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The Goodwin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$443kHealth$304kCivil Rights$200kPhilanthropy$149kRecreation & Sports$148kHuman Services$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEnvironment$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Western Slope Center Children$10,000
Clifton Christian Church$10,000
HomewardBound$10,000
HomewardBound$8,820
RiversEdge West$6,000
Colorado Mesa University Foundation$5,000
Mesa Youth Services DBA Partners$2,500
Art Center Western Coloado$2,500
Christ Center DBA Four Winds$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wright Stuff Community Foundation: $5k → 7%Montrose Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 12%Center for Enriched Communications: $5k → 11%Center for Enriched Communication: $5k → 11%Mesa Developmental Services: $13k → 11%Mesa Developmental Services: $13k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $13k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $13k → 11%Mesa Developmental Services: $13k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $13k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $13k → 11%Mesa Developmental Services: $13k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $13k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $5k → 11%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 33 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
40

Total granted

$1.6M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CM
    COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +73%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +21%
  • MC
    MESA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Grand Junction
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CH
    Camp Hope Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -36%
  • MC
    Mesa County Public Health
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
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
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
2
San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment
3
Community Foundation Serving 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.

Philanthropy
4
Grand Junction Economic Partnership

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.

Community Improvement
5
Colorado East Community Action Agency

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.

Human Services
6
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
7
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

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,…

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8
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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9
Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights
10
Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition

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.

Environment
11
Nami 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…

Health
12
Colorado Youth Outdoors Charitable Trust

Building Relationships through Traditional Outdoor Recreation

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 76 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Confluence Center: $200,000 · OtherConfluence CenterMcConnell Math and Science Ctr: $100,000 · OtherMcConnell Math and Science CtrGRAND MESA NORDIC COUNCIL INC: $93,004 · OtherGRAND MESA NORDIC COUNCIL INCColo West Regional Mental Health: $75,000 · OtherColo West Regional Mental Health+54 more: $555,968 · Other+54 moreCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $133,333 · EducationCOLORADO MESA UNIVER…MESA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationMESA COUNTY PUBLIC L…RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $85,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE EDUCATIONA…+2 more: $4,000 · EducationGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesGRAND VAL…MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesMESA DEVE…COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $12,257 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…CENTER FOR ENRICHED COMMUNICATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FO…WRIGHT STUFF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMontrose Lighthouse Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC: $114,000 · PhilanthropyWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHopeWest: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMARILLAC CLINIC INC: $65,000 · HealthMIND SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentRIVERSEDGE WEST: $13,500 · Environment
Other$1,023,972Education$327,333Human Services$149,757Philanthropy$119,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Health$70,000Environment$63,500

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 budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $133,333 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC: $114,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMESA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetHopeWest: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND MESA NORDIC COUNCIL INC: $93,004 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetRIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $85,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $67,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMARILLAC CLINIC INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO CANYONS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWestern Slope Center For Children: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $17,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCOLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRIVERSEDGE WEST: $13,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH AND NATURE: $12,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $12,257 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ENRICHED COMMUNICATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AVALON THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetBLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOORS 2 SUCCESS: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetALL POINTS TRANSIT INC: $8,148 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHaven House of Montrose Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALL AMERICAN FAMILIES: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIND SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGRAND JUNCTION ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDELTA EGYPTIAN THEATER: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMontrose Lighthouse Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetPROJECT 1 27: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Art Center of Western Colorado Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CATCHER THERAPY CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • 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 Camp Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY ↗
  • 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 THE AVALON THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY ↗

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.

Western Colorado Comm…Bacon Family Foundati…Rocky Mountain Health…Colorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationMile High United Way …United Way of Mesa Co…International Associa…Anschutz Family Found…Gates Family Foundati…St Mary's Hospital & …The Colorado Health F…
Western Colorado Community Foundation IncCO81× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Goodwin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodwin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 The Goodwin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Goodwin 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 76 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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