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James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust
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 $10k31 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION | $55,000 |
| USA FOR UNHCR | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $30,000 |
| UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL | $30,000 |
| ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $18,000 |
| TRAMPLED ROSE | $17,000 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS | $10,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $10,000 |
| BOGGS EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL DEFENSE FUND | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 9 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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 REGION5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +35%
- CFCommittee For Catholic Secondary Education6× · 2018–2023 · $147k · revenue +6%
- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $116k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- CSColorado Springs Pioneer Museumone grant, 2018 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- JGJames Grace Lee Boggs Schoolone grant, 2018 · $12k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
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.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Pikes Peak Library District Foundation Inc. 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 38 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) — 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.
48 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. 48 of the 99 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds Committee For Catholic Secondary Education ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Trampled Rose Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE ARC PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONUMENT VALLEY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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 · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Buettner Family Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
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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