· Public charity
Moonshot edVentures
To grow a community of BIPOC & historically marginalized leaders with the skills and resources to design collaborative solutions that disrupt systemic inequities impacting youth.
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.
The 4 grants below total $67,853 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $150,287 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,434 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Denver Public Schools | $20,000 |
| Aurora Public Schools | $20,000 |
| Global Village Academy | $20,000 |
| The HadaNou Collective | $7,853 |
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 (FY21–21, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +165% since the first grant, against +138% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCONVIVIR COLORADO3× · 2021–2023 · $329k · revenue +178% · 89% of their budget
- BTBE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $301k · revenue +499%
- THTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE4× · 2021–2025 · $272k · revenue +216%
Funded once
Realize Impactgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue +197%- IIM'UNIQUEone grant, 2021 · $12k
- FLFlame Lily Montessorigraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +138%
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.
Creative problem solving education k-12 through university, training and training events
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
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…
Our mission is to challenge encourage and empower students everyday to persevere on their journey to becoming lifelong learners.
Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…
Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.
Education of students with learning differences
To promote citizen engagement in the formation of public policy
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Littleton Academy ignites young minds by encouraging diversity and collaboration through experiential learning opportunities, helping students and their communities reach their full potential.
To provide a strong credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community issues
The organization's mission is to provide a challenging academic program for elemtary school students based on the work of dr. montessori.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Im'unique. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 CONVIVIR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds BE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Prospect Academy of Colorado ↗
- Who funds JOY AS RESISTANCE ↗
- Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN PREP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTH ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds Monument View Montessori Charter School ↗
- Who funds IM'UNIQUE ↗
- Who funds Flame Lily Montessori ↗
- Who funds DENVER THEATRE DISTRICT INC ↗
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: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado · New Profit Inc · Wend II Inc · Trailhead Institute · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Moonshot edVentures 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.
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