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Denver Broncos Foundation

The Denver Broncos Foundation is committed to making a positive impact on future generations by creating a "game plan" for life through youth health and wellness initiatives, dynamic in and out of school programming, and access to career pathways.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
164
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$535k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$3.7MEducation$1.8MEmployment$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.2MHealth$969kRecreation & Sports$799kFood & Nutrition$524kHuman Services$473kOther$0
02FY2024 · 164 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 164 grants below total $5,229,139, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,028,167 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $799,028 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

  • Under $10k51 grants · $324k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc$534,633
Caf Momentum Denver Corporation$250,000
Momentum Advisory Collective$250,000
KABOOM$175,000
Second Wind Fund Inc$150,000
Denver Scholarship Foundation$150,000
Aurora Public Schools Foundation$100,000
Playworks Education Energized$100,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$100,000
Colorado UpLift$100,000
City Year Inc$100,000
Mizel Institute$100,000
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc$75,000
Clothes To Kids of Denver Inc$75,000
Mental Health Center of Denver dba WellPower$75,000
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, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Juntos: $5k → 22%The Arc of Ventura County Inc: $5k → 10%A Precious Child: $32k → 5%YouthZone: $20k → 8%Aurora Community Connection: $15k → 8%Southern Colorado Community Action Agency Inc: $8k → 12%The RisnerUp Foundation: $40k → 17%A Precious Child: $8k → 5%Village Exchange Center: $10k → 8%A Precious Child: $6k → 5%The Matthews House: $10k → 11%Denver Area Youth Services: $55k → 7%Denver Area Youth Services: $26k → 7%Diakonia: $5k → 9%Attention Inc dba TGTHR: $10k → 12%Diakonia: $5k → 9%Colorado Futuretek Inc: $10k → 12%Lubird's Light Foundation: $10k → 12%Denver Indian Center Inc: $10k → 12%18th Juvenile District Assessment Center: $30k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $5k → 8%Young People in Recovery: $5k → 12%Activate Work Inc: $10k → 12%Denver Rescue Mission: $15k → 12%Clothes to Kids of Denver: $75k → 12%Clothes To Kids of Denver Inc: $75k → 12%Wish for Wheels: $32k → 12%18th Judicial District Juvenile Assessment Center: $50k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado: $6k → 12%SafeHouse Denver: $8k → 12%Sun Valley Youth Center: $30k → 12%Sun valley Youth Center: $15k → 12%Denver Police Foundation: $5k → 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

ID
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 72 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

72 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
117

Total granted

$8.5M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • SW
    SECOND WIND FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +35%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +16%
  • CU
    COLORADO UPLIFT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $106k
  • CS
    COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +9%
  • PD
    Playworks Denver
    one grant, 2017 · $66k
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 Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
2
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
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 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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5
Denver Youth Program

Youth counseling and mentoring.

Youth Development
6
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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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
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
9
Colorado Thrives

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

Community Improvement
10
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
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
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 Heart and Hand Center Inc. 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

193 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. 193 of the 279 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
190/193
Grantees still filing
102/193
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $1,008,681 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO DENVER: $415,675 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO DENVERAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $252,440 · OtherPROJECT PAVE: $206,500 · OtherDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $204,840 · OtherCITY YEAR INC: $200,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250,000 · Other+95 more: $3,184,411 · Other+95 moreSECOND WIND FUND INC: $300,000 · EducationSECOND WIND FUND …COLORADO UPLIFT INC: $200,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT I…DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHI…READING PARTNERS: $150,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERSEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $147,360 · EducationEMILY GRIFFITH FO…COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationCOLORADO SCHOOL O…DENVER HYBRID COLLEGE: $95,000 · EducationDENVER HYBRID COL…COLLEGE TRACK: $80,000 · EducationOUT TEACH: $75,000 · EducationFood For Thought Denver: $58,320 · Education+22 more: $374,850 · Education+22 moreMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE: $750,000 · Crime & LegalMOMENTUM ADVI…CAFE MOMENTUM DENVER CORPORATION: $250,000 · Crime & LegalCAFE MOMENTUM…THE URBAN FARM: $150,000 · Crime & LegalTHE URBAN FAR…PROJECT PAVE INC: $115,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT PAVE …+3 more: $80,500 · Crime & Legal+3 morePLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS ED…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORP…GOOD SPORTS INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS …MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $142,280 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER…SCIENCE OF SPORT: $127,100 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE OF S…YEAR ONE INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentYEAR ONE INCCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO YOU…SIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIMS-FAYOLA …+15 more: $189,600 · Youth Development+15 moreCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesDENVER AREA YOUTH SERVICES: $81,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE ASSESSMENT CENTER: $80,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $46,400 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesRISNER UP FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesWish for Wheels Inc: $32,186 · Human Services+15 more: $158,500 · Human ServicesKABOOM INC: $175,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $121,830 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsEvery Kid Sports: $63,000 · Recreation & SportsRoss Initiative in Sports for Equality: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $20,104 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsMental Health Center of Denver: $150,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $65,935 · HealthMILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE: $25,000 · HealthKhesed Wellness a Colorado Nonprofit DBA Kind Therapy Inc: $25,000 · HealthProject Helping: $16,750 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $15,000 · Health
Other$5,722,547Education$1,730,530Crime & Legal$1,345,500Youth Development$1,263,980Human Services$638,086Recreation & Sports$514,934Health$297,685

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $1,008,681 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE: $750,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC: $300,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $255,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM DENVER CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKABOOM INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation: $156,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $155,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $150,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE URBAN FARM: $150,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $147,360 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $142,280 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $135,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE OF SPORT: $127,100 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $122,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $121,830 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT PAVE INC: $115,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetYEAR ONE INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER HYBRID COLLEGE: $95,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER AREA YOUTH SERVICES: $81,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUVENILE ASSESSMENT CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOUT TEACH: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDress for Success Denver: $75,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $65,935 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEvery Kid Sports: $63,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $58,320 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $46,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISNER UP FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetRoss Initiative in Sports for Equality: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $40,000 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.

Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationCaring for Colorado F…Daniels FundCaring for Denver Fou…The Anschutz Foundati…Schlessman Foundation…Mile High United Way …
Rose Community FoundationCO113.4× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Daniels Fund · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Mile High United Way 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denver Broncos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
78report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Denver Broncos Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Denver Broncos 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 279 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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