· Private foundation
The Laff 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMHERST COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND | $25,200 |
| VAR CASH DONATIONS OF 500 OR LESS | $8,044 |
| NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FOUND | $2,621 |
| LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF COLORADO | $2,600 |
| PROJECT PAVE | $1,000 |
| JVS SOCAL | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S GREATER LOS ANGELES | $750 |
| CENTRAL CITY OPERA | $500 |
| NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW | $500 |
| STANFORD LAW SCHOOL | $500 |
| COLORADO JUDICIAL INSTITUTE | $500 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN COLORADO | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOPERA COLORADO4× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +30%
- DYDENVER YOUTH PROGRAM5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +236%
- DBDENVER BAR FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- VCVARIOUS CASH DONATIONS OF 500one grant, 2023 · $10k
- SLSTANDFORD LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1k
- CLCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
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.
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,…
Funding of legal services, pro-bono, and legal education projects.
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 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…
To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide an organized, sustained program of continuing education for the colorado legal profession.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DENVER YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PAVE INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO JUDICIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds 365 HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Jess & Rose Kortz & Pearle Rae Levey Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Bardsley Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Laff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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