· Private foundation
The Helen and Jose Colton 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POINT ROBERTS VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY | $46,600 |
| SHADOW HILLS RIDING CLUB | $44,200 |
| HAPPY CATS HAVEN | $30,000 |
| RISE UP SCHOOLS | $27,000 |
| MENDING KIDS | $25,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN MEDICAL OUTREACH PROGRAM INC | $21,500 |
| LUPITA PROJECT | $13,500 |
| BRIDGE TO HOME | $12,500 |
| ACADEMY FOUNDATION (ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES) | $10,000 |
| ROBINS NEST RESCUE | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LA (CATCH) | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,975 |
| CDT KIDS | $7,500 |
| VALOR HEALING FARMS | $6,400 |
| SINGER SANCTUARY | $6,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Helen and Jose Colton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 46%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 17 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSADDLES FOR SOLDIERS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $119k · revenue +350% · 79% of their budget
- MKMending Kids International dba Mending Kids5× · 2021–2025 · $108k · revenue +126%
- SHSAFE HAVEN MEDICAL OUTREACH PROGRAM INC3× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- H4HOMES 4 FAMILIESone grant, 2018 · $50k
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $45k
- PRPOINT ROBERTS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $40k
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.
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.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
My Happy Place Animal Sanctuary is a registered 501(c)3 non profit organization dedicated to providing rescue, rehabilitation and refuge to at-risk animals.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.
Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…
We are a Wyoming based non-profit dedicated to providing support, transitional services, and a loving home for hounds, burros, horses, pigs, sheep, and chickens. While we provide sanctuary for our farm and hound friends, our primary focus…
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SHADOW HILLS RIDING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLES FOR SOLDIERS INC ↗
- Who funds Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSICALS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MEDICAL OUTREACH PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BARN SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Lupita Project ↗
- Who funds VALOR HEALING FARMS ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HAPPY CATS HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE WAYSTATION ↗
- Who funds SINGER SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO HOME SCV ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE ZOO ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · California Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Helen and Jose Colton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen and Jose Colton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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