· Private foundation
The Marson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Independent Gift Fund | $6,200 |
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 (FY17–23, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WCWESTSIDE CARES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +65%
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +34%
- COCASA of the Pikes Peak Region7× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ATASCENDING TO HEALTH RESPITE CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +156%
- FOFriends of the Children - Coloradoone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
- FPFamily Promise of Colorado Springsone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
To empower Coloradans affected by mental health conditions and providing them with skills and tools necessary to achieve their personal wellness goal.
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…
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Sunshine home share colorado ensures quality of life for older adults and strengthens communities through a safe home-sharing model, supportive economic empowerment, and connections to resources and services.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
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.
To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Springs Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% 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 14% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 66 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 WESTSIDE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
- Who funds Cheyenne Village ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds Special Kids-Special Families Inc ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kidpower of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds GRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TESSA ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds B COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING ↗
- Who funds ASCENDING TO HEALTH RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK JUSTICE & PRO BONO CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Children - Colorado ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO LIONS CAMP ↗
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 Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable 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 Marson 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.