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Pajwell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$360k
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$321kInternational$142kFood & Nutrition$136kCivil Rights$118kHealth$111kHousing & Shelter$62kHuman Services$47kEducation$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 89 grants below total $316,970, the rows itemized in this filing. The $360,470 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k81 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$1,500
Median grant
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States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tara Institute of the Performing Arts Incorporated$60,875
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$26,750
Parlando Inc$26,500
Women For Women International$22,750
The Conscious Alliance$16,750
Anderson Ranch Arts Center$15,000
Anderson Ranch Arts Center$12,350
The Conscious Alliance$10,000
Tara Institute of the Performing Arts Incorporated$8,095
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network$7,500
Equal Opportunity Schools$5,500
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc$5,000
National Alliance on Mental Illness$5,000
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project$4,000
La Clinica Del Pueblo Inc.$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMINAGWTUKWSIUMANI: $1k → 26%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $500 → 10%SISTER SONG INC: $750 → 13%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%NATURE HEALS: $1k → 12%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%SISTER SONG INC: $750 → 13%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%NATURE HEALS: $1k → 12%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%T E S S A: $4k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $250 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $250 → 9%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $2k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $250 → 9%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $1k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $1k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $500 → 14%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $10k → 12%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $500 → 14%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $500 → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $500 → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $500 → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $350 → 17%ATTENTION INC: $6k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $2k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $4k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $3k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $2k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
AZ
NM
KS
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$709k · 87 repeat orgs$433k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 79 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
50

Total granted

$709k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+34%

Still filing today

91%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $88k · revenue +742%
  • TI
    TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
    3× · 2018–2020 · $84k · revenue +55%
  • NN
    NAMI National
    3× · 2018–2020 · $38k · revenue +461%

Funded once

  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -54%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -1%
  • KIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +219%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
5
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
6
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
7
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
8
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is M F Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 218 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/124
Grantees still filing
101/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tara Institute of the Performing Arts Incorporated: $70,970 · OtherTara Institute of the Performing Arts IncorporatedThe Conscious Alliance: $31,750 · OtherThe Conscious AllianceAnderson Ranch Arts Center: $27,350 · OtherPalestine Children's Relief Fund: $26,750 · OtherParlando Inc: $26,500 · OtherWomen For Women International: $22,750 · Other+132 more: $365,950 · Other+132 moreTARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: $83,500 · Arts & CultureTARA INSTITUTE O…ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $17,000 · Arts & CultureANDERSON RANCH A…YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MUSICIANS …ROARING FORK FRIENDS OF THE THEATER INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $37,000 · Arts & Culture+15 moreINTERNATIONAL MIDWIFE ASSISTANCE INC: $70,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL…NAMI National: $37,500 · HealthNAMI NationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $7,000 · HealthTrust Women Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $5,000 · Health+10 more: $14,750 · Health+10 moreTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $88,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CONSCI…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $11,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK …Feeding America: $5,500 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $5,000 · Food & NutritionATTENTION INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $12,500 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesCasa De Paz: $7,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC: $6,850 · Human ServicesPATH: $4,500 · Human ServicesTESSA: $3,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $3,000 · Human Services+8 more: $10,250 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $4,250 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $15,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalKIND INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$572,020Arts & Culture$166,500Health$139,250Food & Nutrition$109,500Human Services$76,600Civil Rights$42,750Crime & Legal$35,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $88,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: $83,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MIDWIFE ASSISTANCE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetNAMI National: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATTENTION INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARBONDALE ARTS: $9,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROARING FORK FRIENDS OF THE THEATER INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCasa De Paz: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAspen Homeless Shelter: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $6,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKID SMART: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHENTITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEdward Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetM F PLACE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL (USA): $5,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFeeding America: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoulder Aikikai Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIVING TO EXTREMES: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL NATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPATH: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE EDUCATION ADVOCATES REACHING TEACHERS: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $4,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Community Foundation …Aspen Community Found…The Colorado Health F…El Pomar FoundationThe Colorado TrustMile High United Way …Arches FoundationGill FoundationWestern Colorado Comm…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO49.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Aspen Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Mile High United Way Inc · Arches Foundation · Gill Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pajwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pajwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pajwell Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pajwell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 218 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $260k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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