· Private foundation
Nick DeWolf Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS | $106,918 |
| GLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION PROJECT | $50,000 |
| ASPEN SCIENCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS | $10,000 |
| ASPEN JOURNALISM | $4,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $2,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY NEWS | $1,000 |
| LIFT UP | $1,000 |
| WILDERNESS WORKSHOP | $1,000 |
| ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| THE BUSH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 0 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 FY2024, 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
- ACASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS7× · 2018–2024 · $696k · revenue +26% · 26% of their budget
- GWGLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION PROJECT4× · 2021–2024 · $260k · revenue +55%
- ASASPEN SCIENCE CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- TETHE EVERGREEN SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +107%
- EECOFLIGHTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +57%
- LULIFT UP FARM TO PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
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…
The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…
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…
Ecology project international's mission is to inspire youth with nature and empower them with science, fostering tomorrow's leaders. we envision a diverse movement building communities that cherish and restore the ecosystems that sustain…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Wasatch mountain institute provides hands-on learning experiences through outdoor recreation at jordanelle state park.
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…
Environmental health sciences provides science-based information on endocrinedisruption and related environmental factors that influence human and environmentalhealth. the organization aggregates news and translates research to make…
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ecoflight. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 ASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS ↗
- Who funds Aspen Journalism ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGREEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FOR LIFELONG DISCOVERY ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Arches Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ruth a Carver Foundation · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found · Alpenglow Foundation · Brady Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Seattle Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Nick DeWolf 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.
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 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.