· Private foundation
The Halverson 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 $10k38 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK | $30,000 |
| ALAYA PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AFRICA SCHOOL ASSISTANCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| LIFT UP OF ROUTT COUNTY | $3,000 |
| NORTHWEST COLORADO HEALTH | $3,000 |
| URBAN PEAK | $2,500 |
| WESTERN RESILIENCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY ETHICS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MTN | $2,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- YRYAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +814%
- KDKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +75%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- NINLSHIMACHI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
- MCMETRO CARINGgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +69%
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mongabay Org Corp and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 84 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 YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AFRICA SCHOOL ASSISTANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Lift Up of Routt County ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Records Johnston Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health 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 Halverson 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.
- Project Innerspace Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.