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1218 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.

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$158kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kRecreation & Sports$6kHuman Services$4kEducation$3kHealth$1kAnimals$700Employment$600Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALMAS COMMUNITY CHURCH$50,000
RIVER MINISTRIES$20,000
PALMAS COMMUNITY CHURCH$13,000
S Morgan$6,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC$2,000
ACADEMY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $100 → 10%HEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $1k → 11%A LITTLE HELP: $300 → 12%COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE: $250 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$167k · 7 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$167k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+18%

Still filing today

29%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsHealthReligionEducationOther

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

  • LE
    Lyons Elevating All Fund
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +65%
  • AO
    ACADEMY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +58%
  • FA
    FARM AT GARDNER VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $700 · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • JS
    J Sigg
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • LC
    LEGACY CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • MC
    MURRAY CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
3
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

4
Comeback Yoga

Comeback yoga provides free, accessible, trauma-informed, science-based yoga classes to the military community to enhance overall health and quality of life.

Health
5
Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Tx

Assisting veterans, military personnel and their families, advocacy for veterans and active duty personnel, historical education and commemoration, promoting patriotism, youth activities and community service. see supplemental information…

6
Veterans Recovery Resources

Our mission is to remove barriers to care, deliver quality integrated health care, and build a better community through recovery and connection. our vision is to build a thriving community where service members, veterans, first responders,…

Public Benefit
7
Amvets (American Veterans)

Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…

8
American Veterans of World War Ii Amvets Department of Ohio

Amvets' mission is to enhance and safeguard the entitlements for all american veterans who have served honorably and to improve the quality of life for them, their families, and the communities where they live through leadership, advocacy,…

9
Usvets - Arizona

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Housing & Shelter
10
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

The organization's purpose is to provide fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational services; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among members; to assist worthy veterans; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to…

11
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Arizona

Our Mission: To foster camaraderie among United States veterans of overseas conflicts. To serve our veterans, the military and our communities. To advocate on behalf of all veterans. Our Vision: Ensure that veterans are respected for their…

12
Warriors Ascent

Empower Those Who Serve to Heal and Thrive

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soldiers' Angels and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Yoga Project Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PALMAS COMMUNITY CHURCH — $90,700 · OtherPALMAS COMMUNITY CHURCHRIVER MINISTRIES — $55,400 · OtherRIVER MINISTRIESSUNSET INTERNATIONAL BIBLE INSTITUTE INC — $7,000 · OtherS Morgan — $6,500 · Other+10 more — $13,900 · Other+10 moreLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC — $6,000 · Recreation & SportsACADEMY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $3,000 · EducationHEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM — $1,000 · Human ServicesA LITTLE HELP — $300 · Human ServicesCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCE — $250 · Human ServicesVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC — $100 · Human ServicesFARM AT GARDNER VILLAGE INC — $700 · HealthVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION — $600 · EmploymentCHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER — $500 · Public Safety & DisasterSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $100 · Public Safety & DisasterBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $150 · Religion
Other$173,500Recreation & Sports$6,000Education$3,000Human Services$1,650Health$700Employment$600Public Safety & Disaster$600Religion$150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLyons Elevating All Fund — $3,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetACADEMY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM AT GARDNER VILLAGE INC — $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA LITTLE HELP — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC
  • Who funds Lyons Elevating All Fund
  • Who funds ACADEMY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds HEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM
  • Who funds FARM AT GARDNER VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER
  • Who funds A LITTLE HELP
  • Who funds COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIMS'S ASSISTANCE
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP
  • Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS
  • Who funds VETERANS YOGA PROJECT 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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 1218 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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