· Private foundation
Starting Block Inc
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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW COLORADO | $75,100 |
| K'IIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STEAMBOAT ADAPTIVE RECREATIONAL SPORTS | $10,000 |
| LAKE HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORP | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW COLORADO3× · 2023–2025 · $202k
- DDDIG DEEP2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue -54%
- TDTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- LPLAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +6%
- WCWOMEN CALLED MOSES COALITION AND OUTREACH INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +5% · 47% of their budget
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -2%
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.
Waterstep focuses on providing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities in need around the world. its mission is rooted in the belief that safe water is a basic human right and a critical foundation for health,…
Serving the displaced in the middle east.
Dolores River Boating Advocates protects and enriches the recreational and ecological values of the Dolores River through advocacy, stewardship and education.
The mission of diversity in aquatics is to educate promote and support swimming water safety and healthy aquatics activities for underserved marginalized and vulnerable populations.
Protection and advocacy for people with disabilities.
Dzi partners with local communities in nepal to achieve shared prosperity by ensuring access to basic needs, catalyzing inclusive economic growth, and creating an environment for lasting change.
We promote meaningful pathways for everyone to engage with conflict, to learn from each other, and to grow in community.
Lime connect is leading the way as the premier resource for top talent in the disability space by attracting, preparing and connecting highly accomplished individuals, including veterans, with disabilities for careers with the world's…
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.
Watershed collaboration and stewardship
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN CALLED MOSES COALITION AND OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORP ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Starting Block 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.
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.