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Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium Dba 35 Mil

Denver area educational telecommunications consortium (daetc dba 35 mile foundation) is organized and will be operated exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific and social welfare purposes within the meaning of sections 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) of the internal revenue code.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$614kCivil Rights$277kHuman Services$163kEducation$160kReligion$85kCommunity Improvement$57kEmployment$52kYouth Development$46kEnvironment$36kOther$917k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $281,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $290,179 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,679 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $224k
$51,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER$97,000
ACCELERATE ACTION INC$75,000
NATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION AL$51,500
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND$25,000
WORKING AMERICA$25,000
OPEN MEDIA FOUNDATION$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $75k → 16%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $30k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $23k → 10%CASA DE PAZ: $15k → 12%ONE COLORADO: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
AZ
SC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$964k · 16 repeat orgs$829k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
28

Total granted

$964k
$695k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $101k · revenue +57%
  • CA
    COLOR ACTION FUND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $69k · revenue +23%
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    2× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • VY
    VOTE YES FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2023 · $66k
  • PF
    PIE FOR PROVIDERS LTD
    one grant, 2023 · $46k · revenue 0% · 30% of their budget
  • FE
    Family Engagement Lab
    one grant, 2023 · $46k · revenue -38%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
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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4
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
5
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
6
Colorado People's Alliance

Colorado people's alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans…

Human Services
7
Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights
8
Towards Justice of Colorado

Towards justice is a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic equity and worker power through impact litigation, strategic policy advocacy, and collaboration with organizers and public agencies. we were founded in response to the…

Civil Rights
9
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
10
United for a New Economy Action

Une action builds people power for racial and economic justice so all coloradans thrive. we do this by organizing in our communities across race, winning bold policy solutions for all, and building a multiracial voting majority that…

Human Services
11
Ethics Watch Dba Colorado Ethics Watch

Ethics watch uses high impact legal actions to hold public officials and organizations accountable for unethical activities that undermine the integrity of government in colorado. the organization accomplishes its mission by combining…

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12
Coloradans for Food Justice

Coloradans for food justice is building community power by making sure that every eater in colorado has a voice to make transformative change that represents a more just food system by mobilizing values-driven voters statewide.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Color Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Pie for Providers Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%18%5–10yr21%26%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%18%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr12%40%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,367

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/46
Grantees still filing
23/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $165,000 · OtherPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INCCIRC ACTION FUND — $105,905 · OtherCIRC ACTION FUNDCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ACTION — $72,000 · OtherCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ACTIONVOTE YES FOR KIDS — $65,589 · OtherVOTE YES FOR KIDSWORKING AMERICA — $55,000 · OtherPIE FOR PROVIDERS LTD — $46,000 · OtherPROJECT FOUNDED INCORPORATED — $46,000 · OtherCOLORADO FAMILIES FOR A FAIR WAGE — $43,660 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Colorado — $40,000 · OtherCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $39,250 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACY — $35,378 · OtherNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE — $51,500 · OtherFamily Engagement Lab — $46,000 · OtherSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $36,000 · Other+13 more — $203,379 · Other+13 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $547,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER…Rose Community Foundation — $30,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECT HUMANITY — $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $12,000 · PhilanthropyWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $100,910 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMIL…MI FAMILIA VOTA — $72,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA VO…COLOR ACTION FUND — $68,773 · Civil RightsCOLOR ACTION …ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $15,000 · Civil RightsROCKY MOUNTAI…Colorado Times Recorder — $10,000 · Civil RightsYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism — $10,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE ACTION INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $52,500 · Human ServicesONE COLORADO — $20,000 · Human ServicesCasa De Paz — $15,000 · Human ServicesEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC — $46,000 · EducationGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND — $34,640 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC — $32,438 · EducationGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $25,000 · EducationPROGRESSNOW COLORADO — $22,000 · EducationSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS — $84,500 · ReligionPEOPLE'S ACTION — $32,438 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,050,661Philanthropy$614,000Civil Rights$276,683Human Services$162,500Education$160,078Religion$84,500Community Improvement$57,438

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $547,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $165,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCIRC ACTION FUND — $105,905 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $100,910 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS — $84,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetACCELERATE ACTION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMI FAMILIA VOTA — $72,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ACTION — $72,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCOLOR ACTION FUND — $68,773 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $52,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE — $51,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPIE FOR PROVIDERS LTD — $46,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetFamily Engagement Lab — $46,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC — $46,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Colorado — $40,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $39,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $35,378 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ACTION FUND — $34,640 over 2y, 55% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC — $32,438 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION — $32,438 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO ISSUE COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONNECT HUMANITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPROGRESSNOW COLORADO — $22,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOBALT ADVOCATES — $20,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNew Era Colorado Action Fund — $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetONE COLORADO — $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCasa De Paz — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Times Recorder — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAPITA SOCIAL INC — $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINOOK FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Rose Community Founda…Tides FoundationAll Hands on Deck Net…Sixteen Thirty FundWay to Win Action Fun…Tides AdvocacyInstructional Telecom…The Denver FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Colorado Health F…The Women's Foundatio…The Colorado Trust
Rose Community FoundationCO29.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust

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 Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium Dba 35 Mil 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium Dba 35 Mil?

    Find your warmest path to Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium Dba 35 Mil 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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