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Martin & Gloria Trotsky Foundation at a glance

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Martin & Gloria Trotsky Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$70kHuman Services$69kEducation$49kPhilanthropy$29kCommunity Improvement$19kArts & Culture$17kRecreation & Sports$12kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHALOM PARK: $3k → 8%SHALOM PARK: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$216k · 17 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$216k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+6%

Still filing today

53%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +62%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +76%
  • DJ
    DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • EP
    EFSHAR PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • P
    PLATTEFORUM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -32%
  • H
    HADASSAH
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
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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2
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
Jewish Community Centers of Denver

Provide recreational, cultural, education, and social programs to the community.

Human Services
5
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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…

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6
Congregation Har Shalom

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…

Religion
7
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
9
Denver Academy of Torah

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…

Education
10
Colorado Bar Association

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,…

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11
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
12
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

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,…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Students League of Denver; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 38 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANUEL: $28,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE EFSHAR PROJECT CO CNDC: $19,220 · OtherTHE EFSHAR PROJECT CO CNDCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTEREFSHAR PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherEFSHAR PROJECTCU FOUNDATION - JEWISH STUDIES: $6,100 · Other+19 more: $49,350 · Other+19 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $45,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERV…SHALOM PARK: $4,500 · Human ServicesSHALOM PARKUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $30,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLO…DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $10,150 · EducationDENVER JEWISH DAY …STANLEY BRITISH PRIMARY SCHOOL: $6,500 · EducationSTANLEY BRITISH PR…The George Washington University: $2,000 · EducationJEWISHColorado: $33,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColora…HANDCAMPCOLORADO: $11,250 · Recreation & SportsPORTLAND MOUNTAIN RESCUE: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsPLATTEFORUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $2,900 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION: $3,600 · Religion
Other$147,670Human Services$50,000Education$48,750Philanthropy$33,800Recreation & Sports$12,250Arts & Culture$8,000Religion$3,600

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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $45,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $33,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $30,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANDCAMPCOLORADO: $11,250 over 2y, 72% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $10,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTANLEY BRITISH PRIMARY SCHOOL: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLATTEFORUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHALOM PARK: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION: $3,600 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $3,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $2,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY: $2,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREALNESS PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE INC: $2,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPCOUNTRY STRONG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND MOUNTAIN RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Janus Henderson F…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Melvin & Elaine Wolf …Caring for Denver Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
Colorado Gives FoundationCO24.1× affinity10 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 · 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

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 Martin & Gloria Trotsky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin & Gloria Trotsky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 38 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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