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Caring for Denver Foundation

To address denver's mental health and substance misuse needs by growing community informed solutions and turning the community's desire to help into action.

$44M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
95
Grants FY2025
93
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$351,173
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,791,152
Organizations funded a year
1 to 136
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$115M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Caring for Denver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.6M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2025still arriving87$44M20%
FY202493$45M29%
FY2023100$45M36%
FY2022136$28M26%
FY2021119$33M69%
FY202058$16M98%
FY20191$3.7Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$77MYouth Development$28MHuman Services$25MCrime & Legal$21MCommunity Improvement$16MHousing & Shelter$13MEducation$11MPublic Safety & Disaster$11MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Denver Colorado$39,904,2697n/a
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation$10,899,785519%
The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership$6,133,195516%
The Hadanou Collective$6,023,805657%
La Raza Services Inc$4,982,230617%
Tribe Recovery Homes Inc$3,305,84252%
Barton Institute for Community Action$2,879,676525%
Brain Injury Association of Colorado$2,640,213445%
Urban Peak Denver$2,531,18866%
Second Chance Center Inc$2,451,458518%
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All grantees of Caring for Denver Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Denver Colorado$39,904,2697n/a
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation$10,899,785519%
The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership$6,133,195516%
The Hadanou Collective$6,023,805657%
La Raza Services Inc$4,982,230617%
Tribe Recovery Homes Inc$3,305,84252%
Barton Institute for Community Action$2,879,676525%
Brain Injury Association of Colorado$2,640,213445%
Urban Peak Denver$2,531,18866%
Second Chance Center Inc$2,451,458518%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$2,403,78666%
The Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR$2,339,270264%
University of Denver$2,122,13830%
Colorado Village Collaborative$2,119,826418%
Mile High Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse$2,102,037410%
Mental Health Center of Denver$2,071,25631%
Thriving Families$2,054,706595%
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver$2,039,42952%
Paradigmone Inc$1,953,445396%
Struggle of Love Foundation$1,815,663538%
Sobriety House Inc$1,709,734512%
Fully Liberated Youth$1,687,711348%
Denver Children's Advocacy Center$1,678,048421%
Maria Droste Services of Colorado Inc$1,573,454518%
5280 High School$1,542,37156%
Center for African American Health$1,491,858320%
Soar - Seeing Our Adolescents Rise$1,480,591426%
Denver Public Schools$1,464,2724n/a
Vive$1,412,348468%
Rose Andom Center Inc$1,293,379516%
Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation$1,287,226310%
Life-Line Colorado$1,263,322343%
La Cocina$1,228,869456%
Khesed Wellness a Colorado Nonprofit DBA Kind Therapy Inc$1,218,898460%
Metrovolunteers$1,210,361313%
Muslim Youth for Positive Impact$1,204,252328%
The Gathering Place a Refuge for Rebuilding Lives$1,201,213511%
The Empowerment Program Inc$1,121,595317%
Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc$1,065,59442%
Denver Community Development Corp$1,027,420248%
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless$1,006,07650%
Vuela for Health$1,004,590327%
Lifespan Local Inc$1,001,825116%
Sims-Fayola Foundation Inc$997,527444%
Sun Valley Youth Center Inc$984,575333%
Colorado Meth Project$973,625428%
Montbello Organizing Committee$963,492213%
Denver Family Institute$954,499453%
Crisis Text Line Inc$949,06231%
Colorado Gerontological Society$930,185213%
Karis Community$921,951431%
Rocky Mountain Human Services$901,08921%
Joy as Resistance$900,165396%
The Delores Project$894,345416%
Corporation for Supportive Housing$887,4091n/a
Adams Purpose$883,9742n/a
Mental Health America of Colorado$882,648211%
Warren Village Inc$864,86435%
Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores$864,340536%
Star Girlz Empowerment Inc$856,400362%
