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Johnson Foundation of the Rockies at a glance

· 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
109
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.7MYouth Development$2.0MEducation$1.9MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MRecreation & Sports$947kFood & Nutrition$908kEnvironment$590kOther$0
02FY2024 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $182k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$50,000
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO INC$40,000
WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN$40,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$40,000
SPECIAL KIDS - SPECIAL FAMILIES INC$40,000
SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC$35,000
KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUEBLO COUNTY$35,000
JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL WYOMING$30,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $10k → 10%TIP OF THE SPEAR LANDMINE REMOVAL INC: $65k → 9%MESA YOUTH SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PUEBLO INC: $15k → 15%TIP OF THE SPEAR LANDMINE REMOVAL INC: $30k → 9%YOUTHZONE: $25k → 8%MESA YOUTH SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PUEBLO INC: $10k → 15%TIP OF THE SPEAR LANDMINE REMOVAL INC: $20k → 9%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG INC: $10k → 10%MESA YOUTH SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PUEBLO INC: $10k → 15%MESA YOUTH SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PUEBLO INC: $12k → 15%MESA YOUTH SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 7%MESA YOUTH SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 7%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $15k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $15k → 9%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 7%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $15k → 9%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 7%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $15k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $30k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $15k → 9%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $15k → 12%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $20k → 7%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $30k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $25k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $25k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $20k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $25k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $25k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $25k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $25k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $20k → 8%HEART OF BOARDWALK: $20k → 12%HEART OF BOARDWALK: $20k → 12%HEART OF BOARDWALK: $15k → 12%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $20k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $35k → 12%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $15k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $35k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $30k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $25k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $25k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $25k → 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

VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
NY
MA
WY
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
HI
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 25% of Johnson Foundation of the Rockies’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Johnson Foundation of the Rockieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 97 repeat orgs$983k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
66

Total granted

$10M
$711k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

91%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +68%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $309k · revenue +28%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $275k · revenue +850%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue -7%
  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -13%
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 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
2
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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3
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

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,…

Education
8
Philanthropy Colorado

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.

Philanthropy
9
Sos Outreach

Sos outreach changes young lives, building character and leadership in underserved kids through mentoring outdoors.

Recreation & Sports
10
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Children's Campaign

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.…

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12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/139
Grantees still filing
102/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $380,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $245,750 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $400,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $417,352 · OtherCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATIONCASA of the Pikes Peak Region: $225,000 · OtherRAZOM INC: $236,500 · OtherWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $200,000 · Other+117 more: $3,598,750 · Other+117 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,104,852 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMEN…PROJECT ANGEL HEART: $120,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT ANGEL HEAR…Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gir…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON T…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…BLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK CANY…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY: $93,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentREACH OUT …Boys and Girls Club of South Park: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and G…GIRLS ON THE RUN IDAHO INC DBA Girls on the Run Treasure Valley: $89,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON T…Girls on the Run of Southern Idaho Inc: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on t…Girls on the Run Wyoming: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $309,000 · EducationCOLORADO S…TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $254,850 · EducationTRUSTEES O…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $175,000 · EducationAMERICAN I…THE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $165,000 · EducationTHE SAGE S…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $160,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…Children's Literacy Center Inc: $65,000 · Education+11 more: $173,150 · Education+11 moreSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE …MESA YOUTH SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesMESA YOUTH…BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $130,000 · Human ServicesBLAINE COU…THE INN BETWEEN: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BE…TIP OF THE SPEAR LANDMINE REMOVAL INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesTIP OF THE…RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MIS…B COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING: $90,000 · Human ServicesB COS WE C…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PUEBLO INC: $67,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $56,000 · Human ServicesHEART OF BOARDWALK: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Human Services+6 more: $99,750 · Human Services+6 moreNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $275,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL F…VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $265,000 · Recreation & SportsVOLUNTEERS…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND G…DENVER CITY LAX: $139,250 · Recreation & SportsDENVER CIT…MILE HIGH 360: $126,000 · Recreation & SportsMILE HIGH …CHAPS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES: $115,000 · Recreation & SportsCHAPS EQUI…ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsASPEN VALL…Girls on the Run of the Grand Valley: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+6 more: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $210,000 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $185,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $155,000 · HealthCOLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · HealthMONTANA METH PROJECT: $55,000 · HealthHOSPICE OF THE PLAINS INC: $55,000 · HealthHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthNAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $35,000 · Health+3 more: $29,000 · Health
Other$5,703,852Community Improvement$2,224,852Youth Development$1,307,000Education$1,302,000Human Services$1,282,750Recreation & Sports$1,237,250Health$904,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,104,852 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $417,352 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $400,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $309,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $265,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $254,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $245,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRAZOM INC: $236,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCASA of the Pikes Peak Region: $225,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $210,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $200,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY: $185,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $175,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County: $175,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $165,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $155,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $152,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMESA YOUTH SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO: $150,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $150,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH: $150,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $145,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $141,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $140,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX: $139,250 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetEASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL INC: $138,000 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetBLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $135,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $130,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $126,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREELEY INC: $125,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $120,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $120,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHAPS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES: $115,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetTIP OF THE SPEAR LANDMINE REMOVAL INC: $115,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UTAH NORDIC ALLIANCE: $110,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY: $93,000 over 6y, 0.8% 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 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 AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
  • Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MESA YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗

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…El Pomar FoundationAnschutz Family Found…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Daniels FundXcel Energy FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Rose Community Founda…Hill Foundation Wells…Adolph Coors Foundati…Mile High United Way …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO73× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Johnson Foundation of the Rockies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson Foundation of the Rockies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 201 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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