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Denver Broncos Alumni Charities

DENVER BRONCOS ALUMNI CHARITIES is formed to raise money for and awareness of other 501(c)(3) community organizations that serve schools, the youth, underprivileged, and the sick.

$337k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$101kEducation$96kYouth Development$91kHuman Services$66kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$15kCrime & Legal$15k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $326,508, the rows itemized in this filing. The $337,016 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,508 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $276k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$521k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL$50,500
A PRECIOUS CHILD$25,508
COLORADO SPILLIONAIRS YOUTH ORGANIZATION$25,000
PORTER BILLUPS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (REGIS UNIVERSITY)$25,000
SHAKA FRANKLIN FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH$15,500
CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER$15,000
THE YESS INSTITUTE$15,000
MAKE A CHESS MOVE - MACM$15,000
DENVER KIDS INC$15,000
AURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION$15,000
NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED$15,000
GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION$15,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS$15,000
KEMPE FOUNDATION$15,000
SIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $26k → 5%AURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $15k → 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $15k → 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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 4 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$147k
$261k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationCrime & 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

  • CS
    COLORADO SPILLIONAIRS YOUTH ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $51k
  • NS
    NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +33%
  • AP
    A PRECIOUS CHILD INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue -25%
  • JF
    JOHN & FLORENCE FORTUNE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -69%
  • SF
    SHAKA FRANKLIN FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
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
Ascend College Prep

Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…

Education
2
The Colorado Soccer Foundation

Make the game of soccer accessible to all kids who want to play

Recreation & Sports
3
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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4
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
5
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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6
Friends of Denver School of the Arts

The denver school of arts friends foundation's mission is to support the denver school of the arts' vision while enhancing programming, inclusiveness and diversity within the school and community.

Arts & Culture
7
Prodigy Ventures Inc

Through high caliber professional development and hands-on learning in a prodigy enterprise, youth from low-income communities in denver build skills, social capital and understanding for success in the new economy.

Employment
8
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
9
Denver Academy Inc

Education of students with learning differences

Education
10
Denver Tennis Park

The denver tennis park was founded to operate a youth-serving tennis facility and conduct related programs and activities which serve denver public schools, the university of denver, youth outreach, and the general public.

Recreation & Sports
11
Skyline Soccer Association

Skyline Soccer Association's philosophy is "To Teach, To Inspire, To Excel". The organization implements this philosophy in all aspects of their programs. Through their leagues and camps, they develop a foundation for players to thrive, be…

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12
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is John & Florence Fortune 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO SPILLIONAIRS YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $51,000 · OtherCOLORADO SPILLIONAIRS YOUTH ORGANIZ…THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $50,500 · OtherTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOLDENVER KAPPA ALPHA PSI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherDENVER KAPPA ALPHA PSI SCHOLARSHIP …Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists: $10,000 · OtherColorado Association of Black Profe…SHAKA FRANKLIN FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH: $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentSHAKA FRANKLIN FOUNDATI…SIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION …Make A Chess Move: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMake A Chess MoveCommunity Athletic Soccer Academy: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Athletic Socc…ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING …GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $35,508 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD I…CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF…AURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $15,000 · Human ServicesAURORA COMMUNITY C…NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL SPORTS …The YESS Institute: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsThe YESS Institu…JOHN & FLORENCE FORTUNE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyJOHN & FLOR…GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN …DENVER KIDS INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$126,500Youth Development$85,500Human Services$65,508Recreation & Sports$60,000Philanthropy$40,000Education$15,000Crime & Legal$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $50,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $35,508 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN & FLORENCE FORTUNE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSHAKA FRANKLIN FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH: $15,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe YESS Institute: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMake A Chess Move: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAURORA COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDENVER KAPPA ALPHA PSI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCommunity Athletic Soccer Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…Denver Broncos Founda…Schlessman Foundation…The Anschutz Foundati…Rose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationXcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …The Denver Children's…Latino Community Foun…
The Denver FoundationCO28.3× affinity12 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 · Denver Broncos Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Children's Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado 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 Denver Broncos Alumni Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denver Broncos Alumni Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Denver Broncos Alumni Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Denver Broncos Alumni Charities 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 19 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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