Rise Up Community School$854,498318%
Front Range Area Health Education Center$847,563151%
Project Restart Inc$835,686335%
Youth on Record$825,369318%
The ROCK Center$820,241472%
Dream Center Denver$818,9893n/a
Samaritan Counseling Center$812,895318%
Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Inc$812,86416%
Developmental Fx Developmental & Fragile X Resource$803,703422%
Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home$764,60133%
Savio House$732,06232%
Spero Recovery Inc$724,546137%
Streets Hope$712,397431%
Lincoln Hills Cares$704,250344%
Colorado Artists in Recovery$698,820368%
The Salvation Army$694,7354n/a
Denver Civic Ventures Inc$694,710213%
Step Denver$692,86639%
Queer Asterisk$679,947228%
Stout Street Foundation$670,58248%
University of Colorado Foundation$662,93020%
Sober AF Entertainment Inc$653,183373%
Dont Look Back Center Inc$647,750426%
Brink Literacy Project$639,215331%
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado$638,997210%
Crosspurpose$635,58334%
It Takes A Village Inc$627,8471n/a
Upstream Education Inc$622,817241%
Alta Vista Center for Autism$620,60019%
Vivent Health Inc$614,59811%
Colorado Women's Employment & Education Inc$609,558115%
My Father's House$605,431270%
Heart of Boardwalk$598,923242%
Mirror Image$576,423433%
Colorado Mental Wellness Network$575,852265%
Academy of Urban Learning$574,68438%
Culinarians Helping Entrepreneurial Folks Chef Inc$570,6551n/a
Ardent Grove Foundation$566,611247%
Advocates for Recovery Colorado$562,057136%
Metro Crisis Services Inc$558,19524%
From the Heart Enterprises$553,4803n/a
Asian Pacific Development Center of COLORADO$547,768311%
Young People in Recovery$537,968211%
Caring for Denver Foundation$524,66840%
Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver$515,85546%
Project Pave Inc$511,483329%
Culinary Hospitality Outreach and Wellness$510,038454%
The Road Called Strate$509,886240%
Crowley Foundation Inc$509,320470%
Raise the Future$505,41723%
The Next Chapter Inc$501,148284%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc$493,40621%
Denver Rescue Mission$489,81731%
Colorado Dream Foundation$488,758218%
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network$485,79135%
Community Outreach Service Center Inc$481,075287%
The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver$466,10536%
The Blue Bench$463,11237%
Sisters of Color United for Education$454,140240%
The Storytellers Project$446,190197%
Family Star Inc$443,85431%
Trailhead Institute$429,75031%
Colorado Juvenile Defender Center DBA Transformative Justice Proj of Colo$408,250252%
Homies Unidos Denver$401,146241%
Strive Preparatory Schools$392,22921%
Platteforum$388,000326%
Denver Public Library Friends Foundation$382,61316%
Adoption Options$382,037313%
Make A Chess Move$379,375368%
New Dance Theatre Inc$377,67525%
Colorado Public Television$377,10017%
Volunteers of America Colorado Branch$371,0664n/a
Dsst Public Schools Foundation$368,85019%
Rocky Mountain Welcome Center$363,4051n/a
Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities Inc$359,575114%
Latino Cultural Arts Center$357,534253%
Colorado Health Network Inc$353,71141%
Ability Connection Colorado Inc$347,44214%
Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgend Community Center of Colorado$347,33137%
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado$347,08331%
Postpartum Support International$345,90922%
Para Ti Mujer$344,862230%
Padres Unidos Inc$344,611128%
Mile High 360$341,075216%
Attention Inc$335,5401n/a
West Community Economic Development Corp$331,810217%
Archway Housing & Services$331,57026%
Remerg$317,6001n/a
Second Wind Fund Inc$312,200412%
Mile High Ministries$312,148112%
Colorado Perinatal Mental Health Project$311,4581n/a
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change$310,000244%
Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts Foundation$306,553259%
PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK$306,400113%
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning$305,92617%
Wings Foundation Inc$303,250121%
Women's Wilderness Institute$302,950215%
Movement 5280$300,606314%
Launch Network$300,000236%
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc$299,680224%
Aurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center Inc$282,39910%
Latinx Therapist Project$280,2181n/a
