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Give Well Foundation Inc

$33k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
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

  • 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
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 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.…

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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…

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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…

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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; 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 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. 16 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Give Well Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Give Well Foundation Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% 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, 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 33 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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