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The Asfaw Family Foundation International

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$81kCommunity Improvement$30kHealth$12kCrime & Legal$8kArts & Culture$6kInternational$3kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$34k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Executives Partnering to Invest in Children$12,000
St Mary's Scholarship Fund$10,405
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society$8,300
African Chamber of Commerce Colorado$3,500
CPRD Capital Campaign$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,869
YMCA of Metropolitan Denver$1,000
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%100 Men Who Cook: $3k → 12%YMCA of Metropolitan Denver: $1k → 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

MA
NV
IA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 3 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +313% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
43

Total granted

$49k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+313%
+8%

Still filing today

33%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • EP
    Executives Partnering to Invest in Children
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +313%
  • CC
    CPRD Capital Campaign
    3× · 2021–2024 · $23k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k

Funded once

  • RA
    ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +8%
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +95%
  • UL
    Urban Leadership Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
4
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
5
Denver Film Society

The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…

Arts & Culture
6
Movember Foundation

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Health
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children

Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…

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12
The Elway Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Delta Eta Boule 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

10 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. 10 of the 51 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CPRD Capital Campaign: $22,500 · OtherCPRD Capital CampaignSt Mary's Scholarship Fund: $10,405 · OtherSt Mary's Scholarship FundUrban Leadership Foundation: $3,500 · OtherAfrican Chamber of Commerce Colorado: $3,500 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN BLOOD CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND: $3,500 · Other+37 more: $48,069 · Other+37 moreExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC): $24,000 · EducationExecutives Partnering …Our Vision for Ethiopia: $3,000 · EducationOur Vision for Ethiopi…DELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationDELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDA…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $8,300 · HealthROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $8,182 · Crime & LegalDENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & Culture100 Men Who Cook: $2,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50 · Food & Nutrition
Other$91,474Education$29,000Health$8,300Crime & Legal$8,182Arts & Culture$5,000Human Services$3,500Food & Nutrition$50

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 budgetExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC): $24,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $8,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $8,182 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BLOOD CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND: $3,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetDELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50 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 Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BLOOD CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Our Vision for Ethiopia ↗
  • Who funds 100 Men Who Cook ↗
  • Who funds DELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Temple Hoyne Buell FoundationCO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Asfaw Family Foundation International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Asfaw Family Foundation International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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