· Private foundation
Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k92 grants · $430k
- $10k–50k255 grants · $6.2M
- $50k–250k136 grants · $12M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO FORUM FUND INC | $1,000,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUI | $300,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| COLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION | $220,000 |
| STRATTON AREA FOUNDATION 2 INC | $220,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP | $200,000 |
| COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM F | $200,000 |
| TLC LEARNING CENTER | $200,000 |
| RESILIENT COMMUNITIES RESILIENT FUT | $185,000 |
| CLAYTON EARLY LEARNING TRUSTEE GEOR | $175,000 |
| CENTENNIAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC | $170,000 |
| WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION | $166,666 |
| HEALTH SOLUTIONS | $165,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL SAN LUIS VA | $150,000 |
| WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $16.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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 +15% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
498 repeat relationships — 303 still active in FY2025, 195 since wound down; 89 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +2%
- HSHEALTH SOLUTIONS5× · 2021–2025 · $885k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FNDN BUELL EARLY CHILDHOOD LEADERSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $460k
- HCHolyoke Community Childcareone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -27% · 68% of their budget
- MAMASLOW ACADEMY AND BRIGHT BEGINNINGSone grant, 2022 · $320k
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.
Early childhood education
The organization's mission is to provide low-cost preschool and daycare services for low-income families in the greeley, colorado, area.
The purpose of the Rise School of Denver is to provide the highest quality inclusive early childhood education and therapy for children with and without developmental disabilities. We do this by providing exemplary school- and clinic-based…
Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…
Early Childhood Collective connects the coalition of early childhood resources that serves growing families in Douglas County. ECCo serves as the fiscal agent and administrative hub for community-based early childhood programs that provide…
Our mission is to provide an immersive learning experience that empowers children to be active, engaged learners who appreciate the beauty and intricacies of the natural world. We believe that parents are an integral part of their childs…
Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.
Our philosophy relects our commitment to creating programs that adjust to the developmental needs of children. we are committed to setting and maintaining the highest standards that reflect innovative thinking in the child development…
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Preschool programs for children
To provide quality pre-school education and childcare for children ages 2 to 6 years old in an un-hurried, pressure-free environment.
To provide comprehensive, quality services for children with special needs and their families in a safe and compassionate environment so that they may achieve their fullest potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Lifelong Learning of Estes Valley. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
427 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. 427 of the 871 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FORUM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds CENTENNIAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Early Childhood Partnership of Adams Cou ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATEWIDE PARENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO KIDS THRIVE ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds PARENT POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY STAR INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
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: Caring for Colorado Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Denver Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Sam S Bloom Foundation · The Colorado Trust
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 Temple Hoyne Buell 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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