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Pema Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $825k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $4,250,000 |
| NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW | $532,600 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $256,000 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $250,000 |
| SOPHIA INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $124,250 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $120,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $112,500 |
| ENDOW | $100,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $68,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP'S CATHOLIC APPEAL | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER | $50,000 |
| FAMILY FOR FAMILIES | $50,000 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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, $397k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those 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.
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.
106 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 12 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; $143k 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
- TWTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +116%
- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +0%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +194%
Funded once
- NTNATIONAL TAX LIBERATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- FBFIGHT BACK FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +13%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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 advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gold Crown Foundation and the most unlike its peers is CO2 Foundation. 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 26 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 — 2% 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.
127 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. 127 of the 217 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ENDOW ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CONVENTION OF STATES ACTION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HYPERBARIC ASSOC FOR BRAIN INJURIES ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
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 Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Daniels Fund · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Richmond American Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Bruce Benson 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 Pema Foundation Inc 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.
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% 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.
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