· Private foundation
The Gilman Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER ACADEMY | $11,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| SYMPHONY OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THACHER SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MESA VERDE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $2,400 |
| BLACK BELT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DENVER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $2,000 |
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | $2,000 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $1,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $1,000 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPATORY THEATER | $1,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of your 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- DADENVER ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +5%
- TSTHE ST FRANCIS CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +42%
- DBDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +20%
- MVMESA VERDE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +64%
- HCHIGHLINE CANAL CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2020 · $250
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.
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…
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Protect the financial security and mission of denver botanic gardens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Mesa Verde 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 65 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE NOW THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Gilman Family 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.
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.