· Private foundation
Sheridan Ross Charitable Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE | $1,000 |
| SHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL | $950 |
| COLORADO WOMANS BAR ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| MS SOCIETY | $250 |
| AURORA POLICE ASSOCIATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALegal Aid Foundation of Colorado7× · 2017–2023 · $134k · revenue +23%
- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +94%
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE2× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- B5BLM 5280one grant, 2020 · $9k
- CCASAone grant, 2021 · $3k
- ADANTI DEFIMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
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…
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,…
To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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…
To increase diversity in the legal profession in colorado and to develop tomorrow's diverse leaders in their professional careers. law school yes we can worked with over 300 current mentors, supported over 100 lsywc fellows & connected…
Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 140 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
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 Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBALMINDED ↗
- Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planned Pethood International ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VOICES COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities ↗
- Who funds TBCT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Boettcher Foundation · The Colorado Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheridan Ross Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheridan Ross Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
- Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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