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Jjj Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jjj Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2018
20
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2018.

Human Services$10kYouth Development$10kHealth$7kCrime & Legal$2kHousing & Shelter$2kCommunity Improvement$2kEducation$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$797k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHER GROUND$3,000
CONNECTIONS 4 KIDS$2,500
HOMEAID COLORADO$2,000
MOTHER HOUSE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
COLORADO FAMILY LIFE CTR$1,500
PIKES PEAK THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$1,500
WARM HEARTS WARM BABIES$1,000
GROWE FOUNDATION$1,000
FLORENCE ARTS COUNCIL$1,000
BOOK TRUST$1,000
HANDS OF THE CARPENTER$1,000
LIFE CONSEQUENCES$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
STRIVE PREPARATION SCHOOLS$500
02The need
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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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WARM HEARTS WARM BABIES: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 7 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +257% since the first grant, against +186% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$17k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+257%
+186%

Still filing today

43%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • MH
    MOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +678%
  • GF
    GROWE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +67%
  • SA
    SparkHope Automotive
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • CC
    COLORADO CANCER COALITION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • BI
    BIG IDEA PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -75%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

1
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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2
Colorado Health Institute
Health
3
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
4
Birthline of Loveland

At Birthline Pregnancy Resource Center, our mission is to empower women and their families to navigate unplanned pregnancies with confidence and hope. We provide a safe and supportive environment where individuals can explore their…

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5
Hope Center Inc

The organization provides childcare, preschool programs, gifted programs, vocational training, and therapy for the developmentally disabled.

Human Services
6
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
7
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
8
The Growing Project

The Growing Project is a food justice nonprofit that works toward a more just and equitable local food system through hands-on educational growing experiences, food distribution, stewarding community growing spaces, and culturally specific…

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9
Girl Scouts of Colorado

Girl scouts of colorado prepares girls and adults to create unique leadership paths, ignite change, and share a worldwide sisterhood through traditions and new experiences. girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character,…

Youth Development
10
Heart and Hand Center

Heart & hand center is dedicated to a world with no opportunity gap. by creating a nurturing community, heart & hand empowers all young people to realize their potential.

Crime & Legal
11
Pta Colorado Congress
Education
12
Colorado Succeeds

A non-partisan coalition of business leaders committed to improving the state's education system.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Community Shelter Providers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mother House Dba Haven Ridge. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHER GROUND: $5,000 · OtherHIGHER GROUNDMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE: $3,000 · OtherMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGECOLORADO CANCER COALITION: $2,500 · OtherCOLORADO CANCER COALITIONLIFE CONSEQUENCES: $2,000 · OtherLIFE CONSEQUENCESCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC: $2,000 · OtherCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INCIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBIG IDEA PROJECT: $1,500 · OtherBIG IDEA PROJECTBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS: $1,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,125 · OtherCONNECTIONS 4 KIDS: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTIONS 4…GROWE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentGROWE FOUNDAT…SparkHope Automotive: $2,000 · Human ServicesSparkHope…WARM HEARTS - WARM BABIES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWARM HEAR…Colorado Family Life Center Inc: $1,500 · HealthProject Helping: $500 · HealthStableStrides: $1,500 · ReligionBOOK TRUST: $1,000 · EducationStrive Preparatory Schools: $500 · EducationFlorence Arts Council: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$22,625Youth Development$4,500Human Services$3,000Health$2,000Religion$1,500Education$1,500Arts & Culture$1,000Food & Nutrition$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS 4 KIDS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGROWE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Family Life Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARM HEARTS - WARM BABIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStrive Preparatory Schools: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Helping: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $425 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO26.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jjj Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jjj Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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