· Private foundation
The Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc
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 $10k12 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOLHOUSE WORLD INC | $75,000 |
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| 5280 HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| ACTIVATE WORK INC | $50,000 |
| MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE | $50,000 |
| CAREERWISE COLORADO | $50,000 |
| CROSSPURPOSE | $25,000 |
| ONE WORLD CHILDRENS FUND | $5,500 |
| FULLCIRCLE PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| FULLCIRCLE PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
| ACTIVATE WORK INC | $1,500 |
| ELEVATE NEW YORK | $1,000 |
| CAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- CCCAREERWISE COLORADO8× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +68%
- 5H5280 HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +32%
FII - NATIONAL5× · 2017–2021 · $251k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USAone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -23%- IHI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder Countyone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -21%
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.
To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.
Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
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…
Endeavor colorado is a not-for-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in colorado to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region. high-impact…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cube. 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 27 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 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.
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 CAREERWISE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds 5280 HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE WORK INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSEWORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CUBE ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MINDSPARK LEARNING ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds BIDWELL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW YORK INC ↗
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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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Morgridge Family Foundation · Adolph Coors 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 Mayer-Phillips Foundation Inc 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.
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