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The Jensen Family Charitable 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.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.

Education$176kHealth$64kPhilanthropy$62kAnimals$33kHuman Services$9kRecreation & Sports$9kEnvironment$7kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$15,000
ST ANNES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC$7,500
REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$7,500
DENVER ACADEMY INC$7,500
PI KAPPA ALPHA FOUNDATION$6,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO$5,000
THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH$5,000
RENAISSANCE PRESCHOOL INC$2,500
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC$2,500
THE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY$2,500
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$2,500
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC$2,100
MOUNTAIN PHOENIX COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH: $5k → 14%BE THE GOOD ONES: $1k → 8%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
NY
MA
WY
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
DC
HI
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$292k · 32 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
16

Total granted

$292k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-5%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $83k · revenue +3%
  • PK
    Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +945%
  • DD
    DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • WL
    WHEELER LAKE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -27%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - MCCOMBS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc

C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.

Animals
3
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
4
Colorado Veterinary Medical Association

To advance veterinary medicine.

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5
The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc

See schedule o.to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals within the state of colorado by:-assisting agencies in the enforcement of laws relating to cruelty and neglect of companion animals and equines-educating the public on animal welfare…

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6
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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7
Denver Pet Partners

To deliver excellence in animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and enhance the health and wellness of people through AAI services, education & networking.

Health
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
10
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
11
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Mountain Bike Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsLocal History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterSchool District Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%13%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr13%39%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,356

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
25/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $82,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONMOUNTAIN PHOENIX COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $22,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN PHOENIX COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUND…Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation — $14,000 · EducationPi Kappa Alpha FoundationDENVER ACADEMY INC — $11,500 · EducationDENVER ACADEMY INC+3 more — $5,400 · EducationCHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO — $50,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADOREGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $23,500 · OtherREGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc — $7,500 · OtherSt Anne's Episcopal School IncTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — $5,008 · OtherColorado Mountain Bike Association — $5,500 · Other+23 more — $41,150 · Other+23 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHA…+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE KINDN…DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $7,000 · AnimalsDENVER DU…BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT — $5,000 · AnimalsBEAGLE FR…COLORADO HORSE RESCUE — $2,250 · AnimalsCOLORADO …THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $2,250 · AnimalsTHE ELEPH…COLORADO BEAGLE RESCUE — $2,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO …+7 more — $4,550 · Animals+7 moreRobbies Hope Foundation — $4,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $3,600 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC — $1,500 · HealthSpina Bifida Association of Colorado — $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 · Health+2 more — $350 · HealthTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $3,000 · Human ServicesPARKER SECRET CLOSET INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $600 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $4,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGOLDEN BICYCLE EXPERIENCE — $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $250 · Arts & Culture
Education$135,400Other$132,658Philanthropy$62,000Animals$33,050Health$10,950Human Services$9,850Arts & Culture$9,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $82,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN PHOENIX COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetPi Kappa Alpha Foundation — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ACADEMY INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Mountain Bike Association — $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $4,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRobbies Hope Foundation — $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Denver — $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELER LAKE ASSOCIATION — $3,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHVIEW — $2,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RENAISSANCE PRESCHOOL INC RENAISSANCE MONTESSORI ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWashington and Lee University — $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE — $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO BEAGLE RESCUE — $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYC Junior Sailing Club Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY LIFE BEAGLE RESCUE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN BICYCLE EXPERIENCE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL VILLAGE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Essential Tremor Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Denver FoundationThe Janus Henderson F…The Colorado Health F…El Pomar FoundationAmg Charitable Gift F…The Anschutz Foundati…S&P Global Foundation…Denver Broncos Founda…Western Union Foundat…Mile High United Way …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO39.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc

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 Jensen Family Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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