Convivir Colorado$278,781180%
Summer Scholars$278,12829%
Colorado Changemakers Collective$275,5152n/a
Judi's House Inc$275,50843%
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association$256,125194%
Griffith Centers$246,96122%
Youth Seen$243,860212%
Face It Together Inc$243,470212%
Kids Above Everything$240,500149%
Su Teatro Inc$234,000216%
Denver Community Ventures$233,268159%
Mercy Housing Mountain Plains$228,0531n/a
Denver Scholarship Foundation$226,92911%
The St Francis Center$223,47031%
Colorado Black Health Collaborative$222,255315%
Denver Youth Program$220,810116%
Art From Ashes Incorporated$219,833326%
The Community Firm$214,09410%
Mile High Workshop Inc$210,320212%
Revel$204,66618%
Out Front Foundation$202,076271%
Revision$201,5001n/a
Authentic Recovery Inc$201,5001n/a
Project VOYCE$200,00025%
Veterans of Hope Project$198,171297%
Scd Enrichment Program$195,750137%
Hands to the Future Inc$193,500161%
Realness Project$188,274246%
Latina SafeHouse Initiative$186,064127%
Redline$183,24017%
Regents of the University of Colorado$183,2053n/a
The Center for Social Creativity$181,1661n/a
La Clinica Tepeyac$176,01912%
Think 360 Arts for Learning$173,411216%
The Other Side Academy$170,66021%
Colorado Youth Congress$167,416120%
Nami Colorado$167,2501n/a
Creative Strategies for Change$163,613224%
Holistic Life Foundation Inc$161,87924%
CHEF inc$159,8501n/a
Greater Denver Cares Mentoring$155,300166%
Sun Valley Community Center$153,883118%
Haven of Hope$152,3781n/a
Rooted 303$140,488168%
Full Circle Program Inc$133,00014%
Denver Children's Home$129,50021%
Tigrai Community of Colorado$126,548115%
Denver Indian Family Resource Center$120,00026%
Clayton Early Learning Trustee George W Clayton Trust$117,8552n/a
TruNorth Foundation$117,00019%
A Little Help$117,000111%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$112,93820%
Victory Project-based Academics & Competency$110,150125%
Women's Bean Project$105,66114%
Una Mano Una Esperanza$105,314121%
Resilient Communities Resilient Futures Inc$103,929115%
Bayaud Enterprises Inc$100,75011%
Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc$99,98712%
Colorado African Cultural Center$98,4671n/a
The Urban Institute$96,36620%
Youthroots$92,70029%
Words to Power$85,500163%
Mile High United Way Inc$84,71610%
Poetry for Personal Power Inc$82,318117%
Project Helping$81,10023%
Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth$76,608137%
Kaleidoscope Project$76,2682n/a
Heart and Hand Center$75,75015%
Youth Advocate Programs Inc$75,75010%
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc$75,00010%
National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc$73,33012%
Generation Schools Network Inc$66,20012%
The Reciprocity Collective$65,260217%
Words to Power$65,0002n/a
Elephant Circle$64,06313%
Turning Point of the City$60,500167%
Seasoned With Grace Unboxed$50,250114%
Young African Americans for Social and Political Activism$50,00012%
The Village Institute$49,99915%
First Descents$35,00011%
Denver Early Childhood Council$33,3501n/a
Sacred Voices$31,850132%
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit$30,00012%
Casa Milagro Youth Solutions Inc$29,576135%
Youth Employment Academy$25,00011%
Frontage Laboratories Inc$24,0001n/a
Friends of the Haven$20,00015%
Denver Film Society$15,00010%
Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc$15,00010%
Seeking Common Ground Inc$13,24016%
Colorado Music Bridge$5,25012%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($584k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Caring for Denver Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 79 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDenver Health and Hospitals Foundation: $10,899,785 over 5y, 19% of budgetThe Latino Coalition for Community Leadership: $6,133,195 over 5y, 16% of budgetThe Hadanou Collective: $6,023,805 over 6y, 57% of budgetLa Raza Services Inc: $4,982,230 over 6y, 17% of budgetTribe Recovery Homes Inc: $3,305,842 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBarton Institute for Community Action: $2,879,676 over 5y, 25% of budgetBrain Injury Association of Colorado: $2,640,213 over 4y, 45% of budgetUrban Peak Denver: $2,531,188 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetSecond Chance Center Inc: $2,451,458 over 5y, 18% of