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The Ajl Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $416k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FND FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $150,000 |
| AYA FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE DENVER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $85,000 |
| CASA DE AMPARO | $50,000 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CTR | $40,000 |
| HADANOU COLLECTIVE | $23,000 |
| CONEJOS CLEAN WATER | $22,500 |
| SERVICIOS DE LA RAZA | $20,000 |
| ART FROM ASHES | $20,000 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT | $20,000 |
| TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP FOR CHANG | $20,000 |
| COLORADO ASIAN PACIFIC UNITED | $20,000 |
| HANDS TO THE FUTURE | $20,000 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY HOUSING COALITION | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $928k) 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.
59 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 33 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k 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
- CDCasa De Amparo8× · 2017–2024 · $397k · revenue +17%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN6× · 2017–2022 · $376k · revenue +120%- FFFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- RRRIGHTEOUS RAGE INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $150k
- CFCHINOOK FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $113k · revenue +136%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $96k
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
Empowering Latino communities through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado
Create opportunities and programs that promote health equity education and quality of life for the latino community in boulder county in colorado.
Building Bridges equip inclusive leaders with the skills they need to transform divides in their communities. Building Bridges two key program areas are Transform and Shift. Transform brings together diverse young people from Metro Denver…
To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.
To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.
Colorado people's alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans…
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Indian Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conejos County Clean Water 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 19 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 160 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 THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship ↗
- Who funds AYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOMESTEAD ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHINOOK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project VOYCE ↗
- Who funds Street Fraternity Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
- Who funds CONEJOS COUNTY CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds Prairie Family Center ↗
- Who funds CROWLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Moonshot edVentures ↗
- Who funds DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
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: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family 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 The Ajl Charitable 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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