· Private foundation
The Blessing 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRAPROCK CENTER FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE | $8,400 |
| BOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| CULTURAL CARAVAN | $7,100 |
| PERMATOURS | $6,600 |
| BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL AND CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS ART FUND INC | $3,900 |
| WORLD SINGING DAY | $3,000 |
| CELLISTS FOR CHANGE | $1,500 |
| PROJECT STEP | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTraprock Center for Peace & Justice Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +34% · 34% of their budget
- BCBOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +21%
- TETHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- PPermatoursone grant, 2025 · $7k
- BPBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAone grant, 2025 · $6k · revenue 0%
- CFCELLISTS FOR CHANGEone grant, 2025 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Longmont Concert Band is a nonprofit organization composed of volunteer musicians from the surrounding community. Our goals are to provide quality concert band music to the general public, to provide a fun and invigorating atmosphere…
Charitable organization presenting musical events and educational programs. In 2023-24, Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra presented two world premieres and featured numerous works by women composers and composers of color.
Boulder ballet creates engaging dance performances and educational initiatives that enrich human connections through the transformative power of the arts.
Boulder Chamber Orchestra BCO is a non-profit organization committed to providing exceptional chamber music programming education and outreach as well as an outlet for talented local artists in the Boulder community.
To enrich and inspire a broad community through music.
Education in the Jazz Arts for musicians of all ages.
The organization 1 provides an opportunity for community members who have an interest in instrumental music to participate in an organization with others and 2 provides performances for public occasions such as benefits for charitable or…
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
Open Studios is an organization operating in Boulder County, Colorado that serves artists and the broader community by advancing the visual arts through education and events.
Our purpose is to establish an active community within the freedom and culture expressed in authentic and engaging jazz experiences. As a performing arts organization, our goal is to strengthen the community through jazz performances,…
Provide top quality Suzuki Method string instruction to children of all ages, educate parents in their role as a music educator and parent, foster continuing education of faculty associated with Boulder Suzuki Strings, provide financial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts and the most unlike its peers is African Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Traprock Center for Peace & Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds African Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Project STEP Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL CARAVAN ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Emsa Fund Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Blessing Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Step Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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