· Private foundation
G E Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $825k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vail Health Foundation | $280,000 |
| Western Stock Show Association | $166,666 |
| Junior Achievement - Rocky Mtn Inc | $166,666 |
| Craig Hospital | $150,000 |
| Rocky Mtn Adventist Healthcare Foundation | $120,000 |
| Common Sense Institute | $112,000 |
| Children's Hospital | $60,000 |
| Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,000 |
| Foundation for Colorado Springs Future | $28,000 |
| Gazette Charities Foundation | $25,000 |
| Air Force Academy Foundation | $10,000 |
| Colorado Springs Utilities Project COPE | $10,000 |
| Careers in Construction Colorado | $10,000 |
| UC Health Memorial Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of G E Johnson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $694k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION4× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +84%
- CCColorado Christian University3× · 2020–2022 · $250k · revenue +36%
- CSCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- PPPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $170k · revenue +36%
- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +42%
- TSTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +10%
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.
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…
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
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.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Manitou Springs Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 70 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 CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACE IT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Careers in Construction Colorado ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO DEANGELIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS PATH INC ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Pueblo Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mindfulness and Positivity Project ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP (CHP) ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Peak Education ↗
- Who funds MANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fire Foundation of Colorado Springs ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Ent Credit Union · The Anschutz Foundation · Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home
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 G E Johnson 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.
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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