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The Flowe 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.

$151k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$99,570
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Flowe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationSocial ScienceArts & Culture
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$151k44%
FY20236$167k33%
FY20226$135k17%
FY20217$167kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$247kEducation$217kHuman Services$100kInternational$10kHealth$10kSocial Science$7kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Flowe Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDenver Art Museum: $242,395 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJudi's House Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRockley Family Foundation: $40,275 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGraland Country Day School: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Livingston Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAccess Opportunity: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Western Stock Show Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLion Global Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Center for the Performing Arts: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Rose Community FoundationCO15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Flowe Foundation

How much does The Flowe Foundation give?
The Flowe Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $151,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Flowe Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Education (35%), Human Services (16%).
Who are The Flowe Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Denver Art Museum ($242k), Judi's House Inc ($100k), Rockley Family Foundation ($40k).
Does The Flowe Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Flowe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Flowe Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is The Flowe Foundation based?
The Flowe Foundation is based in CO.

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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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