How much did JOYFORWARD grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of JOYFORWARD’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

catholic education

2023

youth athleticsfaith-based educationeducation youthspecial youthyouth medical

2024

faith-based educationeducation youthyouth athleticsyouth medicalteam

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

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

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$315

Total assets

Largest grants

HOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL$136,184
NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION$50,000
ROPIN' RASCALS$33,100
FIRE FOUNDATION OF DENVER$12,500
CSHSRA$10,000
RAM SPORTS PROPERTIES$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
RACHEL ZELENY$1,000
UCHEALTH LONGS PEAK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
SOPHIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$482k · 10 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$482k

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+164%

Still filing today

20%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

HF
HOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL
3× · 2022–2024 · $333k
C
CSHSRA
2× · 2023–2024 · $57k
RR
ROPIN' RASCALS
2× · 2023–2024 · $36k

Funded once

CV
CARBON VALLEY ACADEMY
one grant, 2022 · $7k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING RODEO TEAM
one grant, 2023 · $5k
CA
CAN'D AID FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Colorado Diamonds

Youth Sports Activities

Youth Development

Aspen Equestrian Team

The Aspen Equestrian Team participates with a National Organization, Interscholastic Equestrian Association. We provide a venue and horses to local High School and Middle School children to learn horsemanship skills and to show against…

Recreation & Sports

North Jeffco Swim Team

North jeffco swim team serves the community by providing a competitive swim program for children of all abilities and potential. the team strives to promote personal health, character and values in an atmosphere that is fun and rewarding.

Recreation & Sports

North Texas High School Rodeo

North Texas High School Rodeo Association (NTHSRA) governs 28+ championship Association sanctioned rodeos each year.

Recreation & Sports

Montessori Academy of Colorado

Providing full-day, year-round quality child care and education based on a montessori philosophy to children between the ages of 8 weeks old up to grade 8.

Human Services

Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health

Colorado League of Charter Schools

To improve student achievement by supporting colorados charter schools, positively reshaping the public school landscape, and advancing opportunities for innovation and expanded high-quality public school choice.

Education

Denver Junior Golf

To educate and inspire youth academically, socially,and physically through the game of golf.

Youth Development

Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen Inc

Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen inspires each student to pursue personal and academic excellence through an intellectually challenging Core Knowledge curriculum within a nurturing environment.

Education

National High School Rodeo Assoc

Promote the sport of rodeo and the highest type of conduct and sportsmanship, and expose its positive image to the general public; preserve the western heritage; offer a privilege of family bonding; offer an opportunity of continuing…

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Usa Triathlon of Colorado

The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.

Recreation & Sports

Colorado Skies Academy

CSA's mission is to inspire successful careers in the aerospace industry with an academically rigorous project-based curriculum that prepares students for advanced secondary and post-secondary education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Waves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colorado State High School Rodeo As. 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$543,049Health$18,000Recreation & Sports$15,800Education$14,000Human Services$2,500

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.

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.

Daniels FundCO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BIG WAVES FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 611913895 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BIG WAVES FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Joyforward?

Find your warmest path to Joyforward through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOYFORWARD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joyforward?

More from the funding graph

JOYFORWARD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joyforward?

More from the funding graph