budgetThe Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $2,403,786 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetThe Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR: $2,339,270 over 2y, 64% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $2,122,138 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Village Collaborative: $2,119,826 over 4y, 18% of budgetMile High Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: $2,102,037 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver: $2,071,256 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThriving Families: $2,054,706 over 5y, 95% of budgetCatholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver: $2,039,429 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetParadigmone Inc: $1,953,445 over 3y, 96% of budgetStruggle of Love Foundation: $1,815,663 over 5y, 38% of budgetSobriety House Inc: $1,709,734 over 5y, 12% of budgetFully Liberated Youth: $1,687,711 over 3y, 48% of budgetDenver Children's Advocacy Center: $1,678,048 over 4y, 21% of budgetMaria Droste Services of Colorado Inc: $1,573,454 over 5y, 18% of budget5280 High School: $1,542,371 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $1,491,858 over 3y, 20% of budgetSoar - Seeing Our Adolescents Rise: $1,480,591 over 4y, 26% of budgetVive: $1,412,348 over 4y, 68% of budgetRose Andom Center Inc: $1,293,379 over 5y, 16% of budgetSaint Joseph Hospital Foundation: $1,287,226 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetLife-Line Colorado: $1,263,322 over 3y, 43% of budgetLa Cocina: $1,228,869 over 4y, 56% of budgetKhesed Wellness a Colorado Nonprofit DBA Kind Therapy Inc: $1,218,898 over 4y, 60% of budgetMetrovolunteers: $1,210,361 over 3y, 13% of budgetMuslim Youth for Positive Impact: $1,204,252 over 3y, 28% of budgetThe Gathering Place a Refuge for Rebuilding Lives: $1,201,213 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Empowerment Program Inc: $1,121,595 over 3y, 17% of budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $1,065,594 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetDenver Community Development Corp: $1,027,420 over 2y, 48% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $1,006,076 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVuela for Health: $1,004,590 over 3y, 27% of budgetLifespan Local Inc: $1,001,825 over 1y, 16% of budgetSims-Fayola Foundation Inc: $997,527 over 4y, 44% of budgetSun Valley Youth Center Inc: $984,575 over 3y, 33% of budgetColorado Meth Project: $973,625 over 4y, 28% of budgetMontbello Organizing Committee: $963,492 over 2y, 13% of budgetDenver Family Institute: $954,499 over 4y, 53% of budgetCrisis Text Line Inc: $949,062 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetColorado Gerontological Society: $930,185 over 2y, 13% 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 200.

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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.

The Colorado Health FoundationCO211.6× affinity163 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust · The Anschutz Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Trailhead Institute · Schlessman Foundation Inc

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 for Denver Foundation

How much does Caring for Denver Foundation give?
Caring for Denver Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $43,607,832 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 136 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Caring for Denver Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Youth Development (13%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Caring for Denver Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: City of Denver Colorado ($40M), Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation ($11M), The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership ($6.1M).
Does Caring for Denver Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Caring for Denver Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Colorado Health Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is Caring for Denver Foundation based?
Caring for Denver Foundation 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 258 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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