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Markham 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $339k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $50,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $45,000 |
| HOFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $30,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $27,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $20,000 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT DENVER | $20,000 |
| INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC | $17,000 |
| COLORADO WILD SPORTS GROUP INC | $15,000 |
| SERVANTS OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL INC | $15,000 |
| ADAPTIVE ADVENTURES | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC | $15,000 |
| DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2021–2025 · $207k · revenue +83%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES3× · 2023–2025 · $165k · revenue +16%
- SOServants of Christ International5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LGLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $45k
- AFADOPTIVE FAMILIES COALITIONone grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue -98%
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.
To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Hope & home creates ways for amazing people to change the lives of children in foster care. as a nondenominational christian charity, hope & home trains, certifies, and actively supports foster families across the state of colorado.…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
A family for every child in our lifetime.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Every young person is connected to at least one strong, stable, and caring adult who meets their unique needs.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Realities for Children Charities and the most unlike its peers is Hoffman Family Foundation. 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 24 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 79 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Servants of Christ International ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPTIVE FAMILIES COALITION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WILD SPORTS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Hoffman Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Adventures ↗
- Who funds JACKSON ZINN MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds LIGHTBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL LIGHTBRIDGE INTERNAT ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT K9 HERO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOMFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Heals Inc ↗
- Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation ↗
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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Denver Broncos Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Rose Community 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 Markham 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.
- Brave Beginnings Inc — 100% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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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