How much does James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust give?

James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust reported 42 grants totaling $360,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Who are James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region ($275k), Committee For Catholic Secondary Education ($147k), Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum ($116k).

Does James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El Pomar Foundation, INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak, The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation.

James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust

James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$360k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$519kInternational$416kEnvironment$390kArts & Culture$337kEducation$224kFood & Nutrition$61kHuman Services$55kHealth$38kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $105k
$10k–50k10 grants · $200k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION	$55,000
USA FOR UNHCR	$40,000
UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL	$30,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$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
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE	$4,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 54 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+7%

Still filing today

74%

11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +35%
CF
Committee For Catholic Secondary Education
6× · 2018–2023 · $147k · revenue +6%
CS
COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM
6× · 2019–2024 · $116k · revenue +80%

Funded once

CS
Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum
one grant, 2018 · $20k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $15k
JG
James Grace Lee Boggs School
one grant, 2018 · $12k

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals

Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment

Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment

Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter

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

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund; 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.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 99 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

39/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$673,620International$434,000Animals$379,100Environment$221,500Arts & Culture$161,000Education$157,200Human Services$88,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

El Pomar FoundationCO19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James J & Helen M McCaffery Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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