How much did Johnson Foundation of the Rockies grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Johnson Foundation of the Rockies’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

scholardenver'svulnerablevalleyoutreachwaymentoring

2019

learningartslopeoutreachbuildingmentoringteam dartmouth

2020

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2021

educationalmethtrustees dartmouthjuniorboulder nordickidsdavid eccles

2022

hardship ukranianukranian citizenssystemanimalsaid ukraineaspenmusic

2023

urgent affectedaffected emergencyemergency ukrainevandalsjohnson-hillyard scholarshipaid ukraineaspen

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k44 grants · $182k
$10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
$50k–250k6 grants · $400k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$45M

Total assets

Largest grants

RAZOM INC$95,000
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$75,000
TIP OF THE SPEAR LANDMINE REMOVAL INC$65,000
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC$65,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$50,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$40,000
SPECIAL KIDS - SPECIAL FAMILIES INC$40,000
WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN$40,000
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO INC$40,000
SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUEBLO COUNTY$35,000
KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY$35,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH INC$30,000
JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC$30,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Johnson Foundation of the Rockies’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Johnson Foundation of the Rockieslessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 105 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

105 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105

Total granted

$12M

$764k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+63%

Still filing today

80%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

CF
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION
4× · 2018–2023 · $417k · revenue +58%
FB
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
7× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +45%
CS
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2024 · $309k · revenue +3%

Funded once

CS
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2018 · $50k
TR
TEAM RUBICON
one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue +18%
IH
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Usa Triathlon of Colorado

The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.

Recreation & Sports

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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Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Girls On the Run of the Rockies

Girls on the run inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. we envision a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free…

Youth Development

Colorado Legal Services

Provides access to quality civil legal services to as many people in colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health

Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health

Feeding Colorado

Collaboration and advocacy for the five feeding america food banks in co and wy.

Food & Nutrition

Bicycle Colorado

We lead a passionate and growing movement that champions the interests of everyone who rides or wants to ride a bicycle in our state.

Education

Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture

Rocky Mountain Values

Rocky Mountain Values is a Colorado non-profit organization that is made up of real Coloradans fighting to make sure that we can all earn a good living and have a good life no matter our zip code.

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Philanthropy Colorado

To strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together. our activities focus on education and training, learning networks and advocacy with the overall aim of leading and serving the diverse and dynamic…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Early Milestones Colorado and the most unlike its peers is HopeWest. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/131

the rest of the field

11%

3,769/33,286

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.

06the grantee network

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

126/128

Grantees still filing

103/128

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,890,054Human Services$1,232,750Education$1,232,250Recreation & Sports$1,127,250Youth Development$957,000Food & Nutrition$767,500Health$749,000

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO64.1× affinity45 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 · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · Rose Community Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Denver Children's Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt 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 organisation Johnson Foundation of the Rockies 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEART OF IDAHO ANIMAL SANCTUARY NP INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +54% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 465422529 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEART OF IDAHO ANIMAL SANCTUARY NP INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Johnson Foundation of the Rockies through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Johnson Foundation of the Rockies

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Johnson Foundation of the Rockies?

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Johnson Foundation of the Rockies

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Johnson Foundation of the Rockies?

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