· Private foundation
The Spidell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Glenwood Springs High School | $13,500 |
| Return to Dirt Foundation | $10,000 |
| Church at Woodmoor | $7,000 |
| Natl Museum WWII Aviation | $5,000 |
| First UMC | $5,000 |
| Glenwood Springs Summer of Music | $4,000 |
| Court Care for the Pikes Peak Regio | $3,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House of So Colorad | $2,000 |
| Women's Crisis Services | $2,000 |
| Rotary Foundation | $1,000 |
| Kiwanis Club of Monument | $1,000 |
| Rocky Mountain PBS | $500 |
| Palmer Lake Historical Society | $500 |
| Western Museum of MiningIndustry | $500 |
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 (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- RTReturn to Dirt6× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +72%
- WMWESTERN MUSEUM OF MINING & INDUSTRY6× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +46%
- GSGlenwood Springs Summer of Music Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities ofone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SSSkylark Schoolone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Produce annual summer music series
To educate the public about the history of our area.
Rmmi is a non profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of western coal through education. member states are arizona, colorado, montana, new mexico, north dakota, texas, utah, and wyoming. the institute is proud to claim members from…
The Gunnison Arts Center creates community through the arts by providing accessible and inclusive programs, events, and educational experiences that foster creativity, support local artists, and enrich lives.
Fraser Valley Community Media operates community radio stations KFFR 88.3 FM and KWTR 89.1 FM to unite Grand County, Colorado, by broadcasting local music, news, cultural programming, youth education, and civic information.
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…
Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.
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…
The rocky mountain world trade center association provides sustained value to its constituents by being the private sector focal point for international business in denver and throughout the rocky mountain region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mountain Club Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 40 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 Return to Dirt ↗
- Who funds TRI LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MUSEUM OF MINING & INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds Glenwood Springs Summer of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE SAFEHOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW CASTLE LEARNING ADVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds PALMER LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Raising A Reader ↗
- Who funds The Mountain Club Ltd ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CRISIS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Spidell 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.