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Watson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUDDENLY PINK FOUNDATION | $4,521 |
| TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS | $2,500 |
| THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $518 |
| WESLEY PLAYERS THEATER COMPANY | $500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $150 |
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 (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- TITEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +165%
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSION6× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +57%
- CGColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance4× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- ICILLUMINATE COMMUNITY RECOVERY SERVIgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×14
- ILINTERFAITH LEADERSHIP COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $2k
- BCBOULDER COUNTY CRISIS FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The foundation responds to the urgent needs of coloradans with cancer by providing financial assistance with dignity and humanity.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
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.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To create patient-centered innovations to improve health care delivery by partnering with patients, health care organizations, academic institutions, and private practices.
The mission of the ceo roundtable on cancer is to make continual progress toward the elimination of cancer as a personal disease and public health problem through initiatives that reduce the risk of cancer, enable early diagnosis,…
Provide financial assistance to people who need breast screening and/or breast cancer treatment.
Epic experiences mission is to empower adult cancer survivors and thrivers to live beyond cancer.
To provide a Sense of Security from financial hardship and enhance the quality of life for Colorado breast cancer patients in treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Wesley Players Theatre Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 33 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 THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUDDENLY PINK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATE COMMUNITY RECOVERY SERVI ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FACE IT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance ↗
- Who funds HEARTLIGHT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUT AND ABOUT COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Denver ↗
- Who funds THE SUE MILLER DAY OF CARING ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY PLAYERS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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 · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Watson Family 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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