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The Greenlee Family Foundation at a glance

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The Greenlee Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$82kHuman Services$65kFood & Nutrition$23kHealth$15kInternational$10kHousing & Shelter$10kCommunity Improvement$5kEnvironment$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO FRIENDSHIP$7,500
BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD$6,800
IMAGINE FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $5k → 7%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39k · 3 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$39k
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-27%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • CF
    COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +41%
  • BE
    BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue -27%
  • AP
    AMAZON PROMISE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue -28%

Funded once

  • SC
    SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • AH
    AVISTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
2
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
3
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc

To create avenues to stable housing for our community's homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter.

Housing & Shelter
4
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
5
Fremont Search and Rescue Inc

All volunteer search and rescue

—
6
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
7
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Streets Hope

Street's Hope provides direct services to human trafficking survivors in Colorado. Services including housing assisstance, housing support and a range of behavioral health services.

Human Services
10
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc

To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.

Human Services
11
Boulder Mountainbike Alliance

The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…

Recreation & Sports
12
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sister Carmen Community Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AVISTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherAVISTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONAMERICAN RED CROSS: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY: $10,000 · OtherSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEYMUSANA: $10,000 · OtherMUSANAPEACEWORKS INC: $5,000 · OtherPEACEWORKS INCSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER …SparkHope Automotive: $5,000 · Human ServicesSparkHope AutomotiveIMAGINE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesIMAGINE FOUNDATIONCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC: $17,500 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO FR…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY F…BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $11,800 · Public Safety & DisasterBOULDER EME…BOULDER COUNTY INJURED AND FALLEN OFFICER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBOULDER COU…AMAZON PROMISE: $10,000 · InternationalRocky Mountain Microfinance: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE: $5,000 · EnvironmentRise Against Suicide: $5,000 · Health
Other$85,000Human Services$60,000Food & Nutrition$22,500Public Safety & Disaster$21,800International$10,000Community Improvement$5,000Environment$5,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC: $17,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $11,800 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAMAZON PROMISE: $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY INJURED AND FALLEN OFFICER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Microfinance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIMAGINE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEACEWORKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $5,000 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.

Community Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationCollins FoundationAEC TrustAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Collins Foundation · AEC Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Greenlee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greenlee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 16 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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