· Private foundation
The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado’s FY2021 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado named its own grantees at scale: 44 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k33 grants · $850k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado | $727,359 |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $371,390 |
| Family Resource Center Association Inc | $275,000 |
| Jewish Community Center of Denver | $194,066 |
| Colorado Coalition for the Homeless | $130,000 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $125,000 |
| JEWISHcolorado | $120,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Denver | $112,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains | $100,000 |
| Latino Community Foundation of Colorado | $80,000 |
| The Bell Policy Center | $70,000 |
| The Family Learning Center | $50,000 |
| Brothers Redevelopment Inc | $50,000 |
| National Jewish Health | $50,000 |
| Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 84% of The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC4× · 2017–2020 · $2.8M · revenue +107%
- CHCraig Hospital Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +111%
- TBTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER4× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +111%
Funded once
- SPSHALOM PARKone grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue -16%
- TSTHIRD SECTOR CAPITAL PARTNERS INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -1%
- DMDENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -15%
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
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…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
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.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
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,…
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
The vision of denver's early childhood council (the "council") is that denver is a community where the diverse needs of all children and their families are supported. the council elevates the early childhood field through innovative and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Children's Campaign and the most unlike its peers is Mpowered. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 71 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE BELL POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds METROVOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds LARADON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOOLS OF THE MIND ↗
- Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARENT POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE ↗
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: Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na
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 Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado 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.
- Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
- Tools of the Mind — 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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