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The Fries Foundation

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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$5.1MArts & Culture$4.6MHuman Services$677kHealth$285kPhilanthropy$198kPublic Safety & Disaster$145kInternational$134kPublic Benefit$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$703k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC$25,000
GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE$25,000
GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION$25,000
GRACE WAY VILLAGE$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $660k) 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.

area typical 9%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 11%GRACE WAY VILLAGE: $5k → 13%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 11%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 11%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 9 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
30

Total granted

$6.6M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+41%

Still filing today

89%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • SL
    SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $655k · revenue +162%
  • DP
    DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2023 · $225k · revenue +167%
  • S
    SERIESFEST
    4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +53%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund (obsolete)
    one grant, 2021 · $475k
  • DH
    DENVER HYBRID COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +131%

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.

1
International School of Denver

Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.

Education
2
Denver Academy Inc

Education of students with learning differences

Education
3
Aia Colorado

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…

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4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
7
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
8
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
9
Colorado Association of School Executives

Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education

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10
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
11
Fund for the New School Boulder Country Day School

Boulder country day school provides a well-rounded education of academic excellence and character development in a safe environment, empowering our students to reach their full potential as lifelong learners and responsible, globally aware…

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12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr20%38%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr12%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
12%
4,216/34,293

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
26/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,650,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN T…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP — $235,000 · EducationDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORPDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $225,000 · EducationDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION+8 more — $379,167 · Education+8 moreMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER — $3,075,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVERSERIESFEST — $145,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $110,800 · Arts & CultureWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund — $2,030,595 · OtherWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The We…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund (obsolete) — $475,000 · OtherWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The We…+10 more — $153,600 · Other+10 moreSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC — $655,000 · Human Services+2 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $175,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF KARDIAS FOUNDATION ATTN SERGIO LAGUNES — $100,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $10,000 · HealthASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $88,160 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropySTREET CHILD US — $58,964 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · International
Education$3,989,167Arts & Culture$3,330,800Other$2,659,195Human Services$670,000Health$285,000Philanthropy$199,660International$83,964

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER — $3,075,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,650,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC — $655,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP — $235,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSERIESFEST — $145,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetDENVER HYBRID COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTANLEY BRITISH PRIMARY SCHOOL — $90,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $88,160 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSTREET CHILD US — $58,964 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetStrive Preparatory Schools — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Green — $35,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $25,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONBOX STUDIO — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSchool in the Woods Montessori School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEast High Angel Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLATTEFORUM — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGRACE WAY VILLAGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC DENVER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DENVER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Garden Montessori School — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Anna and John J S…Mile High United Way …The Anschutz Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationGates Family Foundati…The Colorado Health F…Libertygives Foundati…The Janus Henderson F…Aspen Community Found…
Rose Community FoundationCO28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Aspen Community 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 Fries 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Grace Way Village Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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