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The Jorgensen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$295kArts & Culture$63kHealth$24kHuman Services$23kEducation$19kAnimals$16kInternational$16kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
MOUNTAINFILM$10,800
Individual grant recipient$9,000
COMMUNITY FOODSHARE$2,500
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS$2,000
FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FOUNDATIO$2,000
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$2,000
SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE$2,000
LOVE 4 LAWRENCE FOUNDATION$2,000
BRIDGE HOUSE$2,000
GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS$2,000
CENTER FOR BIG BEND STUDIES$1,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$1,000
THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE$1,000
COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIDGE HOUSE: $2k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISSTANCE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISSTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISSTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIA: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIA: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIA: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$254k · 35 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
26

Total granted

$254k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+21%

Still filing today

63%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • M
    MOUNTAINFILM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +9%
  • GS
    GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +213%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • LP
    Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • L4
    LOVE 4 LAWRENCE FOUNDATION - COMMUN
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
4
World Resources Institute

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…

International
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
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
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
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
9
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
28/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $268,084 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+45 more: $112,400 · Other+45 moreMOUNTAINFILM: $51,175 · Arts & CultureMOUNTAINFIL…Thunderheart Media Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureThunderhear…+3 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $13,000 · EducationSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc: $5,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $4,250 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $2,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $1,000 · Environment+3 more: $1,500 · EnvironmentTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsTelluride Mountain Club: $500 · Recreation & SportsEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesBridge House: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE: $2,000 · Human ServicesLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $1,000 · Animals
Other$440,484Arts & Culture$57,175Education$21,750Environment$20,750Recreation & Sports$13,000Human Services$11,500Animals$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $268,084 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM: $51,175 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $13,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $4,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThunderheart Media Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridge House: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBirds of Prey Foundation: $1,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY TO FAMILY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS TO SEW INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Mountain Club: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL 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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • 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 Birds of Prey Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jorgensen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jorgensen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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