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The Flunison Fund
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VISION HEALTH INTERNATIONAL | $4,100 |
| ASPEN JOURNALISM | $2,500 |
| KIDS AID | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ST BARTHOLOMEW'S ANGELICAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| WILDERNES WORKSHOP | $2,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $1,500 |
| COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST | $1,500 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIV FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| ART BASE | $1,500 |
| ASPEN CHAPEL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against -79% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- GVGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +16%
- VHVISION HEALTH INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +141%
- AJAspen Journalism6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- 11500one grant, 2022 · $2k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue -79%
- GIGIBSON ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $50
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
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…
Aces' mission is to inspire a life-long commitment to the earth by providing innovative and immersive programming for all ages.
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
To advance the public understanding of science through lifelong discovery, exploration and education.
To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
The glen canyon institute has dedicated its resources to the restoration of the glen canyon and a free flowing colorado river
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Loma Cat House Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds VISION HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Aspen Journalism ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Art Base ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS AID KIDS AID ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GJ BLACKOUT ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Tenth Mountain Division Hut Assn Inc 10th Mountain ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Loma Cat House Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
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 · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Arches Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Brady Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · Dornick Foundation Inc · Ruth a Carver Foundation · The Thrift Shop
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 Flunison Fund 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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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