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Barton Institute for Community Action

The barton institute supports leaders and their communities who are working to develop and foster places for opportunity, connection, and belonging in metro denver.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$14MPhilanthropy$5.1MHuman Services$3.9MHousing & Shelter$3.0MArts & Culture$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$447kFood & Nutrition$111kEducation$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$946,529
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUN DENVER INC$2,134,259
VILLAGE INSTITUTE$946,529
COLORADO SAFE PARKING INITIATIVE$661,008
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $1.1M → 8%VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $947k → 8%Village Institute: $420k → 8%VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $399k → 8%THE LITTLE VILLAGE LLC: $136k → 8%Village Institute: $31k → 8%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.
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 5 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$12M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+28%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TV
    THE VILLAGE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +23% · 88% of their budget
  • CS
    COLORADO SAFE PARKING INITIATIVE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +110% · 100% of their budget
  • CV
    COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $315k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • LL
    LIFESPAN LOCAL
    one grant, 2022 · $15M
  • MH
    MACHEBEUF HALL PARTNERS LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M
  • ED
    EAST DENVER FOOD HUB
    one grant, 2021 · $111k
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
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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2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
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
4
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
5
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
6
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
7
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
8
Denver Bar Association

To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…

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9
Barton Institute for Community Action

The barton institute supports leaders and their communities who are working to develop and foster places for opportunity, connection, and belonging in metro denver.

Philanthropy
10
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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11
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
12
International School of Denver

Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commun Denver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anti-Defamation League. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFESPAN LOCAL: $14,585,940 · OtherLIFESPAN LOCALCOMMUN: $2,176,542 · OtherCOMMUNMACHEBEUF HALL PARTNERS LLC: $1,058,729 · OtherMACHEBEUF HALL PARTNERS LLC+1 more: $110,500 · OtherCOMMUN DENVER INC: $3,367,238 · PhilanthropyCOMMUN DENVER …+2 more: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $3,022,647 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE …COLORADO SAFE PARKING INITIATIVE: $2,645,812 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO SAF…COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE: $315,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO VIL…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $24,542 · EducationDENVER TENNIS PARK: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $10,000 · Health
Other$17,931,711Philanthropy$3,492,238Human Services$3,022,647Housing & Shelter$2,960,812Civil Rights$25,000Education$24,542Recreation & Sports$20,000Health$10,000

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 budgetCOMMUN DENVER INC: $3,367,238 over 2y, 98% of budgetTHE VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $3,022,647 over 5y, 88% of budgetCOLORADO SAFE PARKING INITIATIVE: $2,645,812 over 4y, 100% of budgetCOLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE: $315,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $24,542 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER TENNIS PARK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Barton Institute for Community Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barton Institute for Community Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 15 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 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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