· Private foundation
The Cherne Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k14 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER SANTA CLAUS SHOP | $15,000 |
| SAVIO HOUSE | $15,000 |
| COLORADO OPEN LANDS | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $10,000 |
| DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $10,000 |
| COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $10,000 |
| MT ST VINCENT HOME | $10,000 |
| GARY SINISE FDN | $10,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN HONOR FLIGHT | $10,000 |
| DENVER HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
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 vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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.
The denver police blue hat foundation provides financial assistance and support to active and former denver police officers, civilian employees of the police department and immediate members of their families in times of crisis.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care, strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
See schedule o.to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals within the state of colorado by:-assisting agencies in the enforcement of laws relating to cruelty and neglect of companion animals and equines-educating the public on animal welfare…
Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…
The mission of pikes peak hospice & palliative care is to provide compassionate and expert end-of-life care to patients and their families, partner with those who share our vision, and lead change in the community to ensure comfort for all…
Goodwill's mission is to provide education, career development, and employment opportunities to help coloradans in need achieve self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope through the power of work.
Comfort bridge d/b/a care synergy is a nonprofit organization formed in 2014 and is the region's largest end-of-life care network. care synergy provides mission support services for nonprofit home health care and community-based hospice…
Colorado visiting nurse association is committed to a continuum of health care in the home and community supporting optimal well-being, independence, and dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Honor Flight. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 THE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds SAVIO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Cherne 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.
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.