· Private foundation
Jax 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE | $4,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CSU FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ADAM'S CAMP | $2,250 |
| JOY INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| SECOND WIND FUND | $1,250 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,180 |
| PROJECT PAVE | $1,000 |
| HUMANE COLORADO | $1,000 |
| MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS | $1,000 |
| MILE HIGH DACHSHUNDS RESCUE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 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; $10k 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
- SWSECOND WIND FUND INC6× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +150%
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +35%- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +329%
Funded once
- SJST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TSTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -14%
- OLOUTDOOR LAB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +6%
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.
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Patrick Straut Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 72 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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFARING BAND INC ↗
- Who funds JOY International ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NAMI SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR LAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PAVE INC ↗
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 · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Denver Broncos Foundation · Daniels Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Cranaleith 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 Jax 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.