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Innovo 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.

$436k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Environment$2.0MPhilanthropy$572kPublic Benefit$518kCivil Rights$208kCommunity Improvement$115kArts & Culture$110kFood & Nutrition$50kHuman Services$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAN PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATION$200,000
TIDES CENTER$60,000
RESOURCE CENTRAL$30,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$25,000
INDIVISIBLE CIVICS$25,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC$20,000
RACHEL'S NETWORK$10,754
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE$10,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
NEW ERA COLORADO$10,000
THE ALLIANCE FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION$5,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$5,000
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATI$5,000
REALIZE IMPACT$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REALIZE IMPACT: $5k → 10%TRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $12k → 10%WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $2k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%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

AK
VT
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 39 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
77

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+25%

Still filing today

72%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • RC
    RESOURCE CENTRAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $560k · revenue +114%
  • CC
    CONSERVATION COLORADO
    2× · 2017–2022 · $151k · revenue +59%
  • GE
    GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $138k · revenue +256%

Funded once

  • UM
    URBAN MOVEMENT LABS
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue 0% · 25% of their budget
  • CR
    CONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CM
    CAPITAL MAIN
    one grant, 2022 · $87k
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
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
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
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
5
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
8
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
9
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
10
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
11
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Dream Tank. 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

95 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. 95 of the 131 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
61/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESOURCE CENTRAL: $560,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCE CENTRALCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $287,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUNDNEW VENTURE FUND: $150,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $138,000 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC+15 more: $131,150 · Environment+15 moreCLEAN PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATION: $485,000 · OtherCLEAN PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATIONCONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $100,000 · OtherCONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTERCAPITAL MAIN: $86,500 · OtherCAPITAL MAINTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $67,170 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONMARCH ON: $50,000 · Other+64 more: $409,015 · Other+64 moreCONSERVATION COLORADO: $151,000 · Civil RightsCONSERVATION COLO…NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRI…New Era Colorado Foundation: $83,000 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado …THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $55,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICI…TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC: $50,633 · Civil RightsTURNOUT ACTIVISM …THE VOTER PROJECT FUND: $25,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $25,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $25,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $17,000 · Civil RightsURBAN MOVEMENT LABS: $110,000 · Public BenefitURBAN MOVE…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $78,090 · Public BenefitNEO Philan…STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $50,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMO…PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CIT…Ground Game Fund: $30,000 · Public BenefitGround Gam…STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $25,000 · Public BenefitSTATE LEAD…FAIR SHOT TEXAS: $15,000 · Public BenefitAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $70,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $11,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES CENTER: $125,000 · Human ServicesTRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesRESILIENCY LAW CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $8,000 · Human Services+3 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesLocal Reporting Lab Initiative Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,266,650Other$1,197,685Civil Rights$581,633Public Benefit$353,090Philanthropy$195,000Human Services$175,500Arts & Culture$43,000

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 budgetRESOURCE CENTRAL: $560,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $287,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO: $151,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $138,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN MOVEMENT LABS: $110,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation: $83,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $78,090 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $67,170 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNOUT ACTIVISM INC: $50,633 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMARCH ON: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGround Game Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE VOTER PROJECT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Impact: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $23,254 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action: $17,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLocal Reporting Lab Initiative Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFAIR SHOT TEXAS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget350 COLORADO: $13,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $10,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCO LABS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…ImpactassetsincThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Hopewell FundRsf Social Finance IncAEC TrustUnited States Energy …Steiner King Foundati…Amalgamated Charitabl…
Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO48.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · AEC Trust · United States Energy Foundation · Steiner King Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation 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 Innovo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Innovo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
19report 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.

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 131 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home