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The Precourt Foundation

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$7.0MHealth$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.9MPublic Benefit$633kArts & Culture$407kEnvironment$211kYouth Development$122kAnimals$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $547k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Amos Tuck School of Business$260,000
St Andrews School$176,667
Denver Art Museum$110,000
Hoover Institution$110,000
4ATX Foundation$100,000
Duke University$50,000
Punta Mita Hospital Foundation$30,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$27,000
YouthPower365$20,000
The Denver Hospice$20,000
Waterloo Greenway Conservancy$20,000
Global Down Syndrome Foundation$17,500
Vail Veterans Program$15,000
Vail Valley Foundation$10,100
Steadman Philippon Research Institute$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $61k) 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%Southeastern Guide Dogs: $2k → 10%Project Glimmer: $3k → 10%RxART: $10k → 17%Southeastern Guide Dogs: $2k → 10%Project Glimmer: $3k → 10%Southeastern Guide Dogs: $2k → 10%Project Glimmer: $2k → 10%Southeastern Guide Dogs: $2k → 10%The Denver Hospice: $20k → 12%Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1k → 10%Helping Hand Home for Children: $7k → 10%Helping Hnad Home for Children: $5k → 10%Helping Hand Home for Children: $3k → 10%Raise the Future: $1k → 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

NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 73 repeat orgs$709k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
38

Total granted

$8.1M
$597k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+27%

Still filing today

64%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • VH
    VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +37%
  • 4F
    4ATX FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +23% · 99% of their budget
  • IW
    Independent Women's Forum
    4× · 2019–2022 · $578k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • TS
    Tuck School
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • CT
    CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -80%
  • CM
    Colorado Museum of Natural History
    one grant, 2023 · $48k · revenue +3%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
3
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
4
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
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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…

Science & Tech
7
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue. 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

86 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. 86 of the 123 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
63/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,345,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFO…PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $385,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY+12 more: $269,400 · Education+12 moreAmos Tuck School of Business: $810,000 · OtherAmos Tuck School of Busine…Sacred Heart School: $531,000 · OtherSacred Heart SchoolTuck School: $250,000 · OtherTuck SchoolSt Andrews School: $201,667 · OtherSt Andrews SchoolPunta Mita Hospital Foundation: $105,000 · Other+66 more: $1,186,169 · Other+66 moreVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,009,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERVIC…+8 more: $133,500 · Health+8 more4ATX FOUNDATION: $1,350,500 · Recreation & Sports4ATX FOUNDATIONUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $305,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SO…LONESTAR SOCCER CLUB OF AUSTIN INC: $165,000 · Recreation & SportsLONESTAR SOCCER …+6 more: $45,500 · Recreation & SportsIndependent Women's Forum: $577,500 · Civil RightsDENVER ART MUSEUM: $206,700 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History: $48,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $42,000 · Arts & CultureVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $28,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC: $23,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $37,000 · Arts & CultureVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesRX ART INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT GLIMMER: $6,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$4,999,400Other$3,083,836Health$2,142,500Recreation & Sports$1,866,000Civil Rights$577,500Arts & Culture$385,200Human Services$143,500

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,345,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,009,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budget4ATX FOUNDATION: $1,350,500 over 6y, 99% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $577,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $385,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $305,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $206,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLONESTAR SOCCER CLUB OF AUSTIN INC: $165,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $58,334 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $48,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $42,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $35,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTholos Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS: $31,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $28,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $25,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEQUINE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM: $18,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTROUBLESOME HORSE RESCUE: $12,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE: $12,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRX ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 4ATX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LONESTAR SOCCER CLUB OF AUSTIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Tholos Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
  • Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE ↗

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO42.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · Borgen Family Foundation · Kelton Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Slifer Family Foundation · Caulkins Family Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · United Jewish 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 Precourt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Precourt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report 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.
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How do I get to The Precourt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Precourt Foundation 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 123 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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