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The Richard Petritz Foundation at a glance

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The Richard Petritz Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$269kArts & Culture$14kYouth Development$11kHuman Services$10kEducation$5kCivil Rights$5kCommunity Improvement$5kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN CO COMM FOUNDATION$60,000
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF CO INC$5,000
COLO SPGS WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL$500
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%One Good Turn: $5k → 8%Fostering Hope Foundation: $3k → 9%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 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
Aia Colorado

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…

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2
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…

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5
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado Council On Economic Education

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…

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7
The Colorado State Fair Foundation

To enhance youth programming, education and experiences at the colorado state fair.

Arts & Culture
8
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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9
Destination Colorado Meetings

a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…

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10
Colorado Thrives

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

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Highway. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDAT: $107,800 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN CO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $71,500 · OtherSOUTHERN CO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN CO COMM FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CO COMM FOUNDATIONForge Evolution (Colorado Springs Teen Court): $5,500 · Other+8 more: $25,741 · Other+8 moreOne Good Turn: $4,900 · Human ServicesFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesPARENTS CHALLENGE: $5,000 · EducationTrails and Open Space Coalition: $5,000 · Civil RightsForge Evolution: $5,000 · Crime & LegalROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $850 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $2,500 · International
Philanthropy$197,800Other$162,741Human Services$7,400Education$5,000Civil Rights$5,000Crime & Legal$5,000Arts & Culture$4,350International$2,500

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 budgetSOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDAT: $107,800 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTS CHALLENGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetForge Evolution: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOne Good Turn: $4,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY: $3,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRwanda Children: $526 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $500 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.

Pikes Peak Community …El Pomar FoundationINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Richard Petritz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard Petritz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 22 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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