· Private foundation
Jk Mullen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MULLEN HIGH SCHOOL | $42,000 |
| REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE | $26,000 |
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,500 |
| HAVERN SCHOOL | $19,500 |
| DENVER ACADEMY | $14,500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN MS CENTER | $10,500 |
| FOCUS POINT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $9,500 |
| ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $8,500 |
| COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $8,500 |
| ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| CHANDA CENTER FOR HEALTH | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| URBAN PEAK CENTER & OVERNIGHT SHELTER | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- DADENVER ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +36%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +3%
- CTCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TSThe Street Dog Coalitionone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -17%
- HFHBA FOUNDATION DBA HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +233%
- DCDREAM CATCHER THERAPY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +36%
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…
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.
The arc of colorado provides individual and systems change advocacy for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) residing in colorado and their families.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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.
Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
Nami colorado offers educational programs designed to educate and support family members, friends and individuals affected by mental illness. we aim to develop skills to help people cope with the challenges of mental illness. we advocate…
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Break Bread. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. 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.
56 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. 56 of the 90 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HAVERN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Adventures ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds SparkHope Automotive ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds 350 COLORADO ↗
- Who funds BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds Rise Against Suicide ↗
- Who funds CHANDA CENTER FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT I SEE YOU ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
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 · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Daniels Fund · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy 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 Jk Mullen 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.
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.
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