· Private foundation
Hugh and Michelle Harvey 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $486k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $897k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,904,500 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTI | $150,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $125,000 |
| DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PERUVIAN HEARTS | $92,170 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $75,000 |
| RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT | $55,000 |
| DONORSCHOOSE | $50,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC | $50,000 |
| MAIA | $40,000 |
| ACCESS GALLERY | $40,000 |
| BLUFF LAKE NATURE CENTER | $35,000 |
| BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY | $33,332 |
| FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 16 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
Teach for America Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +1%- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +85%
- COCASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES7× · 2018–2024 · $760k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- OLOPENWORLD LEARNINGone grant, 2018 · $120k · revenue -39%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $27k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +40%
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.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
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 provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wis Teq Neemit. 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 31 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 — 0.9% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 170 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 DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds PERUVIAN HEARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds PHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MAIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DINOSAUR RIDGE ↗
- Who funds BLUFF LAKE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPENWORLD LEARNING ↗
- Who funds POSNER CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ACCESS GALLERY ↗
- Who funds IN COLORADO INITIATIVE FOR INCLUSIVE HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DARING GIRLS ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPLOYMENT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Redline ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc
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 Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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