· Private foundation
The Jorgensen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| MOUNTAINFILM | $10,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOODSHARE | $2,500 |
| FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FOUNDATIO | $2,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE | $2,000 |
| LOVE 4 LAWRENCE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TELLURIDE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,000 |
| GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIG BEND STUDIES | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCYLYKES FAMILY | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MMOUNTAINFILM7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +9%
- GSGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +213%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- LPLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- L4LOVE 4 LAWRENCE FOUNDATION - COMMUNone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Beadforlife. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 72 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BEADFORLIFE ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Thunderheart Media Inc ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Birds of Prey Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Daily Service Foundation Inc · The Dalton Family Foundation · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Jorgensen 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 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.