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The Pellish Foundation for the Arts at a glance

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The Pellish Foundation for the Arts

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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$169kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$2kInternational$992Youth Development$500Philanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$314k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$600
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $100 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
CT
CO
MO
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 4 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
23

Total granted

$171k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +76%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $51k · revenue +21%
  • TM
    THE MAXFUND INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • NE
    NOONAN'S EVENT CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • VP
    VETERAN'S PUPPY FOR LIFE
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
8
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
9
Donor Network West

Donor network west is the federally designated organ procurement organization serving northern california and northern nevada. the service area includes nearly 14 million people across 100,000 square miles. approximately 110,000 people are…

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10
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
11
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
12
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $90,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51,100 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $50 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $27,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…Individual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…NOONAN'S EVENT CENTER: $3,475 · OtherNOONAN'S EVENT CENTERVETERAN'S PUPPY FOR LIFE: $2,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $1,821 · Other+11 more: $1,811 · OtherTHE MAXFUND INC: $2,700 · AnimalsBergen Spay and Neuter Alliance: $250 · AnimalsMAP International Inc: $500 · InternationalWINGS OF HOPE: $140 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $105 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $102 · InternationalBlossom Hill Foundation Inc: $250 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $200 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $325 · Food & NutritionDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $100 · Food & NutritionMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $400 · Philanthropy
Education$141,250Other$41,107Animals$2,950International$847Arts & Culture$450Food & Nutrition$425Philanthropy$400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $90,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBergen Spay and Neuter Alliance: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlossom Hill Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ESPERANZA EDUCATION FUND INC: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Pellish Foundation for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pellish Foundation for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The Pellish Foundation for the Arts?

Find your warmest path to The Pellish Foundation for the Arts 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 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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