· Private foundation
Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CO Farm Food Alliance | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| N Fork Creative Coalition | $20,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $20,000 |
| MAD AG FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Mirasol Agrivoltaic Foundation | $15,000 |
| Domino's Service Dogs | $10,000 |
| Village Health Partnership | $10,000 |
| ONE COLORADO ED FUND | $10,000 |
| Mtn Roots Food Project | $10,000 |
| AMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| Rocky Mtn Ski Instruct Ed Fund | $10,000 |
| URBAN PEAK | $10,000 |
| CO Cross Disability Coalition | $10,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k 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
- HCHIGH COUNTRY NEWS4× · 2022–2025 · $68k · revenue +32%
- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +41%
- VHVILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP4× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- HFHCN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $31k
- HCHIGH COUNTRY NEWS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $31k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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…
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…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Promote common business interests of its members, including improving the business climate and the economy of the state of colorado.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Stages of Freedom. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 130 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 HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Stages of Freedom ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Colorado Healing Fund ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO ↗
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 · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Kampe Family Foundation · Redline · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation
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 Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family 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.
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 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.