· Community foundation
JEWISHColorado
We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 151 grants below total $5,990,395 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,811,089 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,820,694 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $347k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS | $1,016,600 |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado | $514,442 |
| Congregation Emanuel | $283,023 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $270,000 |
| Denver Art Museum Inc | $252,050 |
| Jewish Federations of North America Inc | $231,914 |
| DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $179,146 |
| LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST MARTYRS MEMORIAL | $160,000 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $126,850 |
| Jewish Community Centers of Denver | $111,800 |
| CONGREGATION BONAI SHALOM | $100,872 |
| Hispanic Jewish Endowment Inc | $100,000 |
| National Jewish Health | $97,300 |
| Hillel of Colorado | $84,310 |
| BOULDER JCC | $79,528 |
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, $9.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $5.0M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: General Operating
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
170 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 36 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $546k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +107%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA9× · 2017–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +548%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGINGone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -28%
- JFJewish Family Serviceone grant, 2021 · $256k · revenue +19%
- DHDENVER HEBREW EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCEone grant, 2017 · $208k
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World and the most unlike its peers is Wexner 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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
260 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. 260 of the 360 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEXNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
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: Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mb Glassman Foundation · Shana Glassman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Chotin Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Shlieberan Family Foundation · Bender West Foundation · Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation II · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
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 JEWISHColorado 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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.