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Gates Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36M
Granted FY2025still arriving
374
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$90MSocial Science$40MEnvironment$18MHealth$7.2MArts & Culture$6.7MCommunity Improvement$6.2MHuman Services$3.7MHousing & Shelter$3.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 374 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $206k
  • $10k–50k231 grants · $5.6M
  • $50k–250k91 grants · $6.7M
  • $250k+7 grants · $24M
$25,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$424M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$20,000,000
CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$2,000,000
LYRA$550,000
ROOTED$400,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$383,333
COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND$300,000
RIVER NETWORK$250,000
COLORADO WATER TRUST INC$200,000
RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TR A COL$200,000
ELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$200,000
AMERICA SUCCEEDS$150,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO$150,000
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATI$150,000
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUN$150,000
WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION I$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $25k → 3%LIFT UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $30k → 6%GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%HOLYOKE COMMUNITY CHILDCARE INITIAT: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY OF CARING FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%Kindred Kids Child Advocacy Center Inc: $35k → 17%First Southwest Community Fund: $50k → 17%SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 19%Npx Charitable Inc: $50k → 10%COMMUNITY OF CARING FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%NPX Charitable Inc: $25k → 10%FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 17%Npx Charitable Inc: $25k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHES MINISTRIES OF FRE: $25k → 17%FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 17%SOLID ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO: $75k → 9%START UP COLORADO: $40k → 12%STARTUP COLORADO: $35k → 12%ERIK HITE FOUNDATION: $55k → 15%Mi Casa Resource Center: $30k → 12%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $50k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $30k → 9%ERIK HITE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 15%BRIDGE HOUSE: $40k → 12%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $50k → 15%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $40k → 8%ERIK HITE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 15%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $35k → 8%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $40k → 15%STARTUP COLORADO: $55k → 11%STARTUP COLORADO: $35k → 11%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $35k → 15%WEECYCLE: $50k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CENTER: $70k → 10%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $50k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $50k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $40k → 12%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%Adoption Exchange (The): $30k → 8%PCS FOR PEOPLE: $40k → 12%Family Resource Center Association Inc: $45k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO I: $30k → 12%ADVANCE INC: $35k → 12%DENVER INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SER: $75k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $50k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $65k → 12%Healthy Childcare Colorado: $100k → 12%THRIVING FAMILIES: $35k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$171M · 356 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

356 repeat relationships — 208 still active in FY2025, 148 since wound down; 112 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

356
481

Total granted

$171M
$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13M · revenue +22%
  • CM
    CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +75%
  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.3M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • GC
    Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine
    one grant, 2020 · $2.3M
  • GG
    Gates Grubstake Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M
  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
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
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
4
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education
6
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
7
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
8
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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9
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
10
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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Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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12
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Gates Biomanufacturing Facility Sup Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Addiction Recovery ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Construc…Lgbtq+ Community SupportDance Arts OrganizationsSenior Support ServicesCommunity Food PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringSchool Parent OrganizationsYouth Sports ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Ymca Youth DevelopmentVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Immigrant Worker SupportMilitary Veterans SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesYouth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library OperationsYouth Development ServicesLocal History MuseumsChristian Youth CampsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity FoundationsSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%6%<5yr15%15%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr13%57%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%7/719
the rest of the field
13%
4,361/32,698

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

678 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. 678 of the 974 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
175
Early backer (in before they grew)
665/678
Grantees still filing
424/678
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $44,620,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $12,925,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $7,250,000 · EducationCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOLThe Thacher School Inc — $4,250,000 · EducationLYRA — $2,892,500 · Education+39 more — $10,943,589 · Education+39 moreGATES INSTITUTE — $39,780,000 · OtherGATES INSTITUTEGates Center for Regenerative Medicine — $2,322,745 · Other+96 more — $25,172,038 · Other+96 moreRIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST — $2,515,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS — $695,000 · EnvironmentMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY — $591,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $535,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $380,466 · EnvironmentWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE — $380,000 · EnvironmentKEYSTONE CENTER — $360,000 · EnvironmentWATER FOUNDATION — $300,000 · Environment+17 more — $2,810,000 · EnvironmentWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $3,450,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $1,155,707 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $634,754 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $270,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $190,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $690,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $660,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS — $462,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER — $363,965 · Arts & CultureArtspace Projects Inc — $325,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER CIVIC ARTS FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Arts & CultureRANCHO LOS CERRITOS FOUNDATION — $185,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureTREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION — $155,000 · Arts & CultureLatino Leadership Institute — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $525,000 · Arts & CultureRose Community Foundation — $1,636,105 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO SCHOOLS FUND — $550,000 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $315,000 · PhilanthropyLONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $307,500 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $230,000 · PhilanthropyBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION — $125,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $101,704 · PhilanthropyChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $2,250,000 · HealthTHE COLORADO PREVENTION CENTER — $500,000 · HealthDUEKER RANCH INC — $150,000 · HealthSOCIETY OF METABOLIC HEALTH PRACTITIONERS INC — $149,000 · Health+1 more — $100,000 · Health
Education$82,881,089Other$67,274,783Environment$8,566,466Recreation & Sports$5,700,461Arts & Culture$3,890,965Philanthropy$3,265,309Health$3,149,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $44,620,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $12,925,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $7,250,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $4,250,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $3,450,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetLYRA — $2,892,500 over 6y, 100% of budgetROOTED — $2,590,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetRIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST — $2,515,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $2,250,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $1,700,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $1,636,105 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation — $1,250,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $1,155,707 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $952,074 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGATES BIOMANUFACTURING FACILITY SUP FOUNDATION — $925,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO — $745,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY — $700,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCOLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS — $695,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $690,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $660,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LAND CONSERVANCY — $640,246 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $634,754 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY — $591,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOLS FUND — $550,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $535,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO PREVENTION CENTER — $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING — $490,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS — $462,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS — $435,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $380,466 over 3y, 12% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE — $380,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetMontbello Organizing Committee — $375,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCOLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $365,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER — $363,965 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKEYSTONE CENTER — $360,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $350,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMoonshot edVentures — $340,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $325,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetArtspace Projects Inc — $325,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $315,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $307,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $305,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRISE COLORADO — $298,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION — $290,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $270,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LYRA ↗
  • Who funds ROOTED ↗
  • Who funds RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Aurora Public Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Gates Grubstake Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GATES BIOMANUFACTURING FACILITY SUP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BICYCLE COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA SUCCEEDS ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO PREVENTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗

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.

The Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Anschutz Family Found…Boettcher FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Caring for Colorado F…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…Kenneth Kendal King F…Daniels FundThe Colorado Trust
The Colorado Health FoundationCO154.8× affinity201 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Trust

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 Gates 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
79report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Gates Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gates Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 974 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home