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The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF

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.

$233k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Health$327kEducation$145kHuman Services$143kEnvironment$96kCivil Rights$85kPhilanthropy$75kArts & Culture$60kFood & Nutrition$35kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$593k
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$35,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,500
FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW$20,000
HILLEL OF COLORADO$10,000
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES$10,000
KENT DENVER SCHOOL$10,000
JEWISHCOLORADO$10,000
Colorado Institute of Developmental Pediatrics Inc$10,000
THERE WITH CARE$7,500
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$7,250
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,500
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,186
WISH FOR WHEELS$5,000
GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE$5,000
LIVLYME FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Brigid Alliance: $2k → 17%A Precious Child: $1k → 5%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $500 → 17%A Precious Child: $1k → 5%THERE WITH CARE: $8k → 12%Wee Cycle: $3k → 8%There With Care: $5k → 12%There With Care: $5k → 12%Denver Children's Foundation: $9k → 12%Denver Active 20-30 Children's Foundation: $7k → 12%Denver Children's Foundation: $4k → 12%Denver Active 20-30 Children's Foundation: $2k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $25k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $12k → 12%Women's Foundation of Colorado: $17k → 12%The Women's Foundation of Colorado: $5k → 12%The Women's Foundation of Colorado: $5k → 12%SAME Cafe: $3k → 12%WISH FOR WHEELS: $5k → 12%So All May Eat Inc: $3k → 12%Wish for Wheels: $3k → 12%SO ALL MAY EAT INC DBA SAME CAFE: $3k → 12%Adoption Options: $500 → 12%Wish for Wheels: $1k → 12%Raise the Future: $500 → 12%Wish for Wheels: $1k → 12%Warren Village: $3k → 12%Warren Village: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NH
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$897k · 53 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
50

Total granted

$897k
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

83%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $119k · revenue +35%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $52k · revenue +34%
  • KD
    KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • HL
    HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • ER
    EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
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
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
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
6
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
8
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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9
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
10
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
11
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sweetfeet. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development & Educati…Jewish Educational & Cultur…Animal Rescue and WelfareFamily Philanthropic Founda…Youth Arts Education & Perf…Supportive Housing & Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%41%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/111
the rest of the field
13%
4,365/33,306

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.

04the grantee network

105 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. 105 of the 136 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/105
Grantees still filing
66/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYEvans Scholars Foundation — $100,000 · OtherEvans Scholars FoundationTemple Emanuel — $57,966 · OtherTemple EmanuelCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC — $50,000 · OtherCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $48,634 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYWestern Golf Association Evans Scholars — $25,000 · OtherHigh Fives Foundation — $25,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $29,000 · Other+71 more — $277,707 · Other+71 moreNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $119,800 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHCraig Hospital Foundation — $118,500 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundati…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $32,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED …Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $19,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Col…+11 more — $37,300 · Health+11 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College — $60,000 · EducationTrustees o…KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $50,500 · EducationKENT DENVE…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $5,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $5,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $5,000 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADO — $5,000 · Education+6 more — $8,800 · Education+6 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $26,550 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'…The Denver Children's Foundation — $21,600 · Human ServicesThe Denver…THERE WITH CARE — $17,500 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH…Wish for Wheels Inc — $9,500 · Human ServicesWish for W…SO ALL MAY EAT INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesSO ALL MAY…GIVEDIRECTLY INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human Services+6 more — $8,000 · Human Services+6 moreEARTHJUSTICE — $30,000 · EnvironmentEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $28,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $19,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $12,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $52,000 · Civil RightsCONSERVATION COLORADO — $30,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $2,500 · Civil RightsRose Community Foundation — $51,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColorado — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $7,250 · PhilanthropyThe Les Streeter Program Inc — $3,700 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$713,307Health$326,600Education$144,800Human Services$143,150Environment$95,500Civil Rights$84,500Philanthropy$74,950

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $119,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $118,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $52,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $51,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $50,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $48,634 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $28,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $26,550 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation — $21,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $11,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISHColorado — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWish for Wheels Inc — $9,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSO ALL MAY EAT INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $7,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER MITU INC — $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCapitol Hill Community Services — $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLISTEN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationSchlessman Foundation…The Janus Henderson F…The Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationWestern Union Foundat…Gates Family Foundati…Robert E & Anne T Sne…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO48.9× affinity29 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 · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Robert E & Anne T Sneed Aka 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 Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF?

Find your warmest path to The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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