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Yale Foundation at a glance

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Yale Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$76kReligion$53kHealth$17kEnvironment$14kCrime & Legal$5kInternational$5kCivil Rights$3kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$91k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE EMMANUEL$10,322
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK$5,000
DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION$2,500
AMERICAN TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION$1,000
I M EDUCATION$1,000
GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION$1,000
DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$220
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS$125
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO$100
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$100
NATIONAL YIDDUSH BOOK CENTER$100
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%THE DENVER HOSPICE: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $220 → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 6 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$121k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • DP
    DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue -24%
  • TE
    TEMPLE EMMANUEL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $34k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2025 · $10k

Funded once

  • WW
    WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • RE
    ROBERT E LOUP JEWISH COMM CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

1
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
2
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
3
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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4
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
5
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Hillel of Colorado seeks to engage, empower, and work with Jewish college students to create Jewish communities at University of Denver, Colorado State University, Auraria Campus, Colorado School of Mines and other front range…

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6
Jewish Community Centers of Denver

Provide recreational, cultural, education, and social programs to the community.

Human Services
7
Denver Bar Association

To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…

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8
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
9
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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10
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
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
12
Destination Colorado Meetings

a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $65,050 · EducationDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER+1 more: $500 · EducationTEMPLE EMMANUEL: $34,285 · OtherTEMPLE EMMANUELIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientROBERT E LOUP JEWISH COMM CENTER: $5,000 · OtherROBERT E LOUP JEWISH COMM CENTERSERENGETI WATCH: $4,000 · OtherSERENGETI WATCHROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $2,500 · Other+9 more: $4,575 · Other+9 moreJEWISHColorado: $13,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISHCol…Rose Community Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyRose Comm…WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWINTER WI…HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE O…+1 more: $220 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Colorado: $5,200 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $4,900 · HealthTransplant Foundation Inc: $1,100 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $5,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS: $4,000 · Environment
Education$75,550Other$60,360Philanthropy$15,500Human Services$15,220Health$11,300Civil Rights$8,000Environment$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $65,050 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $4,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransplant Foundation Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Colorado Gives Founda…The Chotin Family Fou…Cars for Charity IncThe Colorado TrustThe Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
The Denver FoundationCO17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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