· Private foundation
J Landis and Sharon Martin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL | $900,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $835,000 |
| SIGLER WESTERN MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| DENVER ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $8,500 |
| COLORADO OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| ALS UNITED ROCKY MOUNTAIN | $1,000 |
| MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $500 |
| COLORADO ACADEMY | $258 |
| ST ANNES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $951k 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
Northwestern University8× · 2018–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +33%- GCGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $852k · revenue +37%
- DCDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +311%
Funded once
- TWThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +38%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +17%
- PSPADDINGTON STATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +86%
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 mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Academy and the most unlike its peers is Rino Gives Back. 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 50 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) — 4% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 34 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ST ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL ↗
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- Who funds DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rino Gives Back ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds DENVER FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RINO ART DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PADDINGTON STATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED ROCKY MOUNTAIN ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ART GARAGE ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
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 · The Colorado Health Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Caulkins Family Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
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 J Landis and Sharon Martin 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.
- St Anne's Episcopal School — 0% 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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