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The Caruso Foundation dba Caruso Entrepreneurship Initiative
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $618k
- $250k+2 grants · $605k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $355,000 |
| University of Chicago Booth School of Business | $250,000 |
| University of Illinois | $225,000 |
| Boulder Police Foundation | $111,000 |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $92,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| Endeavor Colorado | $64,473 |
| National Center for Women & Information Technology | $50,000 |
| Access Opportunity | $40,000 |
| Operation Walk Denver | $25,000 |
| Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau | $25,000 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $25,000 |
| Unite America Institute | $20,000 |
| Boulder Cancer Fighters | $15,000 |
| Colorado Forum Fund Inc | $13,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +79%
University of Chicago7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +56%- GSGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS7× · 2017–2024 · $436k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Colorado Boulderone grant, 2020 · $240k
- A(Anschutz (CU Foundation)one grant, 2020 · $60k
- BCBOULDER CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +18%
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.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
To perform education and research priorities that work to strengthen Colorado's economic viability. COBRT Partners works to improve the business climate in our state by focusing on key pillars for a sustainable, growing, and global…
To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Every child deserves a great educator. pebc works across the nation to prepare outstanding new teachers, help practicing teachers and leaders become exceptional, and shape systems and policies in order to foster vibrant growth and lasting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boulder Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 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. 52 of the 82 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds CIVICO ↗
- Who funds THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Colorado Thrives ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CANCER FIGHTERS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Boulder Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds BOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Watson Institute ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Leadership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COUNTY RSVP BOARD INC dba CULTIVATE ↗
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 · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Thiry-O'Leary Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · The Anschutz Foundation · Daniels Fund · Impactassetsinc · Starting Line 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 Caruso Foundation dba Caruso Entrepreneurship Initiative 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.
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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