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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 FY2025still arriving
95
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $4.6M
  • $250k+64 grants · $39M
$351,173
Median grant
3
States reached
$115M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IT TAKES A VILLAGE INC: $628k → 8%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COL: $378k → 12%Second Chance Center: $450k → 8%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian: $242k → 12%COLORADO JUVENILE DEFENDER CENTER: $318k → 7%Asian Pacific Development Center (Denver): $390k → 8%COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WI: $360k → 8%ATTENTION INC: $336k → 12%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $633k → 10%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $584k → 10%Para ti Mujer: $276k → 7%Second Chance Center Inc: $289k → 10%PARKER PERSONAL CARE HOMES - UPROUT: $299k → 7%ADVOCATES FOR RECOVERY COLORADO: $562k → 10%KIDS ABOVE EVERYTHING: $241k → 12%SAVIO HOUSE: $314k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE: $753k → 12%Catholic Charities and Community Services of the A: $659k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SE: $368k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $310k → 12%ELEMENTS OF DISCOVERY - THERAPIST O: $848k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUMAN SERVICES: $563k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $340k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $326k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $300k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $382k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $277k → 12%The Center for Trauma & Resilience: $1.5M → 12%THE CENTER FOR TRAUMA & RESILIENCE: $816k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $487k → 12%REMERG: $318k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $299k → 12%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $872k → 12%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $326k → 12%STREET'S HOPE: $281k → 12%Struggle of Love Foundation: $312k → 12%Struggle of Love Foundation: $281k → 12%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $330k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $316k → 12%Heart of Boardwalk: $320k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $306k → 12%HEART OF BOARDWALK: $279k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $526k → 12%Sobriety House Inc: $330k → 12%Tribe Recovery Homes: $972k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $670k → 12%THRIVING FAMILIES: $515k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $312k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
SD
PA
CT
UT
CO
MO
MD
DE
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$192M · 164 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

164
74

Total granted

$192M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

94%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11M · revenue +127%
  • TL
    The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +61%
  • TH
    THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6.0M · revenue ×16 · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • LL
    LIFESPAN LOCAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -20%
  • FR
    Front Range Area Health Education Center
    one grant, 2023 · $848k · revenue -45% · 51% of their budget
  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $813k · revenue +66%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

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.

Health
4
Colorado Health Institute
Health
5
Denver Area Youth Services

To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.

Human Services
6
Domestic Violence Initiative for Women With Disabilities

Empowering victims and creating a bridge to close the gap for people with disabilities through discovery of self-resiliency by providing support and services.

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7
Focus Reentry

To promote successful second chances, reduce recidivism, and enhance the well-being and safety of our community.

Crime & Legal
8
La Plata Youth Services

La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.

Crime & Legal
9
Summitstone Health Partners

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…

Health
10
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council

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.

Health
11
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
12
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home; 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.
04the grantee network

241 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

79
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
239/241
Grantees still filing
160/241
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF DENVER COLORADO: $39,904,269 · OtherCITY OF DENVER COLORADODENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $10,899,785 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $4,982,230 · Other+67 more: $38,523,327 · Other+67 moreTRIBE RECOVERY HOMES INC: $3,305,842 · HealthTRIBE RECOVERY HO…BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO: $2,640,213 · HealthBRAIN INJURY ASSO…MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE: $2,102,037 · HealthMILE HIGH COUNCIL…Mental Health Center of Denver: $2,071,256 · HealthMental Health Cen…PARADIGMONE INC: $1,953,445 · HealthPARADIGMONE INCSOBRIETY HOUSE INC: $1,709,734 · HealthSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,287,226 · HealthLA COCINA: $1,228,869 · HealthKhesed Wellness a Colorado Nonprofit DBA Kind Therapy Inc: $1,218,898 · Health+27 more: $14,665,540 · Health+27 moreSecond Chance Center Inc: $2,451,458 · Human ServicesSecond Chance C…The Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR: $2,339,270 · Human ServicesThe Center for …THRIVING FAMILIES: $2,054,706 · Human ServicesTHRIVING FAMILI…CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $2,039,429 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…Struggle of Love Foundation: $1,815,663 · Human ServicesStruggle of Lov…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $1,065,594 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $1,006,076 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $984,575 · Human Services+29 more: $14,969,584 · Human Services+29 moreTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $6,023,805 · EducationTHE HADANO…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $2,122,138 · EducationUNIVERSITY…5280 HIGH SCHOOL: $1,542,371 · Education5280 HIGH …SOAR - SEEING OUR ADOLESCENTS RISE: $1,480,591 · EducationSOAR - SEE…Montbello Organizing Committee: $963,492 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $812,864 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $662,930 · Education+15 more: $5,348,511 · Education+15 moreThe Latino Coalition for Community Leadership: $6,133,195 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $2,403,786 · Community ImprovementMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $1,573,454 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health: $1,491,858 · Community ImprovementDENVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,027,420 · Community ImprovementVuela for Health: $1,004,590 · Community ImprovementDENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC: $694,710 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURPOSE: $635,583 · Community Improvement+3 more: $788,491 · Community ImprovementFULLY LIBERATED YOUTH: $1,687,711 · Youth DevelopmentVive: $1,412,348 · Youth DevelopmentMUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT: $1,204,252 · Youth DevelopmentSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC: $997,527 · Youth DevelopmentSTAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC: $856,400 · Youth DevelopmentThe ROCK Center: $820,241 · Youth DevelopmentACADEMY OF URBAN LEARNING: $574,684 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $515,855 · Youth DevelopmentMake A Chess Move: $379,375 · Youth Development+6 more: $1,361,455 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN PEAK DENVER: $2,531,188 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE: $2,119,826 · Housing & ShelterTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES: $1,201,213 · Housing & ShelterTHE DELORES PROJECT: $894,345 · Housing & ShelterCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $887,409 · Housing & ShelterProject Restart Inc: $835,686 · Housing & ShelterARCHWAY HOUSING & SERVICES: $331,570 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $533,874 · Housing & Shelter
Other$94,309,611Health$32,183,060Human Services$28,726,355Education$18,956,702Community Improvement$15,753,087Youth Development$9,809,848Housing & Shelter$9,335,111

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 F…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationCaring for Colorado F…Colorado Gives Founda…Latino Community Foun…The Women's Foundatio…The Colorado TrustThe Anschutz Foundati…Mile High United Way …Trailhead InstituteSchlessman Foundation…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Caring for Denver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caring for Denver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Postpartum Support International: 43% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
107report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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