· Private foundation
Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $319k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PA TRUSTEES | $100,000 |
| PHOENIX MULTISPORT | $50,000 |
| COLORADO ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $34,000 |
| YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY | $32,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF DENVER | $25,000 |
| US AIR FORCE ACADEMY ENDOWMENT FUND | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $22,500 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS METRO DENVER | $20,000 |
| NEWPORT JAZZ FOLK FEST FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $17,150 |
| GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $357k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM6× · 2017–2023 · $537k · revenue +7%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION7× · 2017–2023 · $344k · revenue +194%
- DZDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $282k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TPTHE PARK PEOPLESAVE OUR SUNDIALone grant, 2017 · $75k
- COCO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k
- AEAM ENDOWMENT FNDTN FBO JOBIE PROJECone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
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 The Nick Bales Btr Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 127 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 DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ↗
- Who funds New Legacy Charter School ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KARIS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift 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 Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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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