· Private foundation
Meltzer 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Family Services | $2,591 |
| Hadassah | $2,000 |
| Jewish Family Services | $1,040 |
| Washington University Department of Ophthalmology | $1,000 |
| March of Dimes | $530 |
| Jewish Colorado | $523 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $520 |
| Food Bank Rockies | $520 |
| Michigan Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation Inc | $261 |
| Individual grant recipient | $260 |
| Wild Animal Sanctuary | $260 |
| Parker Task Force | $260 |
| Individual grant recipient | $260 |
| Joseph Slifka Center Jewish Life at Yale University | $259 |
| Shalom Park | $141 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +39%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +76%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- JFJewish Famiily Servicesone grant, 2018 · $1k
- CKCONGREGATION KOL AMIone grant, 2019 · $1k
- CCCherry Creek High Schoolone grant, 2018 · $750
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.
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.
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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 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.
To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.
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…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Provide recreational, cultural, education, and social programs to the community.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
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…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Birds of Prey Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER CONCERT BAND INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Meltzer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meltzer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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