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James C Allen Charitable 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NW | $30,000 |
| THE LIVING DESERT | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN PRIDE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| ONE FOR ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| KINGDOM BUILDING MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| IRONMAN FOUNDATION | $5,200 |
| VAIL VALLEY SALVATION ARMY | $5,200 |
| VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM | $5,199 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIO | $5,100 |
| SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| STATEWIDE POVERTY ACTION NETWORK | $2,500 |
| THE RACIAL DISPARITY PROJECT | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- KBKingdom Building Ministries5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $38k · revenue +139%
- MPMOUNTAIN PRIDE2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- VRVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -72%
- BVBRAVO VAILone grant, 2021 · $10k
- VOVILLAGE OF HOPEone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -78%
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.
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
The EpicPromise Foundation supports Vail Resorts employees and their dependents in times of need through emergency financial assistance and educational grants.
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
Outdoor Adventure and Environmental Leadership Programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Pride. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 48 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 SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Building Ministries ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PRIDE ↗
- Who funds THE WORKING WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One For Israel ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Barbara Allen Charitable Foundation · The Ronald Davis Family Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 James C Allen Charitable 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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