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Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust No 2

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.

$543k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL WESTERN CENTER$100,000
DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$50,000
KENT DENVER SCHOOL$33,333
JUDI'S HOUSE$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
BOTANICAL GARDENS$25,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM$25,000
YMCA OF METRO DENVER$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOODOF THE ROCKY MOUN$20,000
NAVY SEALS FOUNDATION$15,000
ROSE ANDOM CENTER$15,000
CATTLEMAN'S AGRICULTURE TRUST$15,000
SALISBURY SCHOOL$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROJECT SAGE: $10k → 9%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.
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 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
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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2
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
3
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
4
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
5
Denver Research Institute

The denver research institute was established for the purpose of providing medical research and educational programs related to advancing the research mission of the veterans affairs medical center in denver, co.

Health
6
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
7
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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8
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
9
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…

Housing & Shelter
10
Driehaus Design Initiative
Arts & Culture
11
Denver Police Foundation

To act as an independent and unique funding and advocacy resource for the denver police department to enhance public safety and law enforcement in the denver community.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kent Denver Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is The Corner Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL WESTERN CENTER: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL WESTERN CENTERDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONJUDI'S HOUSE: $30,000 · OtherJUDI'S HOUSEBOTANICAL GARDENS: $25,000 · OtherBOTANICAL GARDENSIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOODOF THE ROCKY MOUN: $20,000 · OtherYMCA OF METRO DENVER: $20,000 · OtherSALISBURY SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherCATTLEMAN'S AGRICULTURE TRUST: $15,000 · Other+9 more: $90,000 · Other+9 moreDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHI…KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $33,333 · EducationKENT DENVER COUNT…DENVER ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT SAGE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$390,000Education$83,333Arts & Culture$40,000Crime & Legal$15,000Human Services$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $33,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust No 2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust No 2. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 25 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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