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Genesee Mountain 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.

$710k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MPhilanthropy$545kHealth$263kEducation$172kEnvironment$167kCommunity Improvement$142kHuman Services$127kFood & Nutrition$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $278k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $365k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$145,180
COLORADO SYMPHONY$119,984
NEWMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$50,205
COLORADO BALLET$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE$40,925
OPERA COLORADO$30,600
DENVER ART MUSEUM$30,000
DENVER YOUTH ARTISTS ORCHESTRA$27,070
DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION$24,607
DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$21,739
VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST$20,000
VILAR CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$20,000
DENVER BOTANIC GARDEN INC$20,000
BOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT$17,667
ARTISTS STRIVING TO END POVERTY INC$15,450
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%FAMILY TREE INC: $10k → 7%FAMILY TREE INC: $10k → 7%FAMILY TREE INC: $5k → 7%FAMILY TREE INC: $3k → 7%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%FAMILY TREE INC: $2k → 7%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%BESSIE'S HOPE: $500 → 12%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $2k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $2k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $2k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $1k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $1k → 7%RIVER DEEP FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $2k → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $2k → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $2k → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $1k → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $500 → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $500 → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $2k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $2k → 12%BESSIE'S HOPE: $2k → 12%BESSIE'S HOPE: $2k → 12%BESSIE'S HOPE: $2k → 12%BESSIE'S HOPE: $2k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $1k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $1k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $500 → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $500 → 12%BESSIE'S HOPE: $500 → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 55 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
25

Total granted

$3.2M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+47%

Still filing today

78%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +20%
  • CS
    COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $468k · revenue +42%
  • CB
    COLORADO BALLET
    6× · 2019–2024 · $246k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RUSTIC PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $115k · revenue -98% · 38% of their budget
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +61%
  • NC
    NEWMAN CENTER FOR THE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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…

2
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra

The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
4
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
6
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

7
Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts

To inspire and connect community members of all ages by providing access to the best of the world's music through education and performance.

Arts & Culture
8
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
9
Denver Film Society

The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…

Arts & Culture
10
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

11
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Literacy Alliance. 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 FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Mentoring ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Military Veterans SupportImmigrant Worker SupportLocal History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support Services
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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr20%31%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr13%52%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
12%
4,258/35,821

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

74 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 91 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
56/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $700,259 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $468,106 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONCOLORADO BALLET — $245,700 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BALLETDENVER ART MUSEUM — $102,490 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $92,825 · Arts & CultureOPERA COLORADO — $90,205 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History — $70,061 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $151,925 · Arts & Culture+13 moreARVADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS — $170,592 · OtherARVADA COUNCIL FOR THE AR…NEWMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $100,680 · OtherNEWMAN CENTER FOR THE PER…ARVADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES — $95,000 · OtherARVADA COUNCIL FOR THE AR…DENVER YOUTH ARTISTS ORCHESTRA — $69,070 · OtherDENVER YOUTH ARTISTS ORCH…CRAIG CARTWRIGHT MEMORIAL FUND — $35,000 · OtherDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $62,000 · OtherDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS IN…WEDONTWASTE INC — $30,866 · Other+41 more — $357,523 · Other+41 moreSAVUSAVU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $528,000 · PhilanthropySAVUSAVU COMMUN…+4 more — $14,500 · PhilanthropyBOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT — $95,267 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $77,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,000 · HealthCOLORADO HEALTH NETWORK INC — $10,119 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $10,000 · HealthBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION — $9,000 · Health+3 more — $6,500 · HealthWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary — $100,000 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $38,607 · Animals+1 more — $4,000 · AnimalsPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $141,600 · Community ImprovementTHE RUSTIC PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC — $115,119 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $13,000 · Education+2 more — $6,024 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,921,571Other$920,731Philanthropy$542,500Health$262,886Animals$142,607Community Improvement$141,600Education$134,143

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 budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $700,259 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAVUSAVU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $528,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $468,106 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET — $245,700 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $141,600 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RUSTIC PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC — $115,119 over 1y, 38% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $102,490 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary — $100,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT — $95,267 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $92,825 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOPERA COLORADO — $90,205 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $77,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History — $70,061 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $47,015 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTS IGNITE INC — $41,650 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $38,607 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC — $30,866 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPARLANDO INCORPORATED — $26,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridge House — $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $16,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP — $12,363 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HONOR FLIGHT — $10,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH NETWORK INC — $10,119 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBessies Hope — $9,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE — $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO — $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRugby Colorado Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR BELL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL SISTEMA COLORADO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRIVER DEEP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION — $3,024 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
  • Who funds SAVUSAVU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds COLORADO BALLET
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART
  • Who funds THE RUSTIC PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary
  • Who funds BOULDER COUNTY AIDS PROJECT
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC
  • Who funds OPERA COLORADO
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History
  • Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds ARTS IGNITE INC
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC
  • Who funds FAMILY TREE INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC
  • Who funds PARLANDO INCORPORATED
  • Who funds LITERACY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds Bridge House
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC
  • Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC
  • Who funds CENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HONOR FLIGHT
  • Who funds COLORADO HEALTH NETWORK INC

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO56.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na

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 Genesee Mountain 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.

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no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 91 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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