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Twelve Twenty-One Fund
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 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 $10k31 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Anti Defamation League - Mtn States | $22,500 |
| CMT Research Foundation | $15,000 |
| Jewish Family Service | $11,000 |
| Camp Nicolet Foundation | $7,500 |
| Rose Community Foundation | $7,500 |
| Planned Parenthood | $6,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Denver Museum of Nature and Science | $5,000 |
| Family Counseling Services | $5,000 |
| Judaism Your Way | $5,000 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | $5,000 |
| Denver Jewish Day School | $4,500 |
| Sportswomen of Colorado | $4,000 |
| Camp for All Kids | $3,900 |
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, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +70% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +107%
- CRCMT Research Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +413%
- CBCOLORADO BALLET7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWAone grant, 2017 · $19k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +39%
- PTPARAMOUNT THEATREone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
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…
The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 84 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds CMT Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAMP NICOLET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DOMINO SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLFAX COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sportswomen of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
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 · Sending Support Foundation · Carson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Fund · The Denver Foundation · Fox Valley United Way · JEWISHColorado · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way 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 Twelve Twenty-One Fund 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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