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The Meyers Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER | $2,500 |
| DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME | $1,300 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB NEWPORT | $1,000 |
| DENVER HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| ACTIVATE WORK INC | $1,000 |
| DENVER CENTER PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS METRO DENVER | $1,000 |
| COLORADO FORUM FUND | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| ROSE ANDOM CENTER | $750 |
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 (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 33% of The Meyers Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +10% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +79%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%
- CTCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- MHMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADOone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +12%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADOgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +29%
- USUnited States Ski Team Foundationone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +5%
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 connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
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 education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
Better leaders create a better colorado. through immersive programs, civic engagement, and lifelong connection, the leadership foundation helps people and businesses unlock their potential and use it to drive meaningful change. we develop…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 31 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STOKED MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE WORK INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FORUM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE NOTE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
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 · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Ima Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Meyers Family 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.
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