How much does The Halverson Foundation give?

The Halverson Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $87,015 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Halverson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), International (13%), Recreation & Sports (9%).

Who are The Halverson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yampa River Botanic Park Society ($50k), Kent Denver Country Day School ($46k), Africa School Assistance Project ($45k).

Does The Halverson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Halverson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Halverson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Gates Family Foundation.

Where is The Halverson Foundation based?

The Halverson Foundation is based in CO.

The Halverson Foundation

The Halverson Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$87k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$174kInternational$73kRecreation & Sports$51kEnvironment$39kHealth$37kPublic Benefit$31kFood & Nutrition$27kHuman Services$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k38 grants · $37k
$10k–50k3 grants · $50k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$924k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK	$30,000
AFRICA SCHOOL ASSISTANCE PROJECT	$10,000
ALAYA PRESCHOOL	$10,000
NORTHWEST COLORADO HEALTH	$3,000
LIFT UP OF ROUTT COUNTY	$3,000
WESTERN RESILIENCE CENTER	$2,500
URBAN PEAK	$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION	$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MTN	$2,000
CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY ETHICS	$2,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS	$2,000
TIDES FOUNDATION	$2,000
SOUTHERN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL	$1,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY	$1,000
PROPUBLICA	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$489k · 50 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$489k

$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+17%

Still filing today

70%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

YR
YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK SOCIETY
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +814%
KD
KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +75%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +79%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $5k
NI
NLSHIMACHI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
one grant, 2023 · $3k
MC
METRO CARINGgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +69%

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.

Npr Foundation

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…

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Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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…

Science & Tech

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

The Common Application Inc

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…

Education

The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment

Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy

Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Furman University

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.

Education

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mongabay Org Corp; 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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 84 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/57

Grantees still filing

44/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$216,035Education$116,400Environment$74,250International$69,500Health$31,296Human Services$23,750Food & Nutrition$23,750

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

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO26.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Halverson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Halverson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home