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PB&K Family Foundation Co Cresset at a glance

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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.

$856k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.4MEnvironment$1.2MCivil Rights$1.1MEducation$733kFood & Nutrition$712kArts & Culture$563kHuman Services$451kPhilanthropy$271kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $708k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ATTENTION HOMES: $10k → 12%Attention Homes: $10k → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $10k → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $10k → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $10k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK: $88k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK: $88k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK: $88k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK: $88k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado: $25k → 12%BLACK LIVES MATTER 5280: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
MD
NM
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 42 repeat orgs$753k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
29

Total granted

$6.1M
$736k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+45%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +89%
  • CC
    COLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +12%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • MF
    MSF Foundation (Mandy's Farm)
    one grant, 2017 · $175k
  • NR
    National Resource Defense Council
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • N
    NRDC
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
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
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
2
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
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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5
Ethics Watch Dba Colorado Ethics Watch

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…

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6
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

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.

Health
7
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
9
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

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.

Environment
12
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/51
Grantees still filing
37/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…Rooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands: $101,268 · InternationalRooted Wisdom Africa …GLOBAL LINKS: $100,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKSPOLARIS PROJECT: $90,000 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECT+5 more: $81,000 · International+5 moreMSF Foundation (Mandy's Farm): $175,000 · OtherMSF Foundation (Mandy's Farm)POSNER CENTER: $168,001 · OtherPOSNER CENTERROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANTS ADVOCACY: $112,571 · OtherDRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIA: $100,000 · OtherLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $350,000 · OtherLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKINGACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $240,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INCCONSERVATION COLORADO: $104,000 · OtherTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $266,085 · OtherTHE DENVER FOUNDATIONENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $117,431 · Other+33 more: $860,116 · Other+33 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $420,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…COLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $149,500 · EducationCOLORADO URB…THE COLORADO COLLEGE: $140,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO…+4 more: $55,442 · Education+4 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $600,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RES…OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $74,000 · EnvironmentOUR CHILDRE…CLEAN WATER FUND: $60,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER…+2 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $600,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO …+2 more: $15,000 · Crime & LegalDENVER ART MUSEUM: $292,604 · Arts & CultureDENVER AR…PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $199,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BR…OPERA COLORADO: $66,666 · Arts & CultureOPERA COL…+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $300,000 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INC: $150,800 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $76,154 · Food & Nutrition
International$1,372,268Other$2,493,204Education$764,942Environment$744,000Crime & Legal$615,000Arts & Culture$563,270Food & Nutrition$526,954

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $600,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $600,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $420,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $350,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $300,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $292,604 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $266,085 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $240,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $199,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $150,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $149,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $117,431 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO: $104,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetRooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands: $101,268 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS: $100,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $76,154 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $74,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOPERA COLORADO: $66,666 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetATTENTION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARGARETS VILLAGE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $37,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CHARTER INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPENWORLD LEARNING: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE NORTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $8,442 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDays For Girls International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK LIVES MATTER 5280: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIMPACT 100 METRO DENVER: $4,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRAFT(RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING)COLORADO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 ATTENTION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds MARGARETS VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗

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 FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationSchlessman Foundation…The Colorado TrustMile High United Way …The Women's Foundatio…The Janus Henderson F…Western Union Foundat…Lumen Clarke M Willia…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO36.8× affinity18 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 · 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

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 PB&K Family Foundation Co Cresset funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from PB&K Family Foundation Co Cresset. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 73 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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