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The Goodwin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Confluence Center | $100,000 |
| Grand Mesa Nordic Council | $50,000 |
| Mesa County Libraries Foundation | $25,000 |
| Counseling Education Center | $15,000 |
| United Way of Mesa County | $15,000 |
| HomewardBound | $10,000 |
| Western Slope Center Children | $10,000 |
| Clifton Christian Church | $10,000 |
| HomewardBound | $8,820 |
| RiversEdge West | $6,000 |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Art Center Western Coloado | $2,500 |
| Christ Center DBA Four Winds | $2,500 |
| Mesa Youth Services DBA Partners | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- CMCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +73%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +21%
- HHopeWest4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- COCity of Grand Junctionone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CHCamp Hope Incone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -36%
- MCMesa County Public Healthone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
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…
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
The mission of the grand junction economic partnership is to generate high quality economic development by attracting business and quality jobs to mesa county, colorado.
To stabilize families living in poverty in the rural colorado counties of cheyenne, elbert, kit carson and lincoln, and to move them out of poverty through education, programs, and collaborations with other agencies.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
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…
Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.
The mission of the colorado off-highway vehicle coalition (cohvco) is to represent, assist, educate, and empower ohv recreationists in the protection and promotion of off-highway motorized recreation throughout colorado.
Nami colorado offers educational programs designed to educate and support family members, friends and individuals affected by mental illness. we aim to develop skills to help people cope with the challenges of mental illness. we advocate…
Building Relationships through Traditional Outdoor Recreation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riversedge West. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 76 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 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HopeWest ↗
- Who funds GRAND MESA NORDIC COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CANYONS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Western Slope Center For Children ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY ↗
- Who funds Camp Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSEDGE WEST ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH AND NATURE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ENRICHED COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds DOORS 2 SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds BLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVALON THEATRE 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: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Bacon Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · United Way of Mesa County Inc · International Association of Lions 3602 · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Inc · The Colorado Health 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 Goodwin 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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