· Private foundation
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.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BVBRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
- BFBetty Ford Alpine Gardens2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
- NINATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME2× · 2017–2018 · $6k
Funded once
- VVVAIL VALLEY MEDICAL CTRone grant, 2017 · $12k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $3k
- STST THERESA'S ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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…
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.
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…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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.
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…
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…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KERALINK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PROJECT EC VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vail Breast Cancer Awareness Group ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds THE WORLD MISSION PARTNERS INC ↗
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: 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
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 Howard & Martha Head 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% 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.
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