· Private foundation
Pinon Trail Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $22,970 |
| SUMMIT COMMUNITY FUND | $16,000 |
| RYYAN CHACRA FOUNDATION | $15,650 |
| ROSE COMMUNITY FUND | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $7,500 |
| JEWISH COLORADO | $5,000 |
| LAKE FORREST ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| COLAB | $5,000 |
| GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATI | $5,000 |
| EFSHAR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| LOCAL MEDIA ASSOCIATION & LOCAL MED | $2,500 |
| MAPS | $2,500 |
| ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $57k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +62%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER4× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%
- CFCOBALT FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- JCJEWSIH COMMUNITY SERVICEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- OUOKLAHOMA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- LMLOCATION MEDIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ryyan Chacra Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 53 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 VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE RYYAN CHACRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Denver Park Trust ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY CHILD READING ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO ↗
- Who funds GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
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 · Robert E & Anne T Sneed Aka Family Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Connie Burwell White and William W White Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Shana Glassman Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · The Women's Foundation of Colorado 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 Pinon Trail 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.
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.