· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities ofone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SSSkylark Schoolone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Raising A Reader ↗
- Who funds NEW CASTLE LEARNING ADVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds PALMER LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Mountain Club Ltd ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CRISIS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Spidell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Spidell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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