· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| COZY COATS FOR KIDS | $5,000 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PROCYON STRONG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOO | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- ARANGEL RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Holmes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holmes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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