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· Public charity
BEADFORLIFE
Supporting other non-profits that support entrepreneurial training for people living in poverty
$450k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants
1
Communities
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
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2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2022 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$838k
Total assets
Largest grants
- STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL$200,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Child Empowerment International
Human Services
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Urban Outreach Denver
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
Human Services
3
The Denver Homeless Voice
The Denver VOICE employs individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty in the Denver area through the production and sale of the Denver VOICE, a monthly newspaper publication that helps to break down barriers and misconceptions about…
Arts & Culture
4
Seven Sisters International
Seven Sisters International provides rehabilitative care to children who have been rescued from trafficking and abuse. Services include medical and psychological services, social work, education, life skills training, job training, and…
Human Services
5
Shared Hope International
Shared hope international exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. we are leaders in a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness.
Human Services
6
The Avery Center
We are leading the change-makers in our community and across the nation to end commercial sexual exploitation. Our research is used to reduce demand, convict traffickers, and decrease barriers for marginalized populations through evidence…
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7
Be Hope International
Religion
8
Streets Hope
Street's Hope provides direct services to human trafficking survivors in Colorado. Services including housing assisstance, housing support and a range of behavioral health services.
Human Services
9
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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10
Denverworks Inc
To empower the unemployed and those with barriers to employment to become self-supporting through job preparation and placement.
Employment
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Braveworks
Our vision is to be a catalyst for god-inspired transformation through artisan enterprise, leading to abundant & purposeful lives. our mission is to empower women & families overcoming trauma & injustice, bridging the gap from pain to…
Human Services
12
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. They offer a range of programs to serve families on the continuum from…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Precious Child Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Aspen Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
04the grantee network
21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2021–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since you first funded
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.
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 FoundationCO27.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Denver Post Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 organisation BEADFORLIFE 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
’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY21–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 831055723 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Beadforlife?
Find your warmest path to Beadforlife through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines