· Private foundation
Gross Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B'NAI VAIL CONGREGATION | $40,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $10,000 |
| NEBRASKA STATEWIDE ARBORETUM INC | $10,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND | $10,000 |
| SAINT ALBERT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $4,000 |
| MOUNTAIN RECREATION FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - CHABAD VAIL | $3,600 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $2,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CUES FUND | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL | $600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NSNEBRASKA STATEWIDE ARBORETUM HANNA PINNEO9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +24%
- VVVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $69k · revenue +71%
- BFBetty Ford Alpine Gardens8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LGLAURITZEN GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $14k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF HOUSTONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- EEEVRF - EAGLE VALLEY RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $300
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The mission of the access fund is to lead and inspire the climbing community toward sustainable access and conservation of the climbing environment.
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…
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.
Advancing sustainability in the western area of the united states through a series of programs and activities designed to promote better ranching practices. a strong focus is to provide ranchers with the information, tools, technical…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
The national forest foundation, chartered by congress, engages americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million acre national forest system, and accepts and administers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NEBRASKA STATEWIDE ARBORETUM HANNA PINNEO ↗
- Who funds Vail Valley Charitable Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Mountain Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gross Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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