· Private foundation
The Christian P Anschutz Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| COLORADO THIRTY GROUP INC | $30,000 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| WYCLIFFE SEED COMPANY | $25,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $25,000 |
| FBICAAA | $25,000 |
| COLORADO STATE PATROL FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| HEADWATERSLIFE INC | $10,000 |
| WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY | $5,000 |
| THE BECKY BAKER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| TRAGEDY ASST PROG FOR SURVIVORS | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +30% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- DPDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +443%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE DENVER FIRE DEPT2× · 2021–2023 · $134k · revenue +179% · 83% of their budget
- CSCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- VSVETERAN SHEEPDOGS OF COLORADOone grant, 2021 · $250k · 26% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $60k
- CNColorado National Guard Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -6%
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.
To build effective partnerships that support the cs police dept and local community
The mission statement of c.o.p.s. reflects the strong belief that assistance, guidance, understanding, empathy, and hope for the future for the survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty begins with a caring, prepared…
The mission of the cfhf is to honor fallen law enforcement officers, as well as to respect and support their survivors and agencies.
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,…
The purpose of this foundation is to provide funding opportunities for professional development to the law enforcement professionals in the state of colorado.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Association relief fund was formed to provide assistance to public safety personnel, including but not limited to, police officers, firefighters, and their families who may have fallen upon hard times.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
The purposes of the corporation are fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Headwaters Life Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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 VETERAN SHEEPDOGS OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DENVER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO OUTREACH EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO THIRTY GROUP ↗
- Who funds Colorado National Guard Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO AIR NATIONAL GUARD LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE PATROL FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AURORA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BECKY BAKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER DEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY POLICE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Richmond American Foundation · Pema Foundation Inc · Daniels Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Christian P Anschutz 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.
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