· Private foundation
The Brownie 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEAK ABUNDANCE | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION FOR EDUC | $20,000 |
| TRANS CONTINENTAL PIPELINE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY AGAINST SUBSTANCE ABUSEINC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of those 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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TITEENS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $353k · revenue +42%
- PAPEAK ABUNDANCE7× · 2019–2025 · $213k · revenue +27%
- FRFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CCCanyon Cares of Coal Creek Canyonone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +8%
- DIDE-CRUIT INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -92%
- SFSALUD FAMILY HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +29%
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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.
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
One colorado education fund (ocef) is committed to securing and protecting equality and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) coloradans and their families.
Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.
Together we create solutions for a better life.
To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.
Fortaleza familiar is dedicated to the wellness of indigenous chicanx latinx lesbian gay bi queer trans two-spirit young people and their families in colorado.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigration Equality and the most unlike its peers is Canyon Cares of Coal Creek Canyon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 49 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 TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds PEAK ABUNDANCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INTL ↗
- Who funds Canyon Cares of Coal Creek Canyon ↗
- Who funds TRANS CONTINENTAL PIPELINE ↗
- Who funds DE-CRUIT INC ↗
- Who funds SALUD FAMILY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AGAINST SUBSTANCE ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SU TEATRO INC ↗
- Who funds POINT OF PRIDE ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PRIDE ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Brownie 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.
- Community Against Substance Abuse Inc — 9% 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.