· Private foundation
William H and Velma C Gerber Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDALIA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $7,409 |
| IDALIA FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| HOMESTEAD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IDALIA VISIONS FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| WRAY COMMUNITY DISTRICT HOSPITAL | $3,091 |
| IDALIA SCHOOL DISTRICT RJ-3 | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- ISIdalia School District RJ37× · 2017–2025 · $68k
- HMHOMESTEAD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $47k
- IAIDALIA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $46k
Funded once
- WCWray Community Hospital Assnone grant, 2021 · $19k
- GPGREAT PLAINS OF CHEYENNE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +103%
- PFPrairie Family Centerone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -6%
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.
To support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.
The foundation's mission is to support red rocks community college in its commitment to students, learning and excellence. red rocks community college is committed to providing financial resources to students of all income levels to allow…
The arapahoe community college foundation's mission is to support and promote the goals of arapahoe community college and its students by creating public awarness and funding resources that provide financial assistance and broad-based…
The university of colorado foundation is the portal for philanthropic giving to the university of colorado and is responsible for receiving, managing, and investing the endowments and other gift funds the foundation holds for the benefit…
Colorado state university foundation receives, manages and invests gifts in support of csu.
The mission of the foundation is to aid, directly or indirectly, western colorado university in fulfilling its educational purposes
The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.
To actively and visibly support the mission of the big bend community college.
To develop, improve, advance and support endeavors of cloud county community college.
The University is a board-governed public post-secondary institution operating in Alberta as a Comprehensive Academic and Research University (CARU) under the authority of the Post-secondary Learning Act (PSLA). CARU institutions have an…
The foundation's purpose is to develop a sustainable source of revenue to support community college of denver, its students, faculty, staff and programs.
Serving god by providing christ-centered higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Northern Colorado Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wray Area Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 45 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.
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.
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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 William H and Velma C Gerber Trust 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.
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