· Private foundation
Nextfifty Initiative
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $660k
- $50k–250k53 grants · $5.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING | $600,000 |
| ONE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $300,000 |
| BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT | $260,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC | $228,900 |
| ALMOST HOME INC | $200,000 |
| FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $200,000 |
| USAGING | $184,698 |
| BOULDER FOOD RESCUE | $180,000 |
| GAY ELDERS OF METRO DETROIT DBA MIGEN | $150,000 |
| ITNAMERICA | $150,000 |
| HEALTHY AIR AND WATER COLORADO | $150,000 |
| DENVER INDIAN CENTER | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $150,000 |
| LEADINGAGE | $149,900 |
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 (FY19–24, $12.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
183 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 140 since wound down; 59 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M 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
- OAOlder Adults Technology Services2× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +183%
- CLCWI LABS INC3× · 2019–2021 · $563k · revenue +352%
- BRBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $562k · revenue +324%
Funded once
- UAUCCS AGING CENTERone grant, 2019 · $290k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $260k · revenue +37%
- FPFSL PROGRAMSone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -40%
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.
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
To provide nutrition services for the benefit of elderly in southern colorado.
The mission of leadingage colorado is to foster a collaborative network that leads, advocates, and shares knowledge to promote a healthy business environment for members.
Serving the community by utilizing the skills of senior volunteers and placing them in rewarding opportunities.
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…
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…
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.
Provide affordable and attractive independent living housing for seniors in a neighborhood setting that encourages fellowship and cooperative activities
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
The mission of adult care management, inc. (acmi) is to enable the elderly, the chronically ill and persons with disabilities to maintain their lifestyle and dignity through care management. acmi provides functional evaluations of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association and the most unlike its peers is Lets Dance Activities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
397 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. 397 of the 586 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Older Adults Technology Services ↗
- Who funds THE BELL POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization ↗
- Who funds CWI LABS INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ITNAMERICA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CONSUMER HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
- Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Vive ↗
- Who funds Center for African American Health ↗
- Who funds MISSION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
- Who funds DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS ↗
- Who funds THE SENIOR HUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
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: Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Colorado Trust · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Trailhead Institute · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund
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 Nextfifty Initiative 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.
- Cwi Works Inc — 100% of income from government
- Easter Seals of Oregon — 77% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- La Alianza Hispana Inc — 41% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Lori's Hands Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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