How much does The Anna and John J Sie Foundation give?

The Anna and John J Sie Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $3,533,065 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Anna and John J Sie Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Health (36%), Education (21%).

Who are The Anna and John J Sie Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Denver Art Museum ($11M), Global Down Syndrome Foundation ($7.5M), University of Colorado Foundation ($4.3M).

Does The Anna and John J Sie Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Anna and John J Sie Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Anna and John J Sie Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.

Where is The Anna and John J Sie Foundation based?

The Anna and John J Sie Foundation is based in CO.

The Anna and John J Sie Foundation

The Anna and John J Sie Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Anna and John J Sie 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.

$3.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.3M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$12MHealth$12MEducation$6.9MCommunity Improvement$519kReligion$474kHuman Services$412kInternational$171kPublic Safety & Disaster$122kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $78k
$10k–50k17 grants · $307k
$50k–250k4 grants · $491k
$250k+3 grants · $2.7M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION	$1,316,253
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO	$840,330
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION	$500,500
DENVER HEALTH & HOSPITALS	$225,419
DENVER ART MUSEUM	$116,050
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION	$100,000
JUDAISM YOUR WAY	$50,000
SERIESFEST	$36,400
MILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING	$25,000
DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND	$25,000
MIZEL INSTITUTE-LYON GLOBAL FOUNDAT	$25,000
DENVER FILM SOCIETY	$20,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-COLORADO	$20,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART	$20,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH	$17,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$34M · 87 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$34M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+7%

Still filing today

62%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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× · 2018–2025 · $11M · revenue +18%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +40%
CH
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
5× · 2018–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +37%

Funded once

GD
Global Down Syndrome Foundation - In-kind from AJSF to GDSF
one grant, 2018 · $747k
UO
University of Colorado Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $500k
CH
Children's Hospital Colorado
one grant, 2023 · $228k · revenue +7%

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.

Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy

Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture

Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education

Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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Colorado Academy

Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.

Education

Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health

International School of Denver

Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.

Education

Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Children's Campaign; the most unlike its peers is I Con 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

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 157 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

87/90

Grantees still filing

64/90

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$12,409,550Health$9,807,764Other$7,856,661Education$5,834,162Religion$410,000Youth Development$95,300Human Services$81,700

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

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.

The Denver FoundationCO65.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Anschutz Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Libertygives Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Colorado Dental Service Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Xcel Energy 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 The Anna and John J Sie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anna and John J Sie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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