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Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation

The Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation is a public charitable organization with emphasis toward underprivileged and at-risk youth through programs for youth baseball, drug & alcohol awareness, health & violence prevention and education & literacy.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.2MHealth$994kFood & Nutrition$852kHuman Services$710kEducation$692kPhilanthropy$360kRecreation & Sports$250kHousing & Shelter$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k29 grants · $638k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $575k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childrens Hospital Colorado$200,000
Denver Public Schools Found$125,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$100,000
Boys and Girls Club of Denver$100,000
Colorado Uplift$50,000
Denver Dream Center$40,000
Next Chapter Veterans SPP$33,000
Simmons Foundation for Youth$25,000
American Military Family Inc$25,000
Girls Inc of Metro Denver$25,000
Junior Achievement - RM Inc$25,000
Access Opportunity$25,000
CASA of Larimer County$25,000
Boys Hope Girls Hope of CO$25,000
Urban Peak$25,000
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 (FY20–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%It Takes a Village: $80k → 8%Access Opportunity: $25k → 12%Access Opportunity: $20k → 12%Denver Childrens Foundation: $10k → 12%Denver Samaritan House: $10k → 12%Denver Samaritan House: $10k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $10k → 12%American Red Cross: $10k → 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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 34 repeat orgs$993k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
24

Total granted

$4.3M
$865k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+38%

Still filing today

68%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $695k · revenue +47%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $632k · revenue +23%
  • JH
    JUDI'S HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -23%
  • FC
    FEEDING COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue ×11
  • IT
    It Takes A Village Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue +56%
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 Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Denver Police Activities League Inc

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.

Youth Development
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
5
Colorado Children's Campaign

The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…

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6
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
7
Alexander Dawson Foundation

The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…

Education
8
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
9
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
10
Aia Colorado

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…

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11
Denver Police Foundation

To act as an independent and unique funding and advocacy resource for the denver police department to enhance public safety and law enforcement in the denver community.

Human Services
12
Developmental Fx Developmental & Fragile X Resource

The mission of dfx is to prepare children with developmental differences for a bright future of engaged belonging by equipping them, their families, therapists, and teachers via innovative programming in colorado and around the world.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Astros 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

55 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. 55 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $695,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INCChildrens Hospital Colorado: $550,000 · OtherChildrens Hospital ColoradoDREAM CENTER DENVER: $110,000 · OtherJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $100,000 · Other+26 more: $954,400 · Other+26 moreJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $345,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INCDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $285,935 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS F…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY IN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $110,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BO…GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOUNDATIONASTROS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $632,349 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE…FEEDING COLORADO: $100,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING COLORADODENVER FOOD RESCUE: $40,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $105,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $61,500 · EducationWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $60,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationWyatt Academy: $35,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $30,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentMountain Fountain Creations: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGAMEDAY INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentIt Takes A Village Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $45,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $20,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Denver Children's Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $60,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $34,600 · HealthDream On 3: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$2,499,400Philanthropy$1,110,935Food & Nutrition$797,349Education$351,500Youth Development$350,000Human Services$175,000Health$164,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $695,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $632,349 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $345,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $285,935 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $115,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING COLORADO: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetIt Takes A Village Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMountain Fountain Creations: $75,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $75,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHALLENGE AMERICA: $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $61,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAmp the Cause: $51,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $45,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGAMEDAY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHOPE IGNITES COLORADO: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWyatt Academy: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $34,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN MILITARY FAMILY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLAYERS ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetDenver Leadership Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDRY BONES DENVER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetColorado Healing Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS FOUNDATIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Denver FoundationCO42.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Kroenke Sports Charities Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Trust · 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 Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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