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The Lewis D & John J Gilbert 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION | $700 |
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 (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS2× · 2017–2019 · $31k · revenue +64%- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +33%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC2× · 2017–2019 · $500 · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TBTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +129%
- CHCraig Hospitalone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +25%
- LGLION GLOBAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +22%
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.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Improving health through innovative science and community engagement.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care, strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.
We make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
To address denver's mental health and substance misuse needs by growing community informed solutions and turning the community's desire to help into action.
To continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Children's Mental Disorders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Nathan Yip Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Center of Denver ↗
- Who funds PRESENTING DENVER ↗
- Who funds SparkHope Automotive ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
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 · Rose Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Lewis D & John J Gilbert 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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