· Private foundation
Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USC UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - USC ELLISON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF CROOK | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $9,000 |
| ASPEN PREP ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA (PBS) | $3,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDEN | $2,500 |
| TRADEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL4× · 2019–2022 · $106k · revenue +14%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES8× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +68%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC3× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- PHPETER H AND E LUCILLE GAASS KUYPER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -28%
- TDThe Denver Children's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +35%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +4%
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.
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.
The denver police activities league's (pal) mission is to create strong communities by providing under-resourced children with opportunities, exposure, and experiences with the intent of changing young people's lives in a positive way.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
Goodwill's mission is to provide education, career development, and employment opportunities to help coloradans in need achieve self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope through the power of work.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Denver public schools foundation is a catalyst for change in dps.
The denver police blue hat foundation provides financial assistance and support to active and former denver police officers, civilian employees of the police department and immediate members of their families in times of crisis.
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds PETER H AND E LUCILLE GAASS KUYPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASPEN PREP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Denver Children's Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds The Denver Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DEBUTANTE BALL INC ↗
- Who funds KICK IT FORWARD ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO POLICE AND FIRE FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds Epilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds PELLA PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles and Karen Farver Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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