· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER | $50,000 |
| FAMILY FOR FAMILIES | $50,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP'S CATHOLIC APPEAL | $50,000 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- FBFIGHT BACK FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
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.
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.
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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.
How this is measured
127 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. 127 of the 217 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN HYPERBARIC ASSOC FOR BRAIN INJURIES ↗
- Who funds SWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pema Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pema Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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