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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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$352kReligion$107kPublic Benefit$96kInternational$83kHealth$76kEducation$55kHuman Services$34kPhilanthropy$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$870k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,000
SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC CENTER$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
DENVER ZOO$650
DENVER BOTANICAL GARDENS$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KASH FOUNDATION - VA: $500 → 9%THE DENVER HOSPICE: $1k → 12%DENVER HOSPICE: $500 → 12%DENVER HOSPICE: $300 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%BESSIE'S HOPE: $800 → 12%BESSIE'S HOPE: $300 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
SC
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$812k · 52 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
32

Total granted

$812k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
0%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +7%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    2× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue +50%
  • DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • LH
    LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -21%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +120%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
9
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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10
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
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

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

53 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. 53 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
38/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTS: $77,900 · OtherDENVER CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTSYESHIVA TORAS CHAIM: $40,400 · OtherYESHIVA TORAS CHAIMNOTRE DAME DE LA BAIE ACADEMY INC: $32,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME DE LA BAIE ACADEMY INCFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $26,600 · OtherFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INCBETH MEDROSH HAGODOL CONGREGATION: $24,250 · OtherBETH MEDROSH HAGODOL CONGREGATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,779 · OtherMASONIC RELIEF FUND: $17,500 · Other+60 more: $202,345 · Other+60 moreDENVER ART MUSEUM: $178,170 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $37,550 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMIN…OPERA COLORADO: $33,596 · Arts & CultureOPERA COLORADOSCOTTISH RITE MASONIC CENTER: $15,620 · Arts & CultureSCOTTISH RITE MASONIC CENTER+1 more: $900 · Arts & CultureTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $33,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $14,725 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $10,700 · Public BenefitINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $4,500 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,550 · Public BenefitTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $29,264 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColorado: $16,080 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $4,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $4,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $46,250 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $7,500 · InternationalNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $43,839 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $3,100 · Health+3 more: $1,400 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesBessies Hope: $1,100 · Human ServicesKASH FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$441,774Arts & Culture$265,836Public Benefit$64,475Philanthropy$58,844International$53,750Health$53,339Human Services$13,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $178,170 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $46,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $43,839 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $37,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA COLORADO: $33,596 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $29,264 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $26,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $16,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTTISH RITE MASONIC CENTER: $15,620 over 9y, 26% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $14,725 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARION DOWNS CENTER: $11,525 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLeadership Institute: $10,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC: $8,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMasonic Service Association: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEL JEBEL SHRINERS: $7,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $3,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILLIAMS SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBessies Hope: $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited American Patriots Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Nursing: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKASH FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFine Arts Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC: $250 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.

  • 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Farrell Family Founda…Logan Wright Foundati…The Chotin Family Fou…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationEric Javits Family Fo…The Yaseen Family Fou…Pema Foundation IncJEWISHColoradoDonors Trust IncRose Community Founda…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tepper Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tepper Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 94 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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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home