How much did THE ERTESZEK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE ERTESZEK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

theatreeducationmountain

2019

mountainplata

2020

resourceplata

2021

rockyplata

2022

plata

2023

children'sjustice

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k5 grants · $98k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING THE SOUTHWEST$28,493
SAINT JOHNS HOSPITAL$20,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
THE CRIMINAL JUSTIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$20,000
THE GROSSMAN BURN FOUNDATION$10,000
DURANGO PLAYFEST$8,000
SPCALA$5,000
PINE RIVER SHARES$4,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC$3,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 37% of THE ERTESZEK FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE ERTESZEK FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 38 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+90%

Still filing today

42%

18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

FL
FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +419%
TC
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE LEGAL FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +150%
TG
THE GROSSMAN BURN FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +53%

Funded once

SJ
ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL
one grant, 2018 · $25k
SJ
SAINT JOHN'S HOSPITAL
one grant, 2023 · $20k
TT
TUNNEL TO TOWERS
one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities

Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.

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Denver Center for the Performing Arts

We engage and inspire through the transformative power of live theatre.

Arts & Culture

Denver Press Club

Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…

Arts & Culture

The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc

Recreation & Sports

Taos Art Museum

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San Juan County Historical Society

Arts & Culture

Rio Grande Trails and Tales

Education

Santa Fe Concert Association

Performance santa fe (psf) is dedicated to support performing arts by bringing world-class performing artists to santa fe and providing excellent arts education to the youth in the community.

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The Colorado Trust

Philanthropy

The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy

The Santa Fe Opera

To foster and enrich an understanding and appreciation of the operatic art form.

Arts & Culture

Durango Choral Society

Community choral performances and music education

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Companeros Four Corners Immigrant and the most unlike its peers is The Fort Lewis College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/30

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,535

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.

06the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/28

Grantees still filing

22/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$764,707Education$171,000Arts & Culture$156,216Crime & Legal$130,500Human Services$93,200Philanthropy$71,500Health$11,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation Serving SouthwestCO31.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Southwest · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Westmeath Foundation · Natural Pathways Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · United Way of Southwest Colorado · La Plata Electric Association Inc · The Moniker Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health 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 organisation THE ERTESZEK 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DURANGO STEAM PARK INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472364381 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DURANGO STEAM PARK INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Erteszek Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Erteszek Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ERTESZEK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Erteszek Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE ERTESZEK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Erteszek Foundation?

More from the funding graph