Colorado · Private foundation
The Jorgensen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $67k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Jorgensen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $45k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $34k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $43k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $29k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $34k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $33k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $38k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountainfilm | $51,175 | 7 | 0% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Beadforlife | $12,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Food Share Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Street Business School | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association | $7,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Rivers Inc | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jorgensen Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Jorgensen Foundation
- How much does The Jorgensen Foundation give?
- The Jorgensen Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $66,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Jorgensen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (51%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (4%).
- Who are The Jorgensen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mountainfilm ($51k), Greenhouse Scholars ($13k), Beadforlife ($13k).
- Does The Jorgensen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jorgensen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jorgensen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is The Jorgensen Foundation based?
- The Jorgensen Foundation is based in CO.
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