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Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust at a glance

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Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$540k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MYouth Development$424kHealth$423kRecreation & Sports$367kAnimals$307kPublic Safety & Disaster$260kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $319k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$17,150
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PA TRUSTEES$100,000
COLORADO ACADEMY$50,000
PHOENIX MULTISPORT$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
NEWPORT JAZZ FOLK FEST FOUNDATION$20,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUBS METRO DENVER$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 14%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $60k → 11%CAN'D AID FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $10k → 4%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $5k → 4%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $61k → 12%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $32k → 12%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $32k → 12%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $25k → 12%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $25k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $10k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $10k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $10k → 12%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $10k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $10k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $1k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $1k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $1k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $1k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $1k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $1k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 72 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
45

Total granted

$6.1M
$533k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+2%

Still filing today

61%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2023 · $537k · revenue +7%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $344k · revenue +194%
  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $282k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CO
    CO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • TP
    THE PARK PEOPLESAVE OUR SUNDIAL
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • AE
    AM ENDOWMENT FNDTN FBO JOBIE PROJEC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

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 Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
International School of Denver

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.

Education
6
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
7
Denver Bar Association

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…

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8
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
9
Alexander Dawson Foundation

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…

Education
10
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
11
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 127 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
50/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF METRO DENVER: $810,000 · OtherYMCA OF METRO DENVERUS AIR FORCE ACADEMY ENDOWMENT FUND: $375,000 · OtherUS AIR FORCE ACADEMY ENDOWMENT FUNDAMERICAN RED CROSS: $246,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSGILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE: $187,500 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS METRO DENVER: $145,000 · OtherSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $133,500 · Other+74 more: $1,787,500 · Other+74 moreDENVER ART MUSEUM: $536,800 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $233,334 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEU…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $164,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPOR…JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $102,150 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWM…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATIO…+8 more: $71,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $344,250 · EducationALLIANCE FOR…New Legacy Charter School: $115,000 · EducationNew Legacy C…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $66,000 · EducationGRALAND COUN…COLORADO ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationCOLORADO ACA…Roaring Fork Schools Foundation: $30,000 · Education+6 more: $60,300 · Education+6 moreYOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $235,000 · Human ServicesBridge House: $145,000 · Human ServicesA LITTLE HELP: $31,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $20,000 · Human Services+9 more: $72,000 · Human ServicesDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $282,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM: $17,500 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $187,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $86,000 · HealthLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $40,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$3,685,000Arts & Culture$1,172,784Education$740,550Human Services$503,000Animals$304,500Philanthropy$207,000Health$176,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $536,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $344,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $282,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $235,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $233,334 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $187,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $164,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBridge House: $145,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $133,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNew Legacy Charter School: $115,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $102,150 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $86,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $66,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY: $40,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSKYLINE SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $39,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetA LITTLE HELP: $31,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRoaring Fork Schools Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER MOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $17,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECT OUR KIDS: $15,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL DBA WORLDDE: $11,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANCE SPORTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHope for Justice Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBallyneal Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Libertygives Foundati…The Janus Henderson F…El Pomar FoundationXcel Energy FoundationBoettcher FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Amg Charitable Gift F…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO55.1× affinity31 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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