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Twelve Twenty-One Fund at a glance

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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.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$212kHealth$158kHuman Services$153kArts & Culture$150kEducation$148kReligion$87kFood & Nutrition$70kYouth Development$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Food Bank of the Rockies$6,000
Planned Parenthood$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
Denver Museum of Nature and Science$5,000
Judaism Your Way$5,000
Family Counseling Services$5,000
Wikimedia Foundation$5,000
Denver Jewish Day School$4,500
Sportswomen of Colorado$4,000
Camp for All Kids$3,900
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMAGINE LA: $3k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $2k → 14%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $10k → 8%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $5k → 8%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $5k → 8%Feedom Service Dogs: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $11k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $11k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $11k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $8k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $3k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $2k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $4k → 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

IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
MO
DC
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 54 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +70% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
23

Total granted

$1.1M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+70%

Still filing today

52%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +107%
  • CR
    CMT Research Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +413%
  • CB
    COLORADO BALLET
    7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +39%
  • PT
    PARAMOUNT THEATRE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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 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
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
Colorado State University Foundation

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…

Education
4
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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5
Denver Film Society

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

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7
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

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.

Environment
8
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
9
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
10
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Mountain Area Land Trust

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.

Environment
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 Denver Rescue Mission; 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.
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 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
38/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION: $117,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGIONAnti Defamation League - Mtn States: $90,000 · OtherAnti Defamation League - Mtn StatesASPEN ACADEMY: $30,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood: $25,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $24,500 · OtherFamily Counseling Services: $22,500 · Other+45 more: $357,106 · Other+45 moreCMT Research Foundation Inc: $67,500 · HealthCMT Researc…CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $43,000 · HealthCHARCOT-MAR…COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $7,000 · HealthCOLORADO CE…+5 more: $12,000 · Health+5 moreDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $38,000 · EducationDENVER JEWI…CAMP NICOLET FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 · EducationCAMP NICOLE…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $19,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · EducationWIKIMEDIA F…AURORA UNIVERSITY: $13,500 · EducationAURORA UNIV…+2 more: $4,500 · EducationCOLORADO BALLET: $52,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO B…DENVER ART MUSEUM: $36,500 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART…AURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureAURORA HIS…FOX VALLEY MUSIC FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureFOX VALLEY…Colorado Museum of Natural History: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $71,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CO…Companions for Heroes: $5,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $40,000 · Food & NutritionAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $21,000 · Food & NutritionRose Community Foundation: $31,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColorado: $8,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$666,606Health$129,500Education$126,000Arts & Culture$118,000Human Services$110,000Food & Nutrition$61,000Philanthropy$42,000

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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $71,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCMT Research Foundation Inc: $67,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET: $52,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $43,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $36,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP NICOLET FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDOMINO SERVICE DOGS: $20,300 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUDAISM YOUR WAY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLFAX COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $11,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSportswomen of Colorado Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $9,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOX VALLEY MUSIC FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompanions for Heroes: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp for All Kids: $3,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMUS PACIS FAMILY RESPITE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 ↗

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 Founda…Rose Community Founda…Sending Support Found…Carson Family Foundat…Community Foundation …Dunham FundThe Denver FoundationFox Valley United WayJEWISHColoradoJewish Federation of …Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO27.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Twelve Twenty-One Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twelve Twenty-One Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    How do I get to Twelve Twenty-One Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Twelve Twenty-One Fund 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 84 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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