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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$907kCrime & Legal$405kFood & Nutrition$319kEnvironment$227kCommunity Improvement$165kHuman Services$150kAnimals$147kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $800k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grabhorn Institute$225,000
Greenlight Fund Inc$150,000
Soroco High School$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
International Rescue Committee Inc$25,000
Taft School Corporation$25,000
Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc$20,000
Theravada Dhamma Society of Minnesota$20,000
Mountain Valley Horse Rescue$20,000
Intown Collaborative Ministries$10,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TFALLS FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%Bearing Bike Shop Inc: $5k → 13%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40k → 7%OPERATION HAT TRICK: $10k → 5%TFALLS FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%Intown Collaborative Ministries: $10k → 13%TFALLS FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
AZ
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 38 repeat orgs$870k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
52

Total granted

$3.8M
$637k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GI
    GRABHORN INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +154%
  • DP
    DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $510k · revenue +122%
  • FS
    FRESH START NEW BEGINNING
    5× · 2019–2023 · $395k · revenue +67% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • IC
    INTEGRATED COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -19%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HI
    HOLY INNOCENTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Aia Colorado

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…

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3
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

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.

Environment
4
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
5
Augustana College

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…

Education
6
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

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,…

Education
7
Colorado Farm Bureau

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.

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8
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education
9
Colorado State University Foundation

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…

Education
10
Colorado Bar Association

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,…

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11
Colorado League of Charter Schools

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.

Education
12
Denver Public Schools Foundation

Denver public schools foundation is a catalyst for change in dps.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 99 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $510,000 · EducationDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS…GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $141,000 · EducationGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $140,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $135,000 · EducationGREENHOUSE SCHOLARSDENISON UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYDENVER KIDS INC: $50,000 · Education+9 more: $117,500 · Education+9 moreSoroco High School: $270,000 · OtherSoroco High SchoolUNIVERSITY PREP INC: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY PREP INCSOUTH ROUTT LIBRARY FRIENDS: $100,000 · OtherSOUTH ROUTT LIBRARY FRIENDSCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 · OtherTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $104,172 · OtherTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATIONInternational Rescue Committee INC: $115,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INCChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $77,000 · Other+56 more: $750,000 · Other+56 moreGRABHORN INSTITUTE: $625,000 · Arts & CultureGRABHORN INSTITUTEAtlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab: $110,000 · Arts & CultureAtlanta Educational…DENVER ART MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $42,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH START NEW BEGINNING: $395,000 · EmploymentFRESH STA…INTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $100,000 · Human ServicesTFalls Foundation Inc: $55,000 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HAT TRICK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesINTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $205,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,218,500Other$1,604,172Arts & Culture$807,000Employment$395,000Human Services$235,000Environment$207,500Community Improvement$167,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRABHORN INSTITUTE: $625,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $510,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetFRESH START NEW BEGINNING: $395,000 over 5y, 97% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $205,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $141,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $135,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREP INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAtlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab: $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $104,172 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $77,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTFalls Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM: $51,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE: $32,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Legacy Charter School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Saddle Horse Museum Association Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarly Childhood Partnership of Adams Cou: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA FAMILIES AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE I: $12,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION HAT TRICK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrand County Blues Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetODYSSEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIlluminate Colorado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEE COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…Rose Community Founda…Gates Family Foundati…The Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Daniels FundThe Hampshire Foundat…Misty Meadows Foundat…Caring for Colorado F…Boettcher Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO37.3× affinity21 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Hbb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hbb Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 99 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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