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The Macmeier 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.

$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Recreation & Sports$22kHealth$18kEnvironment$14kHuman Services$6kEducation$5kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$4kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW$5,500
CRAIG HOSPITAL$5,000
CHRON'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$5,000
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COLORADO WATER TRUST$5,000
FAX PARTNERSHIP$4,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKIES$4,000
BIRD CONSERVANCY OF THE ROCKIES$4,000
PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE$4,000
PROJECT WORTHMORE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY$2,500
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA$2,500
LA PUENTE$2,500
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 (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $3k → 14%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $3k → 8%RAY OF HOPE: $1k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS: $500 → 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.

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 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
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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2
Colorado Press Association

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…

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3
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
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
5
Community Radio for Northern Colorado

Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
7
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
8
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
9
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
10
Colorado Headwaters Land Trust

To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.

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11
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

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,…

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12
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Public Library Friends Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ray of Hope Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr20%19%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr20%22%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr13%47%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
12%
4,993/42,807

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

28 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. 28 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
12/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPARTNERS SEEKING A CURE — $4,000 · OtherPARTNERS SEEKING A CUREPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKIES — $4,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKIESIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY — $2,500 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYLA PUENTE HOME INC — $2,500 · OtherLA PUENTE HOME INCIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY — $4,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORYWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,402 · OtherASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Other+14 more — $13,666 · Other+14 moreTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $19,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW A…Denver Park Trust — $1,500 · Recreation & SportsDenver Park TrustSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthCROHN'S & …Craig Hospital — $5,000 · HealthCraig Hosp…ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $5,000 · EnvironmentROARING FO…COLORADO WATER TRUST — $5,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO W…PROJECT WORTHMORE — $3,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesRAY OF HOPE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $500 · Human ServicesKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $500 · EducationEAST DENVER COLFAX PARTNERSHIP INC — $4,000 · Community Improvement
Other$45,068Recreation & Sports$22,000Health$10,000Environment$10,000Human Services$7,000Education$5,000Community Improvement$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $19,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST DENVER COLFAX PARTNERSHIP INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,402 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Park Trust — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $1,236 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greenway Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARBONDALE ARTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Base — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Gates Family Foundati…The Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Schlessman Foundation…Ima FoundationMaffei FoundationAspen Business Center…The Colorado Trust
Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.3× affinity14 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 · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Maffei Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · The Colorado Trust

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 Macmeier 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Macmeier Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Macmeier 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 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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