· Private foundation
The Billinghurst 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES | $250,000 |
| SUMMIT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL PTSO | $25,000 |
| PATRICK SCHOONOVER HEART FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BRECKENRIDGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE KIVA CENTER | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH RUIDOSO | $10,000 |
| SMART BELLIES | $5,000 |
| SUMMIT COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TREETOP CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $2,500 |
| FATHER DYER METHODIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $90k) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of The Billinghurst Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES3× · 2022–2025 · $751k
- MCMETHODIST CHURCH RUIDOSO2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
- TKTHE KIVA CENTER3× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -13%
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +29%
- JAJOHN AND SHEILA MARTINone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
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.
We are a grassroots movement working to build a fossil-free future powered by 100% renewable energy. we empower communities across colorado to join together to fight for environmental justice. through our volunteer-led teams, we use a…
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Motivate and enable people to be active stewards of colorado's natural resources.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PATRICK SCHOONOVER HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KIVA CENTER ↗
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Summit Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Xcel Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Billinghurst Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Billinghurst Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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