· Private foundation
The Chill 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | $10,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN MS CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE DENVER ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $10,000 |
| WARREN VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $10,000 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE COLORADO SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $7,000 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DENVER ZOO | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
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 +68% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +26%
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEART8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +138%
- CSCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- FCFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
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: The Anschutz Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way 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 Chill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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