· Public charity
Caring Connection
The organization raises financial support for its member agencies, offers a recognized choice for giving in the work place, and provides other valuable human services to the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $235,830 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $326,024 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,194 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k14 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $76,395 |
| THE ACTION CENTER | $20,991 |
| COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES | $15,367 |
| INNER CITY HEALTH CENTER | $14,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE DENVER | $11,682 |
| COMMUNITY TABLE FKA ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $8,985 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER | $8,129 |
| ALTERNATIVES PREGNANCY CENTER | $8,029 |
| RALSTON HOUSE | $7,876 |
| CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES | $7,845 |
| SACRED HEART HOUSE OF DENVER | $7,666 |
| A PRECIOUS CHILD | $7,388 |
| BIENVENIDOS FOOD BANK | $6,956 |
| DOUGLASELBERT TASK FORCE | $6,850 |
| COLORADO COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $6,289 |
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 (FY17–19, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 73% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSION3× · 2017–2019 · $319k · revenue +57%
- JAJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $83k · revenue +17%
- ICINNER CITY HEALTH CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $74k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- NSNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +76%
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 mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
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.
SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.
As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…
The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center and the most unlike its peers is Bessies Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 22 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 DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Ralston House ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds WAPIYAPI ↗
- Who funds CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Northwest Family Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds Bessies Hope ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED 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 · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Chc Creating Healthier Communities · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Anschutz 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 Caring Connection 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.