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RJ Clark Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver | $22,500 |
| Parker Task Force | $16,500 |
| Partners Mentoring Youth | $15,000 |
| The Childrens Hospital Foundation | $12,500 |
| Project Sol Flower | $10,000 |
| Judis House | $10,000 |
| Infinite Hero Foundation | $10,000 |
| Harmony Acres Equestrian Center | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Book Trust | $10,000 |
| Delta Montrose Youth Services | $5,000 |
| Food for Thought Denver | $5,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $1,500 |
| Affinity Ranch Promise Ranch | $1,500 |
| Buddy Up For Life | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- JHJUDI'S HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +42%
- LCLARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- WSWestern Slope Center For Childrenone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
- TCThrive Centerone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -69%
- SSSAMMIES SUNSHINEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -35%
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.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Friends of the Children - Colorado has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Tennyson center for children (tcc) is dedicated to helping children who have experienced severe abuse, neglect, and/or trauma so they can bravely, and safely, change their life's story. tcc's trained professionals empower children and…
To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.
Making colorado a better place for children and youth with special healthcare needs.
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
To significantly improve the wellbeing of individuals through a connection with horses.
Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Drifters Hearts of Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 65 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 JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds Yampa Valley Autism Program ↗
- Who funds HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOL FLOWER ↗
- Who funds INFINITE HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Western Slope Center For Children ↗
- Who funds Thrive Center ↗
- Who funds SAMMIES SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Praying Hands Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUDDY UP FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Drifters Hearts of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Xcel Energy Foundation · Realities for Children Charities
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 RJ Clark Family Foundation 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.
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