· Private foundation
The Dormie Fund
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $35,000 |
| ST JOHNS CATHEDRAL | $12,000 |
| USGA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| COLORADO SPORTS HALL OF FAME | $3,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY-JONES | $3,000 |
| US AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL WESTERN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $3,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its 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.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +4%
- CGCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $43k · revenue +99%
- TWTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IIINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -42%
- CICATO INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +37%
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
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: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dormie Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dormie Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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