· Private foundation
Holmes Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $20,000 |
| CENTAURUS MONARCH COMMUNITY SCOLARSHIP | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PROCYON STRONG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOO | $5,000 |
| COZY COATS FOR KIDS | $5,000 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +17%
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +916%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $44k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- IHI HAVE A DREAM OF BOULDER COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $8k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $7k
- CFCU FOUNDATION ICE HOCKEY PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
To receive and manage gifts of real estate for the benefit of the university of colorado foundation.
The foundation is entrusted to provide support and steward donations for the university of northern colorado.
Lower columbia college foundation's mission is to provide financial support where public funds are not sufficient, and to gather public support for the enhancement of educational opportunities at lower columbia college.
To support the university, its academic programs, and its students, and to foster alumni relations. see schedule o.
To support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
At colorado college our goal is to provide the finest liberal arts education in the country. drawing upon the adventurous spirit of the rocky mountain west, we challenge students, one course at a time, to develop those habits of intellect…
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
College of central florida foundation's mission is to identify, solicit and acquire restricted and unrestricted resources to support the college in providing educational services to citrus, levy and marion counties.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The foundation was established to promote colorado state university-pueblo and account for contributions from the general public for the benefit of the university. the foundation assists with approved fundraising activities, collects…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State Fire Fighters Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cozy Coats for Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROCYON STRONG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HESSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COZY COATS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTAURUS MONARCH SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC ↗
- Who funds DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHN W NICK FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Holmes 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust 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.