· Private foundation
The James Patrick Griffith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $3,500 |
| WISH FOR WHEELS | $3,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT | $3,000 |
| CAMP COURAGE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| FIRST DESCENTS | $3,000 |
| MILE HIGH EARLY LEARNING | $2,500 |
| WORLD AT HAND | $2,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $300 |
| COLORADO UPLIFT | $250 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $100 |
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 (FY18–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +35%
- FDFIRST DESCENTS8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +127%
- DGDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +68%
- NSNOAH SAMUEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BTBLESSED TO BE A BLESSING INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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The purpose of the Rise School of Denver is to provide the highest quality inclusive early childhood education and therapy for children with and without developmental disabilities. We do this by providing exemplary school- and clinic-based…
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Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Wish for Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING CENT ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AT HAND ↗
- Who funds Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL TRANSFORMATION SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James Patrick Griffith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James Patrick Griffith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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