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Jk Mullen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$692kHuman Services$412kHealth$227kAnimals$48kHousing & Shelter$43kFood & Nutrition$42kCrime & Legal$30kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $189k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULLEN HIGH SCHOOL$42,000
REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$26,000
ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE$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
COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$8,500
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL$8,500
UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION$8,000
CHANDA CENTER FOR HEALTH$8,000
ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC SCHOOL$8,000
URBAN PEAK CENTER & OVERNIGHT SHELTER$7,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TRI-LAKES CARES: $2k → 9%PROJECT I SEE YOU: $3k → 3%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $7k → 7%ROOTED 303: $3k → 8%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $6k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $2k → 7%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $3k → 10%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $1k → 7%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 10%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $1k → 7%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 10%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 10%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 10%PROJECT I SEE YOU: $3k → 12%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%FOCUS POINT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 12%FOCUS POINT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%FOCUS POINT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%FOCUS POINT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIACESE OF DENVER: $3k → 12%FOCUS POINT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 12%FOCUS POINT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $200 → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $2k → 12%ADOPTIVE OPTIONS: $2k → 12%ADOPTIVE OPTIONS: $2k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $2k → 12%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $11k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $7k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $6k → 12%SAFE HOUSE DENVER: $5k → 12%SAFEHOUSE OF DENVER: $3k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 54 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
31

Total granted

$1.5M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+36%

Still filing today

59%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • DA
    DENVER ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +3%
  • CT
    COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOUNT SAINT VINCENT
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • R3
    ROOTED 303graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +48%
  • DC
    DREAM CATCHER THERAPY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +36%
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
Aia Colorado

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…

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2
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
3
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
4
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
5
The Arc of Colorado

The arc of colorado provides individual and systems change advocacy for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) residing in colorado and their families.

Human Services
6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
7
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

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.

Human Services
10
Nami Colorado

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…

Health
11
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
12
Urban Outreach Denver

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
43/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MULLEN HIGH SCHOOL: $183,250 · OtherMULLEN HIGH SCHOOLREGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherREGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLESCUELA DE GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $58,500 · OtherESCUELA DE GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $56,500 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $46,000 · OtherCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER: $34,500 · OtherURBAN PEAK CENTER & OVERNIGHT SHELTER: $29,000 · OtherTHE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Other+45 more: $177,700 · Other+45 moreLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $280,500 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR …DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $36,200 · HealthDENVER CHILDREN'S HOMEAdaptive Adventures: $34,500 · HealthAdaptive AdventuresDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $14,500 · Health+5 more: $24,250 · Health+5 moreDENVER ACADEMY INC: $129,500 · EducationDENVER ACADEMY INCHAVERN CENTER INC: $107,500 · EducationHAVERN CENTER INCUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $51,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO…+6 more: $25,150 · Education+6 moreFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $39,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POI…SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE…SparkHope Automotive: $16,500 · Human ServicesSparkHope…CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PA…ADOPTION OPTIONS: $6,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT I SEE YOU: $6,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5,200 · Human Services+5 more: $12,500 · Human Services+5 moreWEDONTWASTE INC: $24,250 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,500 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $1,000 · Food & NutritionDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $24,500 · AnimalsThe Street Dog Coalition: $3,000 · AnimalsCHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA: $24,250 · Civil Rights
Other$687,450Health$389,950Education$313,150Human Services$127,200Food & Nutrition$27,750Animals$27,500Civil Rights$24,250

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 budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $280,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDENVER ACADEMY INC: $129,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC: $107,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $46,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $39,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $36,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAdaptive Adventures: $34,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER: $34,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $24,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA: $24,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $24,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $16,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budget350 COLORADO: $14,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $13,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $9,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetStep Denver: $7,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC: $6,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetADOPTION OPTIONS: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT I SEE YOU: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $5,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOTED 303: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDREAM CATCHER THERAPY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Street Dog Coalition: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHBA FOUNDATION DBA HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC DENVER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Families and Children: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARAPAHOE RESCUE PATROL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY PROGRAMS OF COLORADO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaven House of Montrose Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ADOPTION OPTIONS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT I SEE YOU ↗
  • Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗

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…The Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationDaniels FundHill Foundation Wells…Mile High United Way …The Anschutz Foundati…Schlessman Foundation…Xcel Energy Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO71.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jk Mullen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jk Mullen Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jk Mullen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jk Mullen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 90 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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