Colorado · Nonprofit
JOY AS RESISTANCE
JOY AS RESISTANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,438,971 to it, the largest being Caring for Denver Foundation ($900,165). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOY AS RESISTANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Coloradoshared funderslocal
- The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUTportfolio match
- Centerlink Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 91% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of JOY AS RESISTANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $266k → $480k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JOY AS RESISTANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOY AS RESISTANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JOY AS RESISTANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
74% of JOY AS RESISTANCE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Coloradoshared funderslocalCA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 42 organizations near you
- The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUTportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centerlink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ally Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leonard Litz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philanthrofund Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allies in Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Care Advocates International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equality California Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loveloud Foundation % Tribeca Business Mgmtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared funderslocalCO · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
- The Astraea Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like JOY AS RESISTANCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOY AS RESISTANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JOY AS RESISTANCE?
- JOY AS RESISTANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,438,971 to it, the largest being Caring for Denver Foundation ($900,165). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOY AS RESISTANCE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,438,971 in grants to JOY AS RESISTANCE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOY AS RESISTANCE?
- Caring for Denver Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $900,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOY AS RESISTANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 17funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing