· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND | $10,000 |
| NEBRASKA STATEWIDE ARBORETUM INC | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN RECREATION FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SAINT ALBERT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $4,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - CHABAD VAIL | $3,600 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| CUES FUND | $2,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +97%
Funded once
- LGLAURITZEN GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $14k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF HOUSTONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- EEEVRF - EAGLE VALLEY RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $300
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gross Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gross Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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