· Private foundation
The Ronald Davis Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| HOPE HAVEN RWANDA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BUSH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS | $4,800 |
| THE PHOENIX THEATER | $4,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| BRAVO VAIL | $1,311 |
| HERBERGER THEATER CENTER | $1,010 |
| LBJ FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOUP FOR YOU | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- RARIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $126k · revenue +63%
- BFBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY3× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +104%
- HHHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- CMCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $250k
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $133k
- VRVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -72%
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.
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,…
We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
To advance the mission of front range community college by providing resources of time, expertise, and financial support to augment the state of colorado funding and thereby create, sustain or strengthen current and emerging centers of…
Eagle valley mental health (dba eagle valley behavioral health) primarily serves the behavioral health care needs of eagle county, and secondarily the region surrounding eagle county.
Together we create solutions for a better life.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 75 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 VAIL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Ski Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PROTECTION & EDUCATION RE ANIMALS CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Patrick and Donna Martin Family Foundation · James C Allen Charitable Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Slifer Family Foundation · Frampton Family Charitable Foundation · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · Helle Family 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 Ronald Davis 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.