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The Duffey Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUI | $5,000 |
| OLD WEST MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ROUTT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $5,000 |
| colorado mountain college foundatio | $2,500 |
| UNIV OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK | $1,000 |
| HOSPICENORTHWEST COLORADO HEALTH | $1,000 |
| YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
| OPERA STEAMBOAT | $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 (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +111% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NSNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +45%
- SMSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $139k · revenue +239%
- YRYAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +814% · 73% of their budget
Funded once
- GHGRAYS HARBOR HISTORICAL SEAPORT AUTHORITYone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -30%
- TVTHE VETERANS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CHCATHREDAL HOMEone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
Produce annual summer music series
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…
The mission of the colorado springs conservatory is to inspire, motivate, and challenge all students to aspire to their highest potential as artists and as human beings through arts immersion studies and community arts advocacy.
The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…
The purpose(s) of the Partnership is to improve the quality of life and economic well-being across Routt County by: (i) enabling business and job retention to increase employment and improve the public welfare, (ii) promoting and assisting…
To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association and the most unlike its peers is Routt County Council On Aging Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds GRAYS HARBOR HISTORICAL SEAPORT AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds OPERA STEAMBOAT ↗
- Who funds DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROUTT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THE VETERANS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Chief Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SEMINARS AT STEAMBOAT ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · Steve and Kelly Bloom Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Wayne Swanson Charitable Fund · Frank Williams Foundation Inc · Steamboat Springs Education Fund · Trousil Family Foundation Fka Indiana Gump Foundation · O'Neal Family Foundation · Kettering Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
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 Duffey Foundation Inc 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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