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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.

$326k
Granted FY2019
19
Itemized grants FY2019
19
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$236k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$7,845
Largest grant, FY2019
$76,395
Organizations funded a year
17 to 22
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations Caring Connection funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Recreation & SportsHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201919$236k0%
FY201822$398k23%
FY201717$314kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$524kHealth$172kHousing & Shelter$87kFood & Nutrition$85kRecreation & Sports$30kReligion$25kAnimals$24k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Caring Connection supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $319,480 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center: $83,326 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetInner City Health Center: $74,192 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetColorado Homeless Families Inc: $64,412 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $45,054 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAlternatives Pregnancy Center Inc: $39,230 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRalston House: $38,649 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMetro Caring: $27,655 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center: $25,928 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCanine Partners of the Rockies Inc: $24,176 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetWapiyapi: $24,140 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCastle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force: $22,413 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetColorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence: $20,638 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSafehouse Denver Inc: $18,843 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDevelopmental Disabilities Resource Center: $17,186 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Precious Child Inc: $17,153 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center Inc: $15,719 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian Services: $13,871 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNorthwest Family Assistance Center: $12,624 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBessies Hope: $12,081 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNational Sports Center for the Disabled Inc: $5,751 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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 FoundationCO35.5× affinity16 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 · 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

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.

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About Caring Connection

How much does Caring Connection give?
Caring Connection reported 19 itemized grants totaling $235,830, out of $326,024 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Caring Connection fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Health (18%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Caring Connection's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Denver Rescue Mission ($319k), Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center ($83k), Inner City Health Center ($74k).
Does Caring Connection fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Caring Connection?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Mile High United Way Inc.
Where is Caring Connection based?
Caring Connection is based in CO.

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 22 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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