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The Moniker 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$286k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$654kPhilanthropy$653kFood & Nutrition$192kYouth Development$174kHuman Services$163kHealth$144kArts & Culture$121kEnvironment$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $573k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $293k
  • $250k+1 grant · $286k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONIKER DONOR ADVISED FUND$286,018
FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$160,000
PEAK EDUCATION$82,000
THE MINDFULNESS AND POSITIVITY PROJECT$51,000
THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION$40,000
FLYING PIG FARM$27,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$22,000
YAMPATIKA$20,000
SMART BELLIES$17,000
LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION$16,000
KIDS ON BIKES$15,000
DURANGO EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
REACHING EVERYONE PREVENTING SUICIDE$15,000
FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUTH CLOSET AND TOYCHEST: $1k → 7%PINE RIVER SHARES: $10k → 12%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $6k → 11%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 12%ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE: $3k → 11%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $2k → 12%YOUNG TRACKS INC: $15k → 6%BETTER TOMORROW: $10k → 6%INTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $10k → 6%CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE: $10k → 9%LIFTUP ROUTT COUNTY: $8k → 6%YAMPA VALLEY AUTISM PROGRAM: $6k → 6%COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%KINGDOM BUILDERS FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $10k → 9%COMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%STEAMBOAT SPRINGS DISCOVERY LEARNING CENTER: $1k → 6%EARLY CONNECTIONS LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 9%DIAKONIA: $5k → 9%LIFTUP ROUTT COUNTY: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 30 repeat orgs$834k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
46

Total granted

$4.3M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $422k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VR
    VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.9M · revenue +110% · 45% of their budget
  • PE
    Peak Education
    2× · 2024–2025 · $127k · revenue +58%
  • CM
    COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRESCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD FARM
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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2
High Rockies Community School

Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…

Education
3
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
4
The Pinon Project

The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.

Human Services
5
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
6
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment
7
Community School Collaborative

To provide innovative career exploration and work-based learning opportunities that prepare youth to enter tomorrow's workforce and build fulfilling lives.

Education
8
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
9
Routt County Economic Development Partnership

The purpose(s) of the Partnership is to improve the quality of life and economic well-being across Routt County by: (i) enabling business and job retention to increase employment and improve the public welfare, (ii) promoting and assisting…

Community Improvement
10
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
11
Ascend College Prep

Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…

Education
12
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sos Outreach; the most unlike its peers is Seed Peace. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 101 of the 135 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/101
Grantees still filing
35/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $2,883,645 · OtherVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONMONIKER DONOR ADVISED FUND: $552,852 · OtherMONIKER DONOR ADVISED FUND+70 more: $718,039 · Other+70 moreTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $310,750 · EducationTHE FORT LEW…Peak Education: $127,000 · EducationPeak Educati…FLYING PIG FARM: $47,000 · EducationFLYING PIG F…Atlas Preparatory School Inc: $20,000 · Education+11 more: $82,500 · Education+11 moreCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG TRACKS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPine River Shares: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Catamount Institute: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBETTER TOMORROW: $10,000 · Human ServicesINTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $10,000 · Human ServicesKingdom Builders Family Life Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesInterfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs: $10,000 · Human ServicesAlternatives to Violence Inc: $9,100 · Human ServicesLift Up of Routt County: $9,000 · Human ServicesYampa Valley Autism Program: $5,500 · Human ServicesDiakonia: $5,000 · Human Services+6 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesMindfulness and Positivity Project: $51,000 · HealthBuilding Hope Summit County: $20,000 · HealthWARHORSE RANCH: $12,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 · HealthDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $10,000 · HealthSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $5,000 · HealthTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $10,309 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK UNITED WAY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySTILLWATER MUSIC: $10,750 · Arts & Culturei AM Music Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO NEW PLAY FESTIVAL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMANITOU ART THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE PARADISE THEATER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDURANGO ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePAONIA PLAYERS: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureYAMPATIKA: $40,000 · EnvironmentMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $11,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE: $10,000 · EnvironmentYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL: $10,000 · Environment+5 more: $8,250 · Environment
Other$4,154,536Education$587,250Human Services$143,600Health$108,500Philanthropy$105,309Arts & Culture$79,750Environment$79,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $2,883,645 over 4y, 45% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $310,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPeak Education: $127,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMindfulness and Positivity Project: $51,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFLYING PIG FARM: $47,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetYAMPATIKA: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSMART BELLIES: $32,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBuilding Hope Summit County: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAFE FOOD RESCUE: $17,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION: $16,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG TRACKS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWARHORSE RANCH: $12,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTILLWATER MUSIC: $10,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPine River Shares: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgeti AM Music Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAnimas High School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOU ART THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARADISE THEATER: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPIKES PEAK UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLa Plata Youth Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Documentary Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPARENTS CHALLENGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMancos Valley Dragonfly School: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAlternatives to Violence Inc: $9,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLift Up of Routt County: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Resource Center in Durango: $5,750 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPADOWNA: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…Gates Family Foundati…The Colorado Health F…Pikes Peak Community …Community Foundation …The Joseph Henry Edmo…Rocky Mountain Health…Daniels FundCraig-Scheckman Famil…Ballantine Family Fund
El Pomar FoundationCO87× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Daniels Fund · Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · Ballantine Family Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Moniker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Moniker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    54report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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