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Give Well Foundation Inc

$33k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Education$55kHealth$6kPhilanthropy$5kInternational$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$2kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k8 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$829
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$25,900
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA$2,500
PINK LOTUS POWER UP$1,025
SAVE THE CHILDREN$1,022
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO$509
MAKE A WISH$263
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$256
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 8%LUBIRD'S LIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
IN
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$56k · 5 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
20

Total granted

$56k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+29%

Still filing today

40%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • DU
    DENVER URBAN SCHOLARS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +10%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado
    4× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue +64%
  • DF
    DENVER FOOD RESCUE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +741%

Funded once

  • LG
    LOVE GRACE FOR HAITI
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • CS
    Colorado Succeedsgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +77%
  • FO
    FALLEN OFFICER FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Health Institute
Health
2
Colorado Children's Campaign

The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…

3
Invest in Kids

Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.

Youth Development
4
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

5
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…

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
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment
8
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
9
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
10
Colorado Early Colleges

Every student regardless of background or skill level will achieve mastery and will demonstrate that they can succeed in high school in college and in their chosen career. no exceptons no excuses.

Education
11
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
12
Colorado Academy

Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lubirds Light Foundation. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $38,180 · OtherREGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLDENVER URBAN SCHOLARS — $9,000 · OtherDENVER URBAN SCHOLARSLOVE GRACE FOR HAITI — $3,500 · OtherLOVE GRACE FOR HAITIFALLEN OFFICER FUND — $3,000 · OtherCOTTONWOOD FOUNDATION — $2,358 · Other+16 more — $7,980 · Other+16 moreColorado Succeeds — $3,000 · EducationDENVER KIDS INC — $2,550 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC — $350 · EducationChildren's Hospital Colorado — $4,929 · HealthSwim Across America Inc — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $300 · PhilanthropyFULLY LIBERATED YOUTH — $1,575 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO YOUNG LEADERS — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,022 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · InternationalCOTTONWOOD INSTITUTE — $1,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $500 · Environment
Other$64,018Education$5,900Health$4,929Philanthropy$2,800Youth Development$2,575International$2,022Environment$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDENVER URBAN SCHOLARS — $9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado — $4,929 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Succeeds — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC — $2,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE — $1,043 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,022 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO YOUNG LEADERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLubirds Light Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Give Well Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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