· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Second Chance Through Faith | $224,990 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMISSION POSSIBLE4× · 2017–2021 · $3.3M · revenue +13% · 94% of their budget
- SHSAVIO HOUSE4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
- RWRUTH WASHBURN COOPERATIVE SCHOOL5× · 2017–2022 · $472k · revenue +32% · 29% 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
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.
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.
CHOICE provides counseling and mentoring to youth to provide them with alternatives to drugs and alcohol.
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.
Comprehensive Family Service System.
Youth and Family Connections provides youth and families resources and alternatives that lead to a successful life.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
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…
Panama Youth Services, Inc. provides shelter, counseling, early delinquent intervention, pre-employment skills training, education enhancement, substance abuse and mental health treatments,
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.
Child respite and child abuse prevention.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joint Initiatives for Youth and Families funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joint Initiatives for Youth and Families. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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