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Posen Family 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 $10k38 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELMHURST CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $15,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA | $2,004 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $2,000 |
| BOULDER JCC | $2,000 |
| B'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $2,000 |
| GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $900 |
| LUVIN ARMS | $750 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $750 |
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| LOCAL REPORTING LAB INITIATIVE INC | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY VETERINARY TEACHING HOSPITAL | $350 |
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, $10k) 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 +22% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 14 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LPLukaba Productions5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +20%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +34%
- RTRAINFOREST TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Daytongraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +27%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -45%
JUDAISM YOUR WAYone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petsmart Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 52 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 Lukaba Productions ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Luvin Arms ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
- Who funds MOON & STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Frieds Cat Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds Local Reporting Lab Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUL DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Little Heroes League ↗
- Who funds STARDUST ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE ROO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHI-TOWN PITTIES INC ↗
- Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PETSMART CHARITIES 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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Posen Family 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.
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