· Private foundation
Tappan Easton 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 $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST DESCENTS | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING EXTENSION | $10,000 |
| THE KEMPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOPE IGNITES COLORADO | $10,000 |
| DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC | $8,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY | $8,000 |
| LONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND | $7,000 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER | $5,000 |
| HOPE AND HOME | $3,000 |
| SOX PLACE INC | $3,000 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $3,000 |
| THE LOTUS NETWORK | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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; $26k 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
- FDFIRST DESCENTS6× · 2020–2025 · $162k · revenue +66%
- TKTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +27%
- CYCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- WCWESTON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- DDONORSCHOOSEORGone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -2%
- DCDONORS CHOOSEone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Kipp colorado's mission is to equip our students with the academic skills and character strengths necessary to succeed in college and careers.
The foundation works to improve the lives of young people and their families in colorado through collaboration, partnership, shared knowledge and grant-making.
Provides professional, educational counseling and volunteer mentors for denver public school students, grades third through twelve, with the goal of keeping them in the school system until they graduate from high school.
The denver children's foundation (fka denver active 20/30 children's foundation) engages young professionals in their 20's and 30's on a philanthropic mission of raising money for various children's charities in our community. through…
To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Boulder country day school provides a well-rounded education of academic excellence and character development in a safe environment, empowering our students to reach their full potential as lifelong learners and responsible, globally aware…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kempe Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Weston County Library Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 FIRST DESCENTS ↗
- Who funds THE KEMPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds UPTON REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sox Place Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Central Kansas Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HOME ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds LOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL ↗
- Who funds The WILLstrong Foundation Trust ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Backpack Society ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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 Janus Henderson Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Schlessman Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Tappan Easton 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.