· Private foundation
Joyforward
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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $186k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL | $136,184 |
| NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,100 |
| FIRE FOUNDATION OF DENVER | $12,500 |
| CSHSRA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST SCHOOL | $6,800 |
| HIGH PLAINS HONOR FLIGHT INC | $2,500 |
| HOPEKIDS | $2,500 |
| CARBON VALLEY HALF MARATHON | $2,000 |
| BIG WAVES | $2,000 |
| UCHEALTH LONGS PEAK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SOPHIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- HFHOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $333k
- CCSHSRA2× · 2023–2024 · $57k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $36k
Funded once
- CVCarbon Valley Academygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +36%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING RODEO TEAMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CACan'd Aidone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -39%
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.
Boulder Swim Teams mission is to create a fun safe supportive and challenging environment and to enable our athletes to excel at swimming and create lifelong bonds. We strive to develop excellent character producing not just strong…
Our mission is to challenge encourage and empower students everyday to persevere on their journey to becoming lifelong learners.
The bloom academy is an inclusive elementary and middle school committed to providing this supportive and enriching learning environment for all students, regardless of their background, abilities, or soci-economic status. our mission is…
GOAL Academy is an alternative education online blended high school serving students across the state of Colorado. GOAL's mission statement is "to develop productive members of society". GOAL's vision statement is "to help all students…
Empower students to design and lead their own postsecondary and career pathways with the context of an exciting Science, Technology, Environmental, Agricultural and System Design thinking learning environment.
The purpose of the Rise School of Denver is to provide the highest quality inclusive early childhood education and therapy for children with and without developmental disabilities. We do this by providing exemplary school- and clinic-based…
Skyline Soccer Association's philosophy is "To Teach, To Inspire, To Excel". The organization implements this philosophy in all aspects of their programs. Through their leagues and camps, they develop a foundation for players to thrive, be…
At cottonwood day school, our mission is to support students with learning challenges and partner with families, so students can reach their full potential academically, socially, and therapeutically in a supportive and inclusive…
Mountain middle school (mms or the school), a colorado non-profit corporation, was created in 2009 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school located in durango, colorado. mms inspires students to own…
The mission of championship academy of distinction is to foster interpersonal relationships with our parents, students, and staff in efforts to build a safe and nurturing family atmosphere that celebrates diverse cultures and character…
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopekids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Can'd Aid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 38 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG WAVES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRE FOUNDATION OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Carbon Valley Academy ↗
- Who funds Can'd Aid ↗
- Who funds High Plains Honor Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE HIGH SCHOOL RODEO AS ↗
- Who funds NIWOT YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO IGNITE SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Happy Day Plants ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds MEAD ELEMENTARY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Joyforward 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.