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The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$815k
Granted FY2025still arriving
125
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$929kHealth$713kArts & Culture$672kEnvironment$479kHousing & Shelter$336kCrime & Legal$295kFood & Nutrition$295kOther$0
02FY2025 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k91 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $515k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$1,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nature Conservancy of Colorado$100,000
Peak Education$50,000
Peak Education$45,000
Homeward Pikes Peak$30,000
Legacy Institute$25,000
Atlas Preparatory School$25,000
Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region$21,000
Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust$20,000
Early Connections Learning Centers$20,000
Food to Power$20,000
Mission Medical Clinic$20,000
Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care$16,000
Global Livingston Institute$15,710
National Alliance on Mental Illness - Colorado Spr$15,500
Home Front Military Network$15,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Canine Partners of the Rockies Inc: $2k → 10%New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc: $1k → 16%Silver Key Senior Services: $24k → 7%Silver Key Senior Services: $18k → 7%Silver Key Senior Services: $5k → 7%Silver Key Senior Services: $4k → 7%Silver Key Senior Services: $3k → 7%Silver Key Senior Services: $3k → 7%Springs Rescue Mission: $17k → 9%COSILoveYou: $10k → 9%Bright By Three: $15k → 12%Cheyenne Village Inc: $22k → 9%Cheyenne Village Inc: $10k → 9%Cheyenne Village Inc: $10k → 9%Roundup Fellowship: $2k → 9%TESSA: $10k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $15k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $10k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $10k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $10k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $18k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $3k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $3k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $2k → 9%Silver Key Senior Services: $2k → 9%The Place: $25k → 9%Early Connections Learning Centers: $20k → 9%Early Connections Learning Centers: $16k → 9%Fostering Hope: $16k → 9%Interfaith Hospitality Network: $15k → 9%Fostering Hope: $15k → 9%Early Connections Learning Centers: $11k → 9%Fostering Hope: $10k → 9%Fostering Hope: $10k → 9%TESSA: $9k → 9%Assistance League of Colorado Springs: $8k → 9%Assistance League of Colorado Springs: $7k → 9%Assistance League of Colorado Springs: $5k → 9%Assistance League of Colorado Springs: $5k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $2k → 9%The Place: $2k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $2k → 9%Catamount Institute: $15k → 9%One Nation Walking Together: $10k → 9%Catamount Institute: $10k → 9%One Nation Walking Together: $7k → 9%Catamount Institue: $4k → 9%One Nation Walking Together: $2k → 9%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

WA
MT
MN
NY
WY
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
AR
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 151 repeat orgs$750k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

151 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

151
103

Total granted

$5.1M
$663k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AP
    Atlas Preparatory School Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +247%
  • PE
    Peak Education
    7× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +963%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Colorado Denver
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • RI
    Recidiviz Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

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…

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2
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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3
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

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.

Health
4
Colorado Press Association

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…

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5
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission

The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission educates, advocates, and cultivates peace, justice, nonviolence, and sustainability in the Pikes Peak Region, engaging our world.

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8
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
9
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
10
The Pinon Project

The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.

Human Services
11
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Nonprofit Association; the most unlike its peers is The Bob Telmosse Foundation. 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

201 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 201 of the 284 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
191/201
Grantees still filing
131/201
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $141,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC: $110,000 · OtherCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $112,500 · OtherHomeward Pikes Peak: $112,000 · Other+123 more: $2,763,400 · Other+123 moreAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $247,000 · EducationAtlas Preparatory S…Peak Education: $242,550 · EducationPeak EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $185,650 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEG…THE LEGACY INSTITUTE: $81,000 · EducationTHE LEGACY INSTITUT…Teach for America Inc: $67,500 · EducationTeach for America I…EL PASO COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION: $60,500 · EducationEL PASO COUNTY BAR …UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $57,000 · EducationCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $42,000 · EducationChildren's Literacy Center Inc: $40,000 · Education+6 more: $47,750 · EducationSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesSILVER KE…FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $51,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING…COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO …TRI-LAKES CARES: $45,500 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES…Cheyenne Village: $41,500 · Human ServicesCheyenne …The Place: $30,500 · Human ServicesThe PlaceThe Catamount Institute: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Catam…THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $28,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRIN…TESSA: $26,500 · Human ServicesTESSAB COS WE CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLORADO SPRING: $24,000 · Human ServicesONE NATION WALKING TOGETHER: $24,000 · Human Services+7 more: $56,000 · Human Services+7 moreCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $71,000 · Arts & CultureRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute: $53,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE: $43,710 · Arts & CultureCONCRETE COUCH: $36,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $33,550 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $24,250 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE: $22,500 · Arts & CultureUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSprinkle Art Inc: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $46,500 · Arts & CultureSERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION: $150,000 · HealthPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $62,500 · HealthAbigail Foundation: $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $25,000 · HealthPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $16,500 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $15,500 · HealthMindfulness and Positivity Project: $14,000 · Health+4 more: $29,500 · HealthFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $182,000 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc: $80,000 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $55,500 · Food & NutritionPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $220,000 · PhilanthropyINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak: $30,500 · Philanthropy+6 more: $27,200 · Philanthropy
Other$3,238,900Education$1,070,950Human Services$493,000Arts & Culture$423,510Health$363,000Food & Nutrition$317,500Philanthropy$277,700

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $247,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPeak Education: $242,550 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $185,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $182,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION: $150,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $141,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $112,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak: $112,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $88,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $85,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEGACY INSTITUTE: $81,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $80,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $76,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $71,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON BIKES INC: $67,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetVETERANS PATH INC: $64,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetITHAKA LAND INC: $62,500 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $62,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEL PASO COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION: $60,500 over 6y, 58% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $55,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute: $53,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition: $51,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $51,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbigail Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetYouth Documentary Academy: $46,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES: $45,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCONVERGE LECTURE SERIES: $45,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetREACH PIKES PEAK: $45,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetWESTSIDE CARES INC: $44,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE: $43,710 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $42,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCheyenne Village: $41,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetStableStrides: $40,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYEAR ONE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Literacy Center Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCONCRETE COUCH: $36,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetInnovations in Aging Collaborative: $36,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS: $35,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC: $35,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of the Children - Colorado: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHome Front Military Network: $34,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $33,550 over 4y, 0.1% 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 Atlas Preparatory School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Peak Education ↗
  • Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Homeward Pikes Peak ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGACY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ON BIKES INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS PATH INC ↗
  • Who funds ITHAKA LAND INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds EL PASO COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trails and Open Space Coalition ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds Abigail Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Youth Documentary Academy ↗
  • Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗

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.

El Pomar FoundationCO160.2× affinity106 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Marson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation

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 Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
60report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 284 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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