· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+64 grants · $39M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDAT | $2,791,152 |
| CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER - DENVER | $2,104,859 |
| CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER - DEPARTM | $1,609,279 |
| LA RAZA SERVICES INC | $1,458,975 |
| COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE | $1,001,326 |
| URBAN PEAK | $949,841 |
| CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $887,409 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $879,224 |
| STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION | $871,817 |
| 5280 HIGH SCHOOL | $856,033 |
| DENVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPOR | $822,720 |
| CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER - 911 COM | $785,163 |
| MILE-HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND | $753,454 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE | $752,993 |
| COLORADO GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $735,391 |
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 (FY20–25, $29.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
164 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2025, 94 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M 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
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $11M · revenue +127%- TLThe Latino Coalition for Community Leadership5× · 2020–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +61%
- THTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE6× · 2020–2025 · $6.0M · revenue ×16 · 57% of their budget
Funded once
- LLLIFESPAN LOCAL INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -20%
- FRFront Range Area Health Education Centerone grant, 2023 · $848k · revenue -45% · 51% of their budget
- MSMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $813k · revenue +66%
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.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.
Empowering victims and creating a bridge to close the gap for people with disabilities through discovery of self-resiliency by providing support and services.
To promote successful second chances, reduce recidivism, and enhance the well-being and safety of our community.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
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…
Cbhc's mission is to support community resilience, guide behavioral health innovation, and enhance individual well-being throughout colorado by supporting colorado's community behavioral health safety net providers.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Out Front Foundation. 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 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
241 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. 241 of the 258 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership ↗
- Who funds THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRIBE RECOVERY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Center of Denver ↗
- Who funds THRIVING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds PARADIGMONE INC ↗
- Who funds Struggle of Love Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOBRIETY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FULLY LIBERATED YOUTH ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds 5280 HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Center for African American Health ↗
- Who funds SOAR - SEEING OUR ADOLESCENTS RISE ↗
- Who funds Vive ↗
- Who funds ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life-Line Colorado ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA ↗
- Who funds Khesed Wellness a Colorado Nonprofit DBA Kind Therapy Inc ↗
- Who funds METROVOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
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: 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
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 for Denver Foundation 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.