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The Devoe 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$61kFood & Nutrition$21kReligion$16kHuman Services$13kEnvironment$11kPhilanthropy$7kYouth Development$6kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$532k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVENDELL SCHOOL$10,000
JESUITS OF THE MISSOURI PROVINCE$2,500
SHELBURNE FARMS$2,500
REALITIES FOR CHILDREN$2,000
TREES WATER PEOPLE$2,000
HAWAII LAND TRUST$2,000
PROJECT SOL FLOWER$1,000
THE FOOD BASKET$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO$1,000
AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ$1,000
OPEN DOOR CLINIC$1,000
FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY$1,000
UNITED CHARITABLE-ATITLAN EDUCATION$500
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGS-BTV EQUITY$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 12%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $259 → 10%ASSOC OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT: $250 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MI
NY
OR
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 20 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

$132k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+9%

Still filing today

80%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AD
    AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +139%
  • MS
    MOUNTAIN SAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +46%
  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Boredomfighters Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -10%
  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
4
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
5
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
6
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
7
San Isabel Land Protection Trust

The principal mission of the land trust is to work with landowners to protect agricultural and forest lands, water resources, wildlife habitat and scenic open spaces, and to serve our community by facilitating parks and trail in custer,…

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8
Estes Valley Land Trust

The mission of estes valley land trust is to conserve land throughout the estes valley and surrounding areas for current and future generations.

Environment
9
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
10
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
11
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
12
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect and enhance agricultural land, wildlife habitat and scenic lands in western colorado to benefit the community at large, enrich lives, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Boredomfighters Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $27,809 · EducationAMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONMOUNTAIN SAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $17,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN SAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL+1 more: $250 · EducationRIVENDELL SCHOOL: $15,500 · OtherRIVENDELL SCHOOLJESUITS OF THE MISSOURI PROVINCE: $15,000 · OtherJESUITS OF THE MISSOURI PROVINCETHE GROWING PLACE-RISING STARS: $5,000 · OtherTHE GROWING PLACE-RISING STARSRESPITE CARE OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $2,000 · OtherCommunity Health Services of Addison Cty Inc: $2,000 · Other+18 more: $9,583 · Other+18 moreSHELBURNE FARMS: $16,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMSTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $5,039 · EnvironmentTREES WATER AND PEOP…HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAN…+3 more: $1,025 · EnvironmentREALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES: $9,500 · PhilanthropyREALITIES …COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $3,571 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO G…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COM…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,535 · AnimalsUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB: $1,215 · AnimalsNORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $1,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY: $500 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $500 · AnimalsSurfers for Strays Inc: $250 · AnimalsAloha Ilio Rescue: $200 · Animals+1 more: $100 · AnimalsThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $3,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $250 · Food & NutritionPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $2,075 · Arts & CultureThe Boredomfighters Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $900 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: $500 · Arts & CultureFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM: $250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $36 · Arts & Culture
Education$45,059Other$49,083Environment$27,064Philanthropy$14,071Animals$5,300Food & Nutrition$5,250Arts & Culture$4,761

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $27,809 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN SAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $5,039 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $3,571 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $2,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Services of Addison Cty Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,535 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB: $1,215 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $524 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELMORE COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC: $259 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSurfers for Strays Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAloha Ilio Rescue: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOGA FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO WILDLIFE CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO: $36 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Colorado Gives Founda…National Life Group C…Otter Cares Foundatio…Christina Heroy Found…The Morris & Bessie A…Seattle FoundationShell USA Company Fou…ImpactassetsincGe Aerospace Foundati…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Christina Heroy Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Devoe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Devoe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Champlain Housing Trust: 15% of income from government
  • Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Portland Baroque Orchestra: 1% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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