· Private foundation
William H and Velma C Gerber Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDALIA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $7,409 |
| HOMESTEAD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IDALIA FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| IDALIA VISIONS FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| WRAY COMMUNITY DISTRICT HOSPITAL | $3,091 |
| IDALIA SCHOOL DISTRICT RJ-3 | $2,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Kitzmiller-Bales Trust · Kenneth and Ethel Powell Trust · El Pomar Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William H and Velma C Gerber Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William H and Velma C Gerber Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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