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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of JOHN & FLORENCE FORTUNE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $42,000 |
| REGIS UNIVERSITY | $10,500 |
| DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AR | $5,120 |
| THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PORTER BILLUPS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE | $5,000 |
| BROWN ROBE BENEFIT- CAPUCHIN FRIARS | $5,000 |
| OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE | $5,000 |
| MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOHN TOBEY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $3,250 |
| IGNITION VOLUNTEER CORP | $2,500 |
| JESUITS USA CENTRAL SOUTHERN | $1,000 |
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 (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 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
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 +66% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- DHDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +66%
- NRNATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +154%
- TEThe Eating Disorder Foundation3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- ACANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $40k
- JUJESUITS USA CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PRone grant, 2022 · $25k
- ACANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVERone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center and 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.
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 44 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.
20 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. 20 of the 49 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 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 BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN ADAMS 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 JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
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 · 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
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 John & Florence Fortune 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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