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Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$329kHousing & Shelter$91kHealth$63kYouth Development$62kCrime & Legal$58kEducation$41kArts & Culture$38kReligion$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PLACE$8,000
FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION$7,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF$7,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES ROCKY MOUNTAINS$6,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR PIKES PEA$6,000
INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK$5,000
CASA OF THE PIKES PEAK$5,000
PARTNERS IN HOUSING INC$5,000
SPECIAL KIDS - SPECIAL$5,000
AUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORADO$5,000
DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS$5,000
CHEYENNE VILLAGE$4,500
WESTSIDE CARES$4,500
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILD$4,000
KIDPOWER OF COLORADO$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ABLELIGHT INC: $3k → 8%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 9%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $2k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%ABLELIGHT INC: $1k → 8%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 9%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%THE PLACE: $9k → 9%THE PLACE: $8k → 9%THE PLACE: $8k → 9%THE PLACE: $7k → 9%THE PLACE: $5k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $5k → 9%THE PLACE: $5k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $4k → 9%COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY: $4k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $4k → 9%COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY: $4k → 9%PEAK PARENT CENTER: $2k → 9%DIAKONIA: $2k → 9%CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE: $3k → 9%CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE: $2k → 9%SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10k → 9%SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10k → 9%SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $6k → 9%SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 9%COSILOVEYOU: $2k → 9%COSILOVEYOU: $2k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $5k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $5k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $5k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $5k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $5k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $4k → 9%HEARTSPACE KIDS INC: $3k → 9%HEARTSPACE KIDS INC: $3k → 9%TRI LAKES CARES: $3k → 9%TRI LAKES CARES: $2k → 9%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$701k · 44 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
11

Total granted

$701k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

70%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TP
    The Place
    6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +323%
  • PI
    Partners in Housing Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +24%
  • FH
    FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • HC
    HBA CARES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -84%
  • US
    UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +69%
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
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
2
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services
3
The Pinon Project

The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.

Human Services
4
Sunshine Home Share Colorado

Sunshine home share colorado ensures quality of life for older adults and strengthens communities through a safe home-sharing model, supportive economic empowerment, and connections to resources and services.

Housing & Shelter
5
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
7
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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8
La Plata Youth Services

La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.

Crime & Legal
9
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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10
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
11
Adoption Options

Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.

Human Services
12
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Flying Pig Farm. 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

46 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. 46 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
31/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA OF THE PIKES PEAK: $36,500 · OtherCASA OF THE PIKES PEAKRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF: $33,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR PIKES PEA: $28,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR PIKES PEACOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILD: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDSPECIAL KIDS - SPECIAL: $24,000 · OtherSPECIAL KIDS - SPECIALWESTSIDE CARES INC: $23,500 · OtherWESTSIDE CARES INCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $19,500 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADOIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $16,000 · OtherINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK: $12,500 · OtherPIKES PEAK JUSTICE PRO BONO CENTER INC: $11,000 · OtherCare and Share Inc: $11,000 · Other+18 more: $71,500 · Other+18 moreThe Place: $42,000 · Human ServicesThe PlaceFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $34,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATIONSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $30,500 · Human ServicesSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INCTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSIONCheyenne Village: $28,500 · Human ServicesCheyenne VillageB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING: $13,005 · Human ServicesB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA…RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $8,000 · Human Services+11 more: $39,500 · Human Services+11 morePartners in Housing Inc: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $8,500 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,650 · Housing & ShelterForge Evolution: $20,500 · Crime & LegalKidpower of Colorado Inc: $18,500 · Crime & LegalCENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA: $5,000 · Crime & LegalAUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA: $26,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCONCRETE COUCH: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $1,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationPeak Education: $6,000 · EducationFLYING PIG FARM: $2,000 · EducationDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $23,500 · HealthMindfulness and Positivity Project: $1,500 · Health
Other$329,500Human Services$233,505Housing & Shelter$50,150Crime & Legal$44,000Arts & Culture$38,000Education$28,000Health$25,000

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 budgetThe Place: $42,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $30,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCheyenne Village: $28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA: $26,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWESTSIDE CARES INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $23,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetForge Evolution: $20,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKidpower of Colorado Inc: $18,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING: $13,005 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTESSA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS ON BIKES INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTSPACE KIDS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPeak Education: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Catamount Institute: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOS I LOVE YOU: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHBA CARES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetABLELIGHT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAYBREAK - AN ADULT DAY PROGRAM: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEAK PARENT CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStep Springs: $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMindfulness and Positivity Project: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds The Place ↗
  • Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Cheyenne Village ↗
  • Who funds AUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
  • Who funds Forge Evolution ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds Kidpower of Colorado Inc ↗
  • Who funds B COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING ↗
  • Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds GRECCIO HOUSING UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TESSA ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ON BIKES INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds HEARTSPACE KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Peak Education ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA CENTRO DE LA FAMILIA ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
  • Who funds The Catamount Institute ↗

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.

Colorado Springs Heal…Pikes Peak Community …The Joseph Henry Edmo…El Pomar FoundationThe Myron Stratton Ho…Pikes Peak United WayINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Luther T McCauley Cha…The Marson FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Nutrition Camp Sc…The Hester E & Edwin …
Colorado Springs Health FoundationCO65.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Marson Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Nutrition Camp School Foundaton Inc · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation

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 Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable Trust. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 65 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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