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Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc at a glance

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Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

77% of Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vail Valley Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $4k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

22
’17
5
’18
1
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$140kArts & Culture$29kEnvironment$16kHealth$14kEducation$10kScience & Tech$6kRecreation & Sports$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME$1,000
SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR$1,000
VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION$1,000
CARMELITE SISTERS OF BALTIMORE$500
COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION$200
COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO$200
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS$150
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 (FY17–17, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $600 → 11%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

NH
NY
IN
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 8 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
26

Total granted

$47k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+39%

Still filing today

63%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BF
    Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +72%
  • CP
    COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $400 · revenue +51%
  • PB
    PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $400 · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • VV
    VAIL VALLEY MEDICAL CTR
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • ST
    ST THERESA'S ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc

The purposes and objectives of the vilar performing arts center is to promote and develop awareness of and appreciation of the arts and to educate the general public about the arts through the ownership and operation of a theater by…

Arts & Culture
2
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
3
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
5
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
6
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…

Arts & Culture
7
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
8
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
9
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
10
The Colorado College

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…

Education
11
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
12
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc; the most unlike its peers is The World Mission Partners Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATIONBRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $20,000 · OtherBRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC F…VAIL VALLEY MEDICAL CTR: $11,600 · OtherVAIL VALLEY MEDICAL CTRNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME: $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL O…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $2,500 · OtherST THERESA'S ACADEMY: $2,000 · Other+14 more: $7,925 · Other+14 moreBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $15,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentTHE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $500 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $400 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $400 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $300 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINS: $500 · EducationLITERACY PROJECT EC VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY: $225 · EducationKERALINK INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 · HealthSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000 · HealthROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $300 · Recreation & Sports
Community Improvement$140,000Other$50,025Environment$15,500Arts & Culture$6,700Education$6,225Health$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,300

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 budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKERALINK INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY PROJECT EC VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY: $225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Breast Cancer Awareness Group: $125 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORLD MISSION PARTNERS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Kelton Family Foundat…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Joyce & Paul Kras…Slifer Family Foundat…Frampton Family Chari…The Winmax Foundation…The Patricia M & H Wi…The Precourt Foundati…Cyril F & Marie O'Nei…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…
Kelton Family FoundationCO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kelton Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Joyce & Paul Krasnow Charitable Foundation · Slifer Family Foundation · Frampton Family Charitable Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Cyril F & Marie O'Neil Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc 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 39 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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