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The Flowe Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER ART MUSEUM$99,570
JUDI'S HOUSE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$7,500
GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$5,000
NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW$5,000
HISTORY COLORADO$2,500
DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$2,500
CU ANSHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS$2,500
VARIOUS DONEES 2500 OR LESS VARIOUS LOCATIONS$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $5k → 12%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$545k · 5 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$545k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+13%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesSocial ScienceRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $242k · revenue +17%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    4× · 2021–2024 · $144k
  • JH
    JUDI'S HOUSE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue -30%

Funded once

  • RF
    Rockley Family Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +13%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +91%
  • GL
    GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -24%
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
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
9
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
The Gardner School of Arts and Sciences

To cultivate authentic learning through integrated experiences in a supportive community.

Education
12
Lindenwood Education System

Real experience. real success.enhancing lives through quality education and professional preparatory experiences. see schedule o.values:we put our students first. we have an unwavering commitment to providing the highest quality education,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Denver Art Museum. 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

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 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER ART MUSEUM: $242,395 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM+3 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $144,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOVARIOUS DONEES 2500 OR LESS VARIOUS LOCATIONS: $23,700 · OtherVARIOUS DONEES 2500 OR LESS VAR…+2 more: $5,000 · OtherJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INCRockley Family Foundation: $40,275 · EducationRockley Famil…GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationGRALAND COUNT…THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $7,000 · Social ScienceACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$254,895Other$172,700Philanthropy$100,000Education$75,275Social Science$7,000Human Services$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

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
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.

Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 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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    The unnamed billions
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    The regranting layer
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    The endowment market
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    The camps
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    By state
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