennyson Center for Children
    one grant, 2020 · $425k
  • DP
    Denver Public Safety Youth Programs
    one grant, 2021 · $295k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Aia Colorado

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…

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3
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.

Health
6
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
8
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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9
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
10
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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11
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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12
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Broken Shovels Farm and Sanctuary School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

241 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. 241 of the 319 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
237/241
Grantees still filing
163/241
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $990,000 · OtherCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGNLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $553,500 · OtherLA RAZA SERVICES INCTennyson Center for Children: $425,150 · OtherTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $556,500 · OtherTHE BELL POLICY CENTER+105 more: $7,334,332 · Other+105 moreCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN: $497,700 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLE…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $210,433 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…RTL Foundation: $200,000 · EducationRTL FoundationPARENT POSSIBLE: $158,065 · EducationGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO: $156,000 · EducationColorado Succeeds: $150,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $120,094 · EducationFaithBridge: $100,000 · EducationCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education50CAN INC: $100,000 · EducationNew Legacy Charter School: $100,000 · Education+24 more: $944,750 · Education+24 moreMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $975,344 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UN…Rose Community Foundation: $825,000 · PhilanthropyRose Communi…FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $255,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION F…COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $120,400 · PhilanthropyURBAN LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN LAND …COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE: $365,050 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO FI…Center for African American Health: $287,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for …SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING A BETTER COLORADO: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURPOSE: $95,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $76,000 · Community Improvement+8 more: $209,954 · Community Improvement+8 moreELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $1,301,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT ALLIANCE: $145,000 · Housing & ShelterBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $106,106 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITIES INC: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterINVEST IN KIDS: $911,250 · Youth DevelopmentREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $208,000 · Youth DevelopmentIlluminate Colorado: $100,150 · Youth Development+3 more: $59,250 · Youth DevelopmentEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $545,000 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLE: $252,000 · Human ServicesTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $200,500 · Human ServicesACTIVATE WORK INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $96,085 · Human ServicesJEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS: $90,000 · Human Services+10 more: $111,595 · Human Services
Other$9,859,482Education$2,972,042Philanthropy$2,400,744Community Improvement$2,238,004Housing & Shelter$1,657,106Youth Development$1,498,650Human Services$1,455,180

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $1,301,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetURBAN LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $990,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $975,344 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $911,250 over 2y, 14% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $825,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $556,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $553,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $545,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN: $497,700 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE: $365,050 over 3y, 12% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $297,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSPRING INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING: $291,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FIRM: $290,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $287,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation: $275,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $255,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $220,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetAURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $219,828 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $213,834 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $210,433 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $208,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $200,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRTL Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCouncil for a Strong America: $186,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION: $165,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetACTIVATE WORK INC: $160,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPARENT POSSIBLE: $158,065 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO: $156,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $146,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT ALLIANCE: $145,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization: $138,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $133,333 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO: $133,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION: $130,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetColorado Youth Congress: $125,350 over 1y, 26% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $120,094 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $106,106 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetIlluminate Colorado: $100,150 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFaithBridge: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetBUILDING A BETTER COLORADO: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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.

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.

Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Caring for Colorado F…Gates Family Foundati…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Boettcher FoundationMile High United Way …The Women's Foundatio…Caring for Denver Fou…The Anschutz Foundati…
Rose Community FoundationCO160.7× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Anschutz 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gary Philanthropy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary Philanthropy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 319 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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