· Private foundation
PB&K Family Foundation Co Cresset
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $708k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $200,000 |
| COLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY | $150,000 |
| NRDC | $100,000 |
| LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK | $87,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUN | $60,000 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $50,000 |
| URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION OF COLO | $47,000 |
| GLOBAL LINKS | $25,000 |
| WE DON'T WASTE | $25,000 |
| CONSERVATION COLORADO | $20,000 |
| ROOTED WISDOM AFRICA FKA INTO YR HA | $16,950 |
| DSST - COLE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| OUR CHILDRENS TRUST | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
42 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +89%- CCCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +12%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MFMSF Foundation (Mandy's Farm)one grant, 2017 · $175k
- NNRDCone grant, 2018 · $75k
- NRNational Resource Defense Councilone grant, 2017 · $75k
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.
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
Ethics watch uses high impact legal actions to hold public officials and organizations accountable for unethical activities that undermine the integrity of government in colorado. the organization accomplishes its mission by combining…
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Days for Girls International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 73 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Rooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LINKS ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds MARGARETS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Colorado Trust · Mile High United Way Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation
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 PB&K Family Foundation Co Cresset 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.