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Just So Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,296
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$402k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Just So Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$32k11%
FY20249$28k22%
FY202311$28k36%
FY202212$32k67%
FY20214$12k50%
FY20207$16k14%
FY20199$23kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$62kAnimals$26kYouth Development$25kEducation$17kRecreation & Sports$15kCrime & Legal$12kHealth$11kInternational$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
WI
NV
SD
CA
CO
KS
TN
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Just So Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $19,878 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County: $17,077 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $15,468 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Veterans Assistance: $12,048 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMcDougall Research & Education Foundation: $10,727 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc: $8,776 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPiney Woods School: $4,592 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeroes and Horses Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRealities for Children Charities: $3,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Red Rock Canyon: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAnimal Friends Alliance: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Community Foundation of Northern ColoradoCO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Just So Charitable Foundation

How much does Just So Charitable Foundation give?
Just So Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $32,184 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Just So Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Animals (14%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Just So Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Gary Sinise Foundation ($20k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County ($17k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($15k).
Does Just So Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Just So Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Just So Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Just So Charitable Foundation based?
Just So Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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