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Tappan Easton Foundation at a glance

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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.

$112k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$201kCrime & Legal$61kEducation$60kHuman Services$52kYouth Development$49kArts & Culture$38kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST DESCENTS$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING EXTENSION$10,000
DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
THE KEMPE FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE IGNITES COLORADO$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
INVEST IN KIDS$3,000
SOX PLACE INC$3,000
THE LOTUS NETWORK$1,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CANINE COMPANIONS: $1k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $10k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $8k → 8%HOPE AND HOME: $3k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $7k → 8%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$457k · 15 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$457k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FD
    FIRST DESCENTS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $162k · revenue +66%
  • TK
    THE KEMPE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +27%
  • CY
    COLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • WC
    WESTON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -2%
  • KI
    KIDS IN NEED DENTISTRY
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Children's Campaign

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.…

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2
Colorado Dream Foundation

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…

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3
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
4
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
Kipp Colorado Schools

Kipp colorado's mission is to equip our students with the academic skills and character strengths necessary to succeed in college and careers.

Education
7
Caring for Colorado Foundation

The foundation works to improve the lives of young people and their families in colorado through collaboration, partnership, shared knowledge and grant-making.

Health
8
Denver Kids Inc

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.

Education
9
The Denver Children's Foundation

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…

Human Services
10
Denver Children's Choir

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
12
Fund for the New School Boulder Country Day School

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kempe Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST DESCENTS: $162,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST DESCENTSCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION: $39,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATIONHOPE IGNITES COLORADO: $22,000 · OtherHOPE IGNITES COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING EXTENSION: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING EX…WESTON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherWESTON COUNTY LIBRARY FO…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…BAGS OF FUN: $8,000 · OtherBAGS OF FUNBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $8,000 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPEKIDS IN NEED DENTISTRY: $7,000 · OtherKIDS IN NEED DENTISTRYDONORS CHOOSE: $7,000 · OtherDONORS CHOOSESUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $4,200 · OtherUPTON REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $12,000 · OtherUPTON REDEVELOPMENT CORP…+9 more: $18,200 · Other+9 moreTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $61,000 · Crime & LegalTHE KEMPE FOU…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVI…CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KI…Sox Place Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesSox Place IncHOPE AND HOME: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $7,500 · EducationLONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND: $38,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $8,000 · HealthTHE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthLOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $600 · Health
Recreation & Sports$201,000Other$116,400Crime & Legal$61,000Human Services$61,000Education$39,500Arts & Culture$38,000Health$14,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $162,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetLONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND: $38,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE IGNITES COLORADO: $22,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSox Place Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUPTON REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetWESTON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $4,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART HOUSING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBackpack Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe WILLstrong Foundation Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Janus Henderson F…Kenneth Kendal King F…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Schlessman Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO23.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tappan Easton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tappan Easton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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