· Private foundation
Hoops Family Foundation
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 $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOODWATERORG | $30,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| IMPACT CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GELLI'S COMMUNITY FRIDGE | $5,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $5,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Hoops Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago6× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +52%- BABreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +22%
- DVDEFY VENTURES INC3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- ZLZUMI LTDone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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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.
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Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 IMPACT CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds IMPACT HUB ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOODWATER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sozo International Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds The Denver Institute ↗
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 Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Hoops Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoops Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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