· Private foundation
Johnson Foundation of the Rockies
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAZOM INC | $95,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC | $65,000 |
| TIP OF THE SPEAR LANDMINE REMOVAL INC | $65,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $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 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC | $30,000 |
| SAGE SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% 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.
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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES7× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +68%
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $309k · revenue +28%
- NFNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2022 · $275k · revenue +460%
Funded once
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $50k
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue -7%
- UHUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
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…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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…
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…
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…
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.
Sos outreach changes young lives, building character and leadership in underserved kids through mentoring outdoors.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
139 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. 139 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
- Who funds Special Kids-Special Families Inc ↗
- Who funds WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH ↗
- Who funds MESA YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds DENVER CITY LAX ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREELEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Daniels Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Adolph Coors Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
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 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.