· Private foundation
Martin & Gloria Trotsky Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COLROAD | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $8,000 |
| THE EFSHAR PROJECT CO CNDC | $7,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| DENVER JEWISH DAYSCHOOL | $5,400 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| HAND CAMP COLORADO | $4,750 |
| EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC COLORADO | $4,500 |
| JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCAT | $3,600 |
| STANLEY BRITISH PRIMARY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| KARIS COMMUNITY | $2,600 |
| THE REALNESS PROJECT | $2,500 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $1,750 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE | $1,250 |
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 (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +62%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +76%
- DJDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- EPEFSHAR PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- PPLATTEFORUMone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -32%
- JJCCone grant, 2021 · $4k
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…
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Provide recreational, cultural, education, and social programs to the community.
Hillel of Colorado seeks to engage, empower, and work with Jewish college students to create Jewish communities at University of Denver, Colorado State University, Auraria Campus, Colorado School of Mines and other front range…
Har Shalom is an active center of Jewish learning and worship serving all of Northern Colorado. We are intentionally non-denominational and egalitarian, serving a wide diversity of spiritual paths. Our synagogue membership of 200+ families…
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Students League of Denver and the most unlike its peers is Upcountry Strong Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDCAMPCOLORADO ↗
- Who funds DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STANLEY BRITISH PRIMARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLATTEFORUM ↗
- Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KARIS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds REALNESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds UPCOUNTRY STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
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 Martin & Gloria Trotsky 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.
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.