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The Bard Family Foundation at a glance

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The Bard Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$345kEducation$19kArts & Culture$14kRecreation & Sports$13kReligion$10kEnvironment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Children's HospitalTCHF$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 (FY21–21, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Denver Options: $250 → 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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$364k · 10 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$364k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+44%

Still filing today

60%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TL
    The LAM Foundation
    3× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +25%
  • RR
    ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
    3× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +73%
  • VS
    Vail Symposium
    2× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • IH
    INTEGRATIVE HEALTH POLICY CONSORTIUM
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • BC
    BOULDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Vail Health Services

Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.

Health
2
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
4
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
5
Vvmc Diversified Services

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
7
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
8
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
12
Poudre Valley Medical Group Llc

We improve lives. in big ways through learning, healing and discovery. in small, personal ways through human connection. but in all ways, we improve lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Progressive Health 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

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL: $280,417 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITALINTEGRATIVE HEALTH POLICY CONSORTIUM: $15,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Other+10 more: $36,190 · Other+10 moreThe LAM Foundation: $29,015 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsVail Symposium: $5,200 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINS: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $800 · Education+1 more: $21 · EducationTHE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $8,787 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $15 · Arts & CultureEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $1,750 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN HUMAN SERVICES: $250 · Human ServicesSMALL CHAMPIONS INC: $250 · Human ServicesVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $500 · HealthCaringBridge: $250 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $100 · Health+1 more: $50 · Health
Other$346,607Philanthropy$29,115Recreation & Sports$13,000Education$11,021Arts & Culture$8,802Human Services$2,250Health$1,900

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 budgetThe LAM Foundation: $29,015 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVail Symposium: $5,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESSIVE HEALTH CENTER: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HUMAN SERVICES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $21 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15 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.

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…El Pomar FoundationThe Tang FundXcel Energy FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Tang Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Bard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bard Family Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 30 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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