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The Humphreys 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ACTION CENTER (JEFFERSON COUNTY | $8,000 |
| DENVER INNER CITY PARISH | $6,000 |
| COLORADO UPLIFT | $5,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DENVER | $5,000 |
| ASPEN PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN | $4,000 |
| SCHOLARS UNLIMITED | $4,000 |
| KARIS COMMUNITY HOME | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION - | $4,000 |
| VALLEY SETTLEMENT PROJECT | $4,000 |
| CONFLICT CENTER | $4,000 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $4,000 |
| EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CUCOLORADO UPLIFT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +12%
- TCTHE CONFLICT CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +60%
- IIINVEST IN KIDS9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- CCCOLORADO CPR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $9k
- HSHEALTH SETone grant, 2017 · $3k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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…
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.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Center On Law and Policy and the most unlike its peers is Bessies Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 63 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 COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds Denver Inner City Parish Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CONFLICT CENTER ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC ↗
- Who funds Deer Hill Foundation ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MUSEUM OF MINING & INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOMFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEMPE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Berglund Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Western Union Foundation · Anschutz Family 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 Humphreys 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.
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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