· Private foundation
Tepper Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTS | $15,500 |
| YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM | $5,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,459 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH INC | $2,500 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $2,200 |
| CO2 COALITION | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,600 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $1,600 |
| FRIENDS OF THE AQUARIUM WAIKIKI HI | $1,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC CENTER | $1,000 |
| DENVER ZOO | $650 |
| ST JOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL | $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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 41 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +7%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH2× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue +50%
DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS3× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- LHLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -21%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Scottish Rite Masonic Center. 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 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 94 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 DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MARION DOWNS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Masonic Service Association ↗
- Who funds EL JEBEL SHRINERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 · Farrell Family Foundation · Logan Wright Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Eric Javits Family Foundation · The Yaseen Family Foundation Inc · Pema Foundation Inc · JEWISHColorado · Donors Trust Inc · Rose Community Foundation
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 Tepper Family 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.