· Private foundation
The Kappler Marrack 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $50,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC | $10,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI | $5,000 |
| THE MAXFUND INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF COLOR | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC | $5,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUPPY RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HACK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLORADO METH PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| OCEANA INC | $5,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +25% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH7× · 2018–2024 · $153k · revenue +35%- SHSWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +1%
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCYone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -2%
- WGWILDEARTH GUARDIANSone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%
- ALA LITTLE HELPone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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.
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…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Kramerica Gives. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 56 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 NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO METH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BEAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Center of Denver ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT KENNY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KRAMERICA GIVES ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CEASEFIRE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
- Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
- Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Puppy Rescue ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds STOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC (SAFE) PROJECT US ↗
- Who funds NIJC NFP ↗
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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Colorado Dental Service Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz 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 Kappler Marrack 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% 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.