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Yale Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE EMMANUEL | $10,322 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $10,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| I M EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $220 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $125 |
| NATIONAL YIDDUSH BOOK CENTER | $100 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $100 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- DPDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue -24%
- TETEMPLE EMMANUEL5× · 2020–2025 · $34k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2025 · $10k
Funded once
- WWWINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +69%
- HOHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -10%
- REROBERT E LOUP JEWISH COMM CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 29 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.
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Transplant Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization ↗
- Who funds IM EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · Cars for Charity Inc · The Colorado Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Yale Foundation 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% 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.