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The Hbb Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grabhorn Institute | $225,000 |
| Soroco High School | $150,000 |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $150,000 |
| Denver Public Library Friends Foundation | $100,000 |
| Atlanta Educational Telecommunications | $100,000 |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc | $75,000 |
| South Routt Library Friends | $40,000 |
| University of Texas Foundation | $37,500 |
| Western Stock Show Association | $30,000 |
| Taft School Corporation | $25,000 |
| International Rescue Committee Inc | $25,000 |
| Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc | $20,000 |
| Theravada Dhamma Society of Minnesota | $20,000 |
| Mountain Valley Horse Rescue | $20,000 |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k 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
- GIGRABHORN INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +154%
- DPDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $510k · revenue +122%
- FSFRESH START NEW BEGINNING5× · 2019–2023 · $395k · revenue +67% · 97% of their budget
Funded once
- ICINTEGRATED COMMUNITYone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -19%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HIHOLY INNOCENTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
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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…
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.
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
To advance the interest of the colorado farm and ranch community. activities include research and inquiry into the fields of agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, economic and political relations.
To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.
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…
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,…
To improve student achievement by supporting colorado's charter schools, positively reshaping the public school landscape, and advancing opportunities for innovation and expanded high-quality public school choice.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Lee County Fair Association. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 99 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 GRABHORN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH START NEW BEGINNING ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY PREP INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds TFalls Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds New Legacy Charter School ↗
- Who funds American Saddle Horse Museum Association Inc ↗
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 · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · The Hampshire Foundation · Misty Meadows Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Boettcher 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 Hbb 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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.
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