How much does Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation give?

Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $3,907,138 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 91 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (74%), International (8%), Arts & Culture (6%).

Who are Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Dsst Public Schools Foundation ($9.9M), Teach for America Inc ($1.9M), Colorado School of Mines Foundation ($1.4M).

Does Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.

Where is Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation based?

Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation is based in CO.

Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation

Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation

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.

$3.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$17MInternational$1.9MArts & Culture$1.4MCrime & Legal$765kYouth Development$410kEnvironment$272kHealth$248kScience & Tech$229kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $40k
$10k–50k24 grants · $450k
$50k–250k8 grants · $906k
$250k+2 grants · $2.5M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION	$1,980,680
BLUFF LAKE NATURE CENTER	$530,000
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION	$200,000
CASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTI	$200,000
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF	$125,000
DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION	$100,000
PERUVIAN HEARTS	$86,260
DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE	$75,000
LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC	$65,000
RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT	$55,000
MAIA	$40,000
FRIENDS OF DINOSAUR RIDGE	$37,200
FIKA	$33,000
FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE	$30,000
PHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY	$30,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$26M · 73 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$26M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+27%

Still filing today

77%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

Teach for America Inc
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +1%
CS
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +85%
CO
CASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES
8× · 2018–2025 · $960k · revenue +16%

Funded once

OL
OPENWORLD LEARNING
one grant, 2018 · $120k · revenue -39%
YU
YALE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $27k
Feeding Americagraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +40%

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.

Aia Colorado

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…

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Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

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

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

The Attainment Network

The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.

Education

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

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…

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Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 177 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

113/116

Grantees still filing

87/116

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$15,105,380Other$7,271,402Arts & Culture$1,326,000Civil Rights$1,005,000International$930,748Environment$701,500Public Safety & Disaster$650,000

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO72.8× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hugh and Michelle Harvey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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