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The Telluray 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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$17MHealth$4.2MEducation$4.2MEnvironment$3.5MFood & Nutrition$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MRecreation & Sports$928kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $354k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $759k
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION$500,000
CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$259,031
LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$164,728
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$150,000
LITTLETON TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER$150,000
LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$116,571
AMBLESIDE SCHOOL OF COLORADO$100,000
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES$100,000
BRIDGE HOUSE$100,000
TACT KIDS INC$100,000
SOUTH SUBURBAN PARKS AND RECREATION$87,600
ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$80,246
DENVER URBAN GARDENS$75,000
INVEST IN KIDS$64,106
TROUT UNLIMITED$64,000
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 (FY18–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $5k → 17%BRIDGE HOUSE: $100k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $168k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $149k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $168k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $145k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $125k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $100k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $50k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $25k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $5k → 12%LUBIRD'S LIGHT FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%EARTH FORCE: $23k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $50k → 12%REAL LIFE COLORADO: $40k → 8%REAL LIFE COLORADO: $35k → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $150k → 12%HOPE IN OUR CITY: $30k → 12%HOPE IN OUR CITY: $30k → 12%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $25k → 12%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $100k → 8%HOPE IN OUR CITY: $15k → 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

MT
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 48% of The Telluray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Telluray Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 54 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
56

Total granted

$15M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+50%

Still filing today

74%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $913k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +37%
  • DB
    DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
  • LP
    LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +166% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • HL
    HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $638k · revenue +142% · 31% of their budget
  • BG
    Big Green
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -29%
  • HG
    HUDSON GARDENS (KING C HUDSON AND EVELYN LEIGH HUDSON FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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.

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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 Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
3
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
5
Colorado Thrives

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

Community Improvement
6
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
7
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
8
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
11
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
12
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ouray Mountain Rescue Team Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

94 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. 94 of the 128 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
68/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $16,937,390 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,138,248 · PhilanthropyLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION+6 more: $304,315 · PhilanthropyTEACH FOR AMERICA - DENVER: $850,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA - DENVE…HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $637,500 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVAN…CITY OF LITTLETON: $416,290 · OtherARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $319,352 · OtherMILE HIGH FLOOD DISTRICT: $300,000 · OtherSOUTH SUBURBAN PARKS AND RECREATION: $287,600 · OtherLITTLETON TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER: $525,000 · OtherLITTLETON TOWN HALL ARTS …Big Green: $300,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $519,780 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERAT…REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $309,790 · Other+67 more: $3,943,471 · Other+67 moreChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $3,150,000 · HealthChildren's Ho…MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $556,250 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLI…NOURISH COLORADO: $400,000 · HealthNOURISH COLOR…Craig Hospital Foundation: $259,031 · HealthCraig Hospita…+2 more: $30,000 · HealthDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $1,150,000 · EnvironmentDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $250,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $250,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WATER TRUST: $191,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $150,000 · Environment+2 more: $72,000 · EnvironmentTHERE WITH CARE: $599,310 · Human ServicesMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $336,000 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $175,000 · Human ServicesBridge House: $100,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $100,000 · Human ServicesREAL LIFE COLORADO: $75,000 · Human ServicesHOPE IN OUR CITY: $75,000 · Human Services+6 more: $139,115 · Human ServicesCOLORADO ACADEMY: $507,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $425,000 · EducationTACT KIDS INC: $200,000 · EducationKIPP Colorado Schools: $100,000 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationNew Legacy Charter School: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $68,000 · EducationNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $756,800 · Recreation & SportsOURAY ICE PARK INC: $110,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF OURAY VIA FERRATA: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $65,854 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $65,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$18,379,953Other$8,408,783Health$4,395,281Environment$2,063,000Human Services$1,599,425Education$1,425,000Recreation & Sports$1,277,654

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $16,937,390 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $3,150,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $1,150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,138,248 over 6y, 58% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $756,800 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $637,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $599,310 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $556,250 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLITTLETON TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER: $525,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $519,780 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $507,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $425,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO: $400,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $336,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $319,352 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $309,790 over 4y, 16% of budgetCASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC: $264,182 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $259,031 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $250,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTACT KIDS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE: $195,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST: $191,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $175,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $146,480 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $145,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS: $115,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOURAY ICE PARK INC: $110,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS: $105,138 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLITTLETON BUSINESS CHAMBER INC: $105,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBridge House: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMind Shift: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF OURAY VIA FERRATA: $100,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetKIPP Colorado Schools: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLIFESPAN LOCAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLOCKWOOD FOUNDATION: $91,250 over 4y, 45% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREAL LIFE COLORADO: $75,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHOPE IN OUR CITY: $75,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetNFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $65,854 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTable Urban Farm: $65,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $64,106 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $64,000 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.

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 Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Gates Family Foundati…Daniels FundSchlessman Foundation…Anschutz Family Found…The Anschutz Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationGary PhilanthropyMile High United Way …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO78.6× affinity54 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 · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Mile High United Way Inc

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 Telluray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Telluray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
43report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Telluray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Telluray 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 128 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home