· Private foundation
The John E and Margaret L Lane Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $500,000 |
| Colorado Springs Therapeutic Riding Center | $500,000 |
| Young Life | $275,000 |
| Parents Challenge | $235,000 |
| Translational Genomics Research Institute Found | $200,000 |
| Peak Education | $200,000 |
| Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum | $100,000 |
| CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION COLORADO | $100,000 |
| COSILoveYou | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado | $50,000 |
| US Olympic & Paralympic Museum | $50,000 |
| University of Colorado Colorado Springs | $40,000 |
| Read Better Be Better | $25,000 |
| Saint Joseph Catholic Church | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $679k 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
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE6× · 2017–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +39%
- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation5× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +42%
- CSCOLO SPGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER4× · 2019–2024 · $520k · revenue +287% · 61% of their budget
Funded once
- YOYMCA of the Pikes Peak Regionone grant, 2020 · $750k
- UOUS Olympic Museumone grant, 2017 · $500k
- EIExponential Impactgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $491k · revenue +28% · 75% of their budget
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.
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
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…
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
S.e.t. of colorado springs is made up of a small multi-skilled staff and a large corps of volunteers, including many in the medical professions. s.e.t. of colorado springs collaborates with other care-givers in the pikes peak area to teach…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is White Water Institute Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 59 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 THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center ↗
- Who funds COLO SPGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Peak Vista Community Health Ctrs Foundation ↗
- Who funds Exponential Impact ↗
- Who funds Peak Education ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PARENTS CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cheyenne Village ↗
- Who funds Careers in Construction Colorado ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COS I LOVE YOU ↗
- Who funds FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum ↗
- Who funds READ BETTER BE BETTER ↗
- Who funds WHITE WATER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Ent Credit Union · T Rowe Price Foundation · G E Johnson Foundation · Christian Community Foundation 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 John E and Margaret L Lane 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.
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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