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John & Florence Fortune 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.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$546kReligion$131kPhilanthropy$65kPublic Benefit$62kHuman Services$54kHealth$40kArts & Culture$27kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$42,000
REGIS UNIVERSITY$10,500
DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AR$5,120
BROWN ROBE BENEFIT- CAPUCHIN FRIARS$5,000
MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION$5,000
ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE$5,000
THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION$5,000
PORTER BILLUPS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$5,000
OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE$5,000
JOHN TOBEY DONOR ADVISED FUND$3,250
IGNITION VOLUNTEER CORP$2,500
JESUITS USA CENTRAL SOUTHERN$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 12%WISH OF A LIFETIME: $3k → 12%WISH OF A LIFETIME: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
SD
CO
MO
MD
KS
DC
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$808k · 19 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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24

Total granted

$808k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+36%

Still filing today

32%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • DH
    DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +154%
  • TE
    The Eating Disorder Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • AC
    ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • JU
    JESUITS USA CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PR
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • AC
    ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVER
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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 Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
5
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
6
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation

Support the work of the denver health and hospital authority in its mission to sustain and advance the health and well-being of denver, colorado and the rocky mountain region.

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7
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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8
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
9
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
10
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
11
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
12
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center; the most unlike its peers is National Pku Alliance Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 49 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $236,100 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLMISSIONARY OBLATES OF MARY IMM: $75,000 · OtherMISSIONARY OBLATES OF MARY IMMPORTER BILLUPS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $61,500 · OtherPORTER BILLUPS LEADERSHIP ACADEMYJOHN TOBEY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $56,951 · OtherJOHN TOBEY DONOR ADVISED FUNDSEEDS OF HOPE: $40,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPEANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOLJESUITS USA CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PR: $25,000 · Other+26 more: $191,650 · Other+26 moreREGIS UNIVERSITY: $170,500 · EducationREGIS UNIVERSITYTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · EducationTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATI…+1 more: $2,500 · EducationDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $20,000 · HealthThe Eating Disorder Foundation: $6,250 · HealthTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthHAVEN OF HOPE: $8,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWish of a Lifetime: $5,000 · Human ServicesSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $5,120 · Arts & CultureSt Francis Mission: $2,500 · ReligionSober Apartment Living CO: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$726,201Education$195,500Health$39,250Philanthropy$9,000Human Services$6,500Arts & Culture$5,120Religion$2,500Crime & Legal$1,000

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 budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $170,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA INC: $18,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Eating Disorder Foundation: $6,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $5,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWish of a Lifetime: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER URBAN SCHOLARS: $3,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Francis Mission: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSober Apartment Living CO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $500 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.

  • Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds The Eating Disorder Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Aurora Public Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Wish of a Lifetime ↗
  • Who funds DENVER URBAN SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds St Francis Mission ↗
  • Who funds DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗

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 FoundationMile High United Way …Daniels FundThe Catholic Foundati…Rose Community Founda…The Martin Family Fou…The Colorado Health F…Jk Mullen FoundationThe Janus Henderson F…Weckbaugh FoundationHeider Family Foundat…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO34.5× affinity16 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 · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Rose Community Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Jk Mullen Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Weckbaugh Foundation · Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman

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 John & Florence Fortune Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Florence Fortune Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 John & Florence Fortune Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John & Florence Fortune 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 49 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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