· Public charity
Joint Initiatives for Youth and Families
Joint initiatives serves as a catalyst for effecting change by working collectively with community partners to foster innovation and engage leaders to promote positive outcomes for children, youth and families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $224,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,698,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,473,110 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Second Chance Through Faith | $224,990 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MPMISSION POSSIBLE4× · 2017–2021 · $3.3M · revenue +13% · 94% of their budget
- SHSAVIO HOUSE4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +6%
- SCSECOND CHANCE THROUGH FAITH5× · 2017–2023 · $497k · revenue +31% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- COCity of Woodland Parkone grant, 2017 · $16k
- FEForge Evolutiongraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +120%
- TCTeller County Dept of Social Servicesone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 empower and support children and families in reaching their full potential and becoming self-sufficient, saving lives and creating futures through educational enrichment and shelter services.
The agency provides counseling and support services for individuals in need of treatment of substance abuse. The Educational Department of the agency services at risk and disadvantaged children.
Panama Youth Services, Inc. provides shelter, counseling, early delinquent intervention, pre-employment skills training, education enhancement, substance abuse and mental health treatments,
CHOICE provides counseling and mentoring to youth to provide them with alternatives to drugs and alcohol.
Community partnership for youth (cpy) is a prevention program providing positive alternatives to gangs, drugs and violence while reinforcing individual strengths. our vision is to provide our youth with a safe, structured environment that…
Child respite and child abuse prevention.
Enhance and enrich the lives of youth by providing activities that promote learning with an emphasis on resiliency integrity and life skills. Promote problem solving and add experiences to nurture their growth and development.
Comprehensive Family Service System.
Provides Childcare for Young Children, Infant to Preschool
Provides homes for juvenile offenders until they are paroled to their homes or transferred to a state school; place foster children in homes.
The organization is dedicated to providing a full range of services to help eliminate child abuse and neglect. the organization strives to build healthy families through prevention, intervention, treatment and education about alternatives…
Our vision is for a community that embraces its most vulnerable members ensuring that each child in foster care has an opportunity for a healthy successful life by providing: a support system for foster and adoptive families as they…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Possible and the most unlike its peers is Passageway Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 MISSION POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds SAVIO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE THROUGH FAITH ↗
- Who funds RUTH WASHBURN COOPERATIVE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Passageway Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds HINDS FEET ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds Forge Evolution ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization Joint Initiatives for Youth and Families